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On 29 January 2019, His Beatitude Patriarch John X of Antioch and All the East arrived in Moscow to take part in the celebrations marking the 10th anniversary of Primatial ministry of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia.

His Beatitude Patriarch John X is accompanied by Metropolitan Basilyos of Akkar; Metropolitan Jacques of Buenos Aires and All Argentina; Archimandrite Parthenios (Allati), Private Secretary to His Beatitude Patriarch John X; Deacon Meletius Shattahi, staff member of the Patriarchate of Antioch; and Mr. Raymond Rizk, Mr. Hassan Risheh and Mr. Georges Ghandour, representatives of the youth movement of the Orthodox Church of Antioch. Hegumen Arseniy (Sokolov), representative of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia to the Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, arrived in Moscow together with the delegation of the Orthodox Church of Antioch.

Meeting His Beatitude Patriarch John X at the Vnukovo-3 Airport were Metropolitan Niphon of Philippopolis, representative of the Patriarch of Antioch and All the East to the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia; Metropolitan Feofan of Kazan and Tatarstan; Archbishop Feofilakt of Pyatogorsk and Cherkessk; and Hegumen Feofan (Lukianov), head of the Protocol Service of the Department for External Church Relations.

DECR Communication Service