Donetsk, October 17, 2010
On 16 October 2010, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, visited Donetsk, Ukraine, on his way from Tbilisi to Moscow.
The DECR chairman and his suite were met at the airport by Metropolitan Ilarion of Donetsk and Mariupol.
The hierarchs discussed a visit of Metropolitan Hilarion to Ukraine due to take place in November with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia and at the invitation of His Beatitude Metropolitan Vladimir of Kiev and All Ukraine.