Russian Orthodox prelate meets with Pope

October 22, 2015

Pope Francis has met with a leading Russian Orthodox prelate who, in a fiery address, urged the Synod of Bishops to battle secular ideology.

The meeting between the Pope and Metropolitan Hilarion, the chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department of External Church Relations, took place on October 21 in the Domus Sanctae Marthae.

The patriarchate stated that the two discussed “bilateral relations of the Roman Catholic Church and the Moscow Patriarchate, as well as the situation in the Middle East, where Christians have been persecuted by the terrorist groups.”

 

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Further information:

• Metropolitan Hilarion Meets With Pope Francis (Moscow Patriarchate)
• In fiery speech, Russian Orthodox representative urges Synod to battle secular ideology (CWN, 10/21)