In Washington, DC
for the May 10-13 World Summit in Defense of Persecuted Christians,
convened by the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, Metropolitan
Hilarion (Alfeyev), the head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for
External Church Relations, told TASS on Thursday that His Holiness Patriarch Kirill could visit America sometime in the near future.
“I really think the patriarch’s visit to the US is somewhere on the
horizon,” the metropolitan stated, noting that the primate has already
visited all of the autocephalous Local Orthodox Churches except for the
Orthodox Church in America, currently under the leadership of His
Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon. Such a trip would be Patriarch Kirill’s
first to America, and would be especially noteworthy as it was the
Moscow Patriarchate that granted autocephaly to the Orthodox Church in
America in 1970.
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