President of Inter-Parliament Assembly of Orthodoxy visits Damascus representation of Russian Orthodox Church

On January 17, 2019, the President of the Inter-Parliament Assembly of Orthodoxy and Russian State Duma member, S. A. Gavrilov, visited the Damascus representation of the Russian Orthodox Church.

The Russian parliament member attended a thanksgiving celebrated at the representation’s church of St. Ignatius the God-bearer by its rector, Hegumen Arseny (Sokolov), representative of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia to the Patriarch of Great Antioch and All the East.

Mr. Gavrilov presented the representation church a bell cast in Voronezh according to a special technology.

After that, Mr. Gavrilov had a talk with Hegumen Arseny at the representation’s receptions hall to discuss issues of mutual concern.

DECR Communication Service