Vatican
City, 14 December 2013 (VIS) – Cardinal Kurt Koch, president of the
Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, will visit St.
Petersburg and Moscow in the Russian Federation from 14 to 19
December, to meet with various representatives of the Orthodox Church
and the Catholic Church.
The
cardinal will be received by the Patriarch Kirill II of Moscow and
all Russia, and will also encounter the Metropolitan Hilarion,
chairman of the Department of External Church Relations of the
Patriarchate of Moscow, who was received in audience by Pope Francis
on 12 November. In the Moscow Theological Academy the cardinal will
speak at a conference on the progress made in dialogue between
Catholics and Orthodox, and will visit the monastery of Lavre
Alexander Venski, which will celebrate its third centenary this year.
During
his visit to the Russian Federation, upon invitation by Archbishop
Paolo Pezzi, ordinary of the Catholic archdiocese of the Mother of
God in Moscow, Cardinal Koch will preside at the jubilee
commemoration of the Basilica of St. Catherine of Alexandria in St.
Petersburg and will speak with Catholic clergy within the framework
of pastoral encounters dedicated to Vatican Council II and ecumenical
dialogue.
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