Metropolitan Kirill receives Bishop Vincenco Paglia

Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations, gave dinner on March 28, 2006, in honour of Bishop Vincenzo Paglia, president of the Italian Bishops’ Conference Commission on Ecumenism and Dialogue, Roman Catholic Church.

They discussed prospects for further cooperation between the Russian Orthodox Church and St. Egidio Community, a Catholic peace and charity organization, of which Bishop Paglia is spiritual director.

Participating in the meeting were also Prof. Adriano Roccucci, St. Egidio Community general secretary, and Rev. Igor Vyzhanov, DECR secretary for inter-Christian relations.