on blessing Vladimir Gundyaev the chairman Department of external church relations the Moscow Patriarchy the metropolitan Volokolamsk Illarion arrived on June 24, 2018 to gorod Afiny. On June 25 in Ministry foreign affairs Grecheskoye Republics Grigory Alfeev met the deputy minister of foreign affairs Greece Amanatidis I..
Welcoming the hierarch RO Russian Orthodox church, Amanatidis I. thanked Illarion's Grigory Alfeev for constructive a contribution in work the Athenian forum on interreligious pluralism in Near East (on October 30-31, 2017), and also emphasized importance of participation of the representative of the Moscow Patriarchy in the 25th General Inter-parliamentary assembly of Orthodoxy. The deputy of chapter Ministry foreign affairs Grecheskoye Republics expressed also satisfaction concerning recent visit of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of this country Nikos Kodzias to Moscow within which the meeting of the Greek delegation with Vladimir Gundyaev took place .
In return the chairman of OVTsS noted importance of such regular meetings for maintenance of the brotherly relations between Russian and Greek the people which connect unity of belief and centuries-old historical bonds. The parties also concerned a number of questions of the interorthodox agenda.
Grigory Alfeev transferred toAmanatidis I. a memento.
employees of OVTsS participated In a meeting the priest Churyakov Anatoly and iyerodiakon Grigory (Sokolov), the employee of Embassy Russian Federation to Greece Kalaydov F. A., and also the Greek diplomats the secretary of Department of external church relations on the interorthodox relations the archpriest Yakimchuk Igor.
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