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Patriarch Kirill to visit Constantinople in late August

Moscow, August 6, 2018

His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia will travel to Constantinople to visit His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew on August 31, reports the site of the Russian Orthodox Church.

The two primates last met at the meeting of the primates of the autocephalous Orthodox Churches held in Chambésy, Switzerland January 22-27, 2016.

They have also met several other times, at various meetings of the primates and during personal visits to one another’s Churches.

The agenda for the upcoming meeting is currently being worked out, according to Fr. Nikolai Balashov, the Deputy Chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate's Department for External Church Relations.

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8/6/2018

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