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Published by the Moscow Patriarchate, May 14, 2004

 A delegation of the Russian Church Outside Russia arriving in Moscow

Moscow Patriarchate, May 14, 2004 -Metropolitan Laurus of Eastern America and New York Diocese, Chairman of the Bishops' Council of the Russian Church Outside Russia, has arrived in Moscow on May 14, 2004, for his first official visit. Metropolitan Laurus is accompanied by Archbishop Kyrill of San Francisco and Western American Diocese and members of the official delegation as well as a pilgrim group of the Church Outside Russia clergy from USA, Australia and Germany. Other members of the delegation including Archbishop Mark of Berlin and Germany will come to Moscow later.

At the airport, the delegation of the Russian Church Outside Russia was met by Metropolitan Juvenaly of Krutitsy and Kolomna, Archbishop Innocent of Korsun, chairman of the Synodal Commission for Dialogue with the Russian Church Outside Russia, staff members of the DECR and representatives of the Moscow clergy.

In the course of their visit to Russia, the delegation of the Russian Church Outside Russia will meet with His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Russia, attend Patriarchal divine services, venerate shrines in Moscow, visit St. Sergius's Laura of the Trinity, make a pilgrimage to Yekaterinburg, Diveyevo, St. Petersburg and Kursk.
 

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