On February 20, 2023, in Springfield, Virginia, at the temporary chancery of the Orthodox Church in America, its Primate, His Beatitude Tikhon, Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada, received at his request the Chancellor of the Patriarchal Parishes in the USA and rector of St. Nicholas Cathedral in New York, Archpriest Igor Vyzhanov.
During the conversation, Archpriest I. Vyzhanov thanked His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon for the honor of meeting him at the beginning of his ministry in the United States of America and expressed his readiness to do everything possible to strengthen fraternal relations between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Orthodox Church in America. His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon told the recently appointed Chancellor of the Patriarchal Parishes in the USA about the current development of Orthodox life on the American continent and gave his blessing for his further labors.
Taking part in the meeting were the Vice-Chancellor of the Patriarchal Parishes in the USA, Priest Mark Rashkov; the Secretary of the Orthodox Church in America, Priest Alessandro Margheritino; and the senior assistant to the Chancellor of the Orthodox Church in America, Priest John Mikitish.
