The meeting, which will take place in the Grand Kremlin Palace, will be a unique event in that for the first time ever it brings together the heads and senior clergy of the 15 Orthodox Churches: the Patriarchates and Orthodox Churches of Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, Jerusalem, Russia, Georgia, Serbia, Albania, Romania, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Poland, the Czech lands, Slovakia and Greece, as well as the Russian Orthodox Church in America. Between them, they unite more than 227 million believers.
The event testifies to the recognition of Russia’s and the Russian Orthodox Church’s contribution to developing modern civilisation and preserving moral foundations.
The meeting participants will discuss interfaith matters as well as current international events of interest to Orthodox communities in various parts of the world.