« The Administrator of the Patriarchal Parishes in the United States met with the First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia »

On September 25, 2019 a meeting  between Bishop Matthew of Sourozh, temporarily Administrator of the Patriarchal Parishes in the USA and Canada, and Metropolitan Hilarion of East America and New York, was held at the residence of the First Hierarch of the ROCOR in New York.

Bishop Matthew presented to Vladyka the First Hierarch, as a gift, the Chronicle of the Diveyevo Monastery, published in English in the Diocese of Sourozh, as well as the original photograph of the 1981 Bishops' Council of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia from the Historic Images archive.  

The archpastors discussed a number of issues relating to the interaction of the Eastern American Diocese and the Patriarchal Parishes.

The meeting was attended by the cleric of St. Nicholas Cathedral in New York, hegumen Nicodemus (Balyasnikov) and Bishop Matthew' personal secretary N.V.  Trubnikov.

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