On June 28, 2019, while in Greece, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, met in Thessaloniki with Patriarch Theodore of Alexandria and All Africa.
The participants in the meeting, held at Makedonia Palace Hotel, exchanged opinions on various issues pertaining to the bilateral relations between the Orthodox Church of Alexandria and the Russian Orthodox Church, as well to the inter-Orthodox relations.
That same day Metropolitan Hilarion took part in a ceremony of blessing an office building belonging to Atlantis Pak Company, with its restoration funded by entrepreneur Ivan Savvidi.
The ceremony was led by Patriarch Theodore of Alexandria and All Africa. Among those present were Metropolitans Anthimos of Thessaloniki, Dimitrios of Irinoupolis and Georgios of Guinea; clerics of the Metropolis of Thessaloniki of the Greek Orthodox Church; as well as the DECR staff members accompanying Metropolitan Hilarion: Archpriest Igor Yakimchuk, secretary for inter-Orthodox relations, and Hieromonk Grigory (Sokolov).
Source: Patriarchate of Moscow
