MR SERGEY CHEREMIN, MINISTER OF THE MOSCOW CITY GOVERNMENT VISITS THE PATRIARCHATE

On Friday, February 4/17, 2023, His Excellency Mr Sergey Cheremin, Minister of the Moscow City Government and Head of the Moscow City foreign economic and international relations Department, accompanied by the Ambassador of Russia in Tel Aviv, Mr Viktorov, under the Head of the Russian Mission to Jerusalem (MISSIA) Archimandrite Alexander and under other diplomatic and ecclesiastical agents, visited His Beatitude, our Father and Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos.

In the context of this meeting, His Beatitude repeated His prayer for the unity and communion in Christ of the brotherly Orthodox Churches through dialogue.

The Ambassador of Russia, Mr Viktorov, informed His Beatitude about the meeting, which he held after the Israeli politician, and former member of the Government, Mr Tzachi Hanegbi, and the discussion with him about His Beatitude’s work to support the Christian Community and safeguarding the property of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem and all Christians in the Holy Land.

From Secretariat-General