Archbishop Demetrios of America welcomes His Eminence Metropolitan Hilarion

[Worldwide Faith News]

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June 10, 2008

Contact: Stavros Papagermanos
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ARCHBISHOP DEMETRIOS WELCOMES METROPOLITAN HILARION,
FIRST HIERARCH OF ROCOR

New York, NY -- On Monday June 9th, Archbishop Demetrios of America 
welcomed His Eminence Metropolitan Hilarion, the newly enthroned 
First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR) 
at the Archdiocese Headquarters in New York City. This meeting 
between the two Primates follows on a new relationship between the 
Churches occasioned by the reunification of ROCOR with the Moscow 
Patriarchate in May of 2007. Archbishop Demetrios had already sent a 
congratulatory letter to Metropolitan Hilarion after his election as 
First Hierarch (Primate) of ROCOR, which also invited him to the Archdiocese.

Metropolitan Hilarion was accompanied by the Very Rev. Protopriest 
Alexander Lebedeff, Secretary of Inter-Orthodox Relations. During the 
90 minute meeting with the Archbishop, who is also the Chairman of 
the Standing Conference of the Canonical Orthodox Bishops in the 
Americas (SCOBA), the discussions focused around the new reality of 
ROCOR in the Pan-Orthodox environment of America. Also present at the 
meeting were the Chancellor of the Archdiocese, Bishop Savas of 
Troas, Father Mark Arey, Director of Inter-Orthodox Relations and 
Archdeacon Pandeleimon Papadopoulos.

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