Decisions and agreements, as well as details on where and when such a meeting will take place, “are the exclusive competence of the highest ecclesiastical authorities in Moscow and the Vatican”, said Julio Antonio Garmendia Peña, the country’s ambassador. Latin American in Russia. , said in an interview with Russian media.
“We know that in recent years the two Churches have discussed the possibility of repeating this meeting, however, such decisions and agreements fall within the exclusive competence of the highest ecclesiastical authorities in Moscow and the Vatican, especially with regard to the place, time and others. details of the meeting,” the diplomat said in response to a question from Russian media about the existence of a dialogue between Moscow and the Vatican with Havana on the issue of a second meeting of religious leaders and whether such a meeting could be repeated in Cuba. . The 2016 meeting in Havana between Pope Francis and Patriarch Cyril was described by the Cuban ambassador as “an unprecedented event in modern history”.
In 2016 pass historic meeting of Patriarch Cyril and Pope Francis in Cuba. The heads of the Churches have adopted a fairly common declaration in which said they were in mourning on the “confrontation in Ukraine” and called on the parties to “actively maintain peace”. Then the Russian patriarch engaged tour in Latin America. However, there were no other contacts: neither the project in summer meeting of Pope Francis and Patriarch Cyril in Israel, nor autumn In Kazakhstan.
In February 2023, Metropolitan Anthony of Volokolamsk, Chairman of the Department of External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate informed that preparations for a new meeting between Pope Francis and Patriarch Cyril are not currently underway. He added that the Russian Orthodox Church “has always been ready” for such a meeting.
March 13, 2023 Ambassador of Cuba Julio Antonio Garmendia Peña encounter Metropolitan Anthony of Volokolamsk, Chairman of the Department of External Church Relations of the Patriarchate of Moscow. The ROC reported that during the meeting, “close ties between the peoples of Russia and Cuba, the hierarchy of the Russian Orthodox Church and the leadership of the Cuban Republic” were noted, and matters of interest mutual were discussed.
Read more about what happened to the ROC in 2022 in the Russian media material.
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