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Delegation of the Russian Orthodox Church in the Holy Land
An official delegation of the Russian Orthodox Church, led by Metropolitan Kirill, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations, came to the Holy Land on November 21, 2005, for the enthronement of His Beatitude Theophilus III as Patriarch of the Holy City of Jerusalem and All Palestine.
The delegation, which included Archpriest Nikolay Balashov, DECR secretary for inter-Orthodox relations, and Deacons Sergiy Govorun and Sergiy Ulanov of the DECR staff, was met at the airport by Metropolitan Timotheos of Bostra, Russian Ambassador to Israel G. Tarasov and the head of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Jerusalem, Archimandrite Yelisey (Ganaba)...