Documents worked out by the joint meetings of the Moscow Patriarchate commission for dialogue with the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia and the Russian Church Outside Russia commission for negotiations with the Moscow Patriarchate

In accordance with the decisions of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Bishops’ Synod of the Russian Church Outside Russia, published below are the Act of Canonical Communion and the Supplement to it. These documents have been worked out together by the Moscow Patriarchate commission for dialogue with the Russian Church Outside Russia and the Russian Church Outside Russia commission for negotiations with the Moscow Patriarchates. Both texts are approved by the Supreme Authorities of the Moscow Patriarchate and the Russian Church Outside Russia.

Other documents were published earlier, on June 21, 2005. They were drafted by the commissions and approved by the Holy Synod of the Moscow Patriarchate and the Bishops’ Synod of the Russian Church Outside Russia.

In connection with the fact that the Moscow Patriarchate commission for dialogue with the Russian Church Outside Russia and the Russian Church Outside Russia commission for negotiations with the Moscow Patriarchate have completed the consideration of the list of subjects proposed for their work by the Supreme Authorities of the Moscow Patriarchate and Russian Church Outside Russia in May 2004 during the visit of the First Hierarch of the Russian Church Outside Russia, Metropolitan Laurus, to Moscow, the 8^th joint meeting of the commissions, which took place from October 24 to 26, 2006, in Cologne, drafted a document ‘On the Results of the Joint Work of the Commissions of the Moscow Patriarchate and the Russian Church Outside Russia’.