His Beatitude Patriarch John X of Antioch and All the East completes his visit to Moscow
On 3 February 2019, His Beatitude Patriarch John X, who had attended the celebrations marking the 10th anniversary of the primatial ministry of His Holiness Kirill, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, completed his visit to Russia.
Accompanying His Beatitude were Metropolitan Basilyos of Akkar; Metropolitan Jacques of Buenos Aires and All Argentina; Metropolitan Niphon of Philippopolis, representative of the Patriarch of Antioch to the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia; 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.
His Beatitude Patriarch John X and his delegation were seen off at the airport by Metropolitan Niphon of Philippopolis; Metropolitan Feofan of Kazan and Tatarstan; Archbishop Feofilakt of Pyatogorsk and Cherkessk; Archpriest Nikolai Balashov, deputy chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations (DECR); Hegumen Arseniy (Sokolov), representative of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia to the Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, and Hegumen Feofan (Lukianov), head of the DECR Protocol Section.