On July 11, 2021, a meeting took place in New York between the Chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, and His Beatitude Tikhon, Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada. The meeting took place after the Divine Liturgy at St. Nicholas Patriarchal Cathedral, at which the DECR chairman concelebrated with the Primate of the Orthodox Church in America.
During the conversation, a wide range of issues concerning the development of cooperation between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Orthodox Church in America was discussed, as well as current topics in inter-Orthodox relations. The parties exchanged information on how the Church met the challenge of the coronavirus pandemic in Russia and in other countries of the canonical territory of the Moscow Patriarchate, as well as in America and Canada.
At the end of the meeting, Metropolitan Hilarion congratulated His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon on his 55th birthday and wished him God’s help in bearing his primatial ministry.