Pope Francis receives Russian Orthodox Metropolitan Hilarion
Vatican City, 13 Nov 2013: Pope Francis received on Tuesday in audience in the Vatican
Metropolitan Hilarion, head of the Department of External Church Relations of the
Russian Orthodox Church. The Pope’s meeting with Metropolitan Hilarion comes as the
Archbishop of Milan, Cardinal Angelo Scola, is in Moscow, meeting with the head of
the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill.
Later in the evening a "Concert
for Peace" in honor of Pope Francis, was offered by the Russian Orthodox Church, with
music sung by a young Russian opera singer, Svetlana Kasyan, at the Auditorium in
Via della Conciliazione in Rome. Source: VIS