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On 27 May 2010, His Holiness Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople who is on an official visit to the Russian Orthodox Church, departed for St. Petersburg.

The Primate of the Orthodox Church of Constantinople and his suite were seen off at ‘Vnukovo-3’ airport by Archbishop Arseny of Istra; secretary of Moscow Patriarchate for the Institutions Abroad Archbishop Mark of Yegorievsk, chairman of the Synodal Department for Ministry in Prisons Bishop Irinarkh of Krasnogorsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Financial and Economic administration Bishop Tikhon of Podolsk, chairman of the Synodal Department for Relations with the Cossacks Bishop Kirill of Pavlovsky Posad, deans of the Moscow church districts, and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Greek Republic to the Russian Federation M. Spinellis.