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On 26 January 2013, the last day of his visit to the Russian Orthodox Church, His Holiness and Beatitude Catholicos-Patriarch Iliya II met with Georgian Diaspora and representatives of youth wing of the Unit of Georgians in Russia at the conference hall of the Ukraina Hotel.

Then the Primate of the Georgian Orthodox Church accompanied by the members of his delegation departed for the Vnukovo airport. His Holiness and Beatitude Catholicos-Patriarch Iliya II was seen off by Metropolitan Juvenaly of Krutitsy and Kolomna; Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations; Archbishop Arseny of Istra; Archbishop Mark of Yegorievsk, head of the Administration for Moscow Patriarchate’s Institutions Abroad; archpriest Nikolai Balashov, DECR vice-chairman; archpriest Igor Yakimchuk, DECR secretary for inter-Orthodox relations; DECR staff members; and Moscow clerics.