ROCOR and Antoch of US Meeting MP

In the spiritual and administrative center of the Antioch Patriarchate in the United States of America, a meeting was held between the temporary head of the Patriarchal parishes in the United States, Bishop of Sourozh, Matthew, and the Russian Consul General in New York, S.К. Ovsyannikov with the head of the Archdiocese of Antioch in this country, Metropolitan Joseph. The meeting was also attended by Archpriest Thomas Zayn, Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Antioch, Priest Mark Rashkov, Cleric of the Nicholas Patriarchal Cathedral in New York, Vice-Consul Alexey Topolsky, and Bishop Matthew Personal Secretary Nikolai Trubnikov. After the exchange of Easter greetings, the hierarchs discussed various issues of interaction between the Antioch Church and the parishes of the Moscow Patriarchate in the United States, and also exchanged views on the recent actions of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, which damaged the pan-Orthodox unity. Metropolitan Joseph asked Bishop Matthew and SK Ovsyannikov to convey heartfelt gratitude to His Holiness Patriarch Kirill and President of Russia V.V. Putin for the full support given to the people of Syria. The meeting participants also discussed the program of the visit of the representative delegation of the Archdiocese of Antioch in the USA headed by Metropolitan Joseph to the Russian Orthodox Church, scheduled for May of this year. At the end of the conversation, the interlocutors exchanged gifts.