His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia begins his primatial visit to Ukraine

26/7/2012 His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia arrived in Ukraine on July 26, 2012. The official delegation of the Russian Orthodox Church accompanying His Holiness includes Metropolitan Varsonofiy of Saransk and Mordovia, chancellor of the Moscow Patriarchate; Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations (DECR); Bishop Sergiy of Solnechnogorsk, head of the Administrative Secretariat of the Moscow Patriarchate; archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, chairman of the Synodal Department for Church-State Relations; Mr