Moscow Patriarchate visits Kosovo-Metohija

Head of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations Archbishop Hilarion of Volokolamsk has stated in Gracanica that he had come to pay tribute to one of the oldest cradles of the Orthodox Christianity, where big historic events took place.

Hilarion who is on a several-day visit to the Eparchy of Raska and Prizren of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Kosovo and Metohija, said that the Russian orthodox Church had always been and will always be together with the SPC in all of its times of trouble.

He called on the Gracanica Monastery monks and nuns not leave this land and temples, because, as he explained, for as long as they are there, the Orthodox religion will be preserved.

The guest from Russia was welcomed by Bishop Artemije at the Pristina airport.

Artemije evaluated that the visit by the guest from Russia is an evidence of his love and care for the Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija and that they will try to inform Ilarion about the true state of affairs in the field in order for him to be able to inform the Russian patriarch.

 
Source: Tanjug