Metropolitan Anthony of Volokolamsk and the members of the Russian delegation in Karlsruhe met with the delegation of the Coptic Church during the 11th Assembly of the World Council of Churches.
The meeting took place in a hotel next to the Assembly facilities where most of the Churches’ delegations have stayed, but not the Russian one.
According to the announcement issued by the Department of External Church Relations of the Patriarchate of Moscow, the representatives of the two Churches discussed issues related to the further development of their relations and issues related to the work of the World Council of Churches.