Primates of the Serbian and Russian Orthodox Churches meet

His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia met with the Primate of the Serbian Orthodox Church, His Holiness Serbian Patriarch Irinej, at the Patriarchal Synodal residence in the St. Daniel stauropegiаl Monastery in Moscow on 29 January 2019.

The audience was attended by the delegation of the Serbian Orthodox Church: Bishop Irinej of Backa, Bishop Antonije of Moravica - head of the Representation of the Serbian Orthodox Church at the Moscow Patriarchate, Bishop Stefan of Remesiana - Vicar Bishop of the Serbian Patrisrch, Bishop Isihije of Moravica – Vicar Bishop of the Bishop of Backa, archpriest Vladan Simic - Secretary of the Bishop of Backa, and hypodeacon Dejan Nakic - personal secretary of the Serbian Patriarch.

On the side of the Russian Orthodox Church the meeting was attended by the President of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate (DECR) Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, Metropolitan Sergiy of Singapore and South East Asia, Bishop of Ostrogon and Rososhan Andrew, deputy president of the DECR archpriest Nikolai Balashov, head of the Representation of the Russian Orthodox Church in Belgrade archpriest Vitaly Tarasyev, Secretary of the DECR for international relations archpriest Igor Yakimchuk and DECR associate A. Hoshev.