The visiting Metropolitan of Volokolamsk, His Eminence Hilarion, on Monday met with the Russian ambassador to Israel, Anatoli Viktarov, at the seat of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Jerusalem.
His Eminence Hilarion, who is also the chairman of the chairman of the Department of External Church Relations, thanked the ambassador for the active cooperation between the embassy and the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Jerusalem.
Among others, the situation of Christians in the Holy Land and throughout the wider Middle East, was discussed.