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Primate of the Polish Orthodox Church receives in audience the DECR vice-chairman and a delegation of the Foundation for Support of Christian Culture and Heritage

Primate of the Polish Orthodox Church receives in audience the DECR vice-chairman and a delegation of the Foundation for Support of Christian Culture and Heritage
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11 December 2021 year 13:23

On December 10, 2021, His Beatitude Metropolitan Sava of Warsaw and All Poland received in audience Archpriest Nikolay Balashov, vice-chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, and a delegation of the Foundation for Support of Christian Culture and Heritage led by the Foundation’s executive director, Ye. I. Skopenko. 

Archpriest Nikolay Balashov warmly greeted the Primate of the Polish Orthodox Church on behalf of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia and the DECR chairman, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk. 

His Beatitude Sava, in his turn, conveyed reciprocal greetings to His Holiness and the DECR chairman, expressing satisfaction with the successful progress of the work carried out with the help of the Foundation to adorn the interior of the St. Sophia Church in Warsaw visited by the delegation the day before. In their cordial talk, they dealt with a wide range of pressing problems of inter-Orthodox relations and cooperation between the Russian and Serbian Orthodox Churches in the sphere of culture. 

They were joined in their talk by Archpriest Adam Semeniuk, rector of the St. Sophia Church;  Archpriest Andrey Levchak, chief prison chaplain of the Polish Orthodox Church; A. Yu. Khoshev, a staff member of the DECR Secretariat for Inter-Orthodox Relations; and staff members of the Foundation. 

Archpriest Nikolay Balashov, accompanied by Archpriest Andrey Levchak, visited the Cathedral of St. Mary Magdalene and the Church of St. John Climacus in the Wola district in Warsaw, located in the Orthodox cemetery where many archpastors and clergy of the Diocese of Warsaw of various times are buried.

DECR Communication Service/Patriarchia.ru

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