The meeting of the Pope of the Roman Francis and the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Cyril will be more convenient to spend after Easter. About this RIA Novosti told the chairman of the Department of External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate Metropolitan Volokolamsky Hilarion.
At the same time, he clarified that “the exact time remains to be coordinated.” In 2022, Orthodox celebrate Easter on April 24, Catholics – April 17th.
Earlier, Hilarion said that the third country is considered as a place of meeting the Pope and Patriarch. He noted that Kirill does not plan a visit to the Vatican. At the same time, Francis Francis emphasized the readiness to negotiate with Patriarch Kirill in Russia. “I am always ready to go to Moscow. To keep a dialogue with my brother, I don’t need protocols: Brother is a brother,” said the head of the Catholic Church.
If the meeting of the high priests will take place, it will become the second for almost a thousand years after the great split that occurred in 1054. The first meeting between the Patriarch of the Moscow and the head of the Roman Catholic Church took place in February 2016 in Cuba.