Primate of the Orthodox Church in America visits the Department for External Church Relations

On January 17^th, 2011, His Beatitude Jonah, Archbishop of Washington and Metropolitan of All America and Canada, currently on a visit to the Russian Orthodox Church, visited the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations (DECR).

The DECR chairman, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, told him about the work of the oldest Synodal institution of the Russian Orthodox Church and of his predecessors.

Discussed were Interconfessional dialogue and common Orthodox problems.

Attending the meeting were Bishop Melchizedek of Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania (Orthodox Church in America); Bishop Aleksandr of Dmitrov; archimandrite Zaccaeus (Wood), representative of the OCA to the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia; archpriest Nikolai Balashov, DECR deputy chairman; and Rev. Igor Yakimchuk, DECR secretary for inter-Orthodox Relations. 

On January 17^th, 2011, His Beatitude Jonah, Archbishop of Washington and Metropolitan of All America and Canada, currently on a visit to the Russian Orthodox Church, visited the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations (DECR).

The DECR chairman, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, told him about the work of the oldest Synodal institution of the Russian Orthodox Church and of his predecessors.

Discussed were Interconfessional dialogue and common Orthodox problems.

Attending the meeting were Bishop Melchizedek of Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania (Orthodox Church in America); Bishop Aleksandr of Dmitrov; archimandrite Zaccaeus (Wood), representative of the OCA to the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia; archpriest Nikolai Balashov, DECR deputy chairman; and Rev. Igor Yakimchuk, DECR secretary for inter-Orthodox Relations.