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Head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Administration for Institutions Abroad meets in Beijing with Russia’s Ambassador
On 16 August 2016, upon completing his working visit to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Bishop Antony of Bogorodsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Administration for Institutions Abroad, arrived in Beijing.
The Russian hierarch visited Russia’s Embassy, where he had a meeting with Mr. Andrei Denisov, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the People’s Republic of China.
The participants in the meeting discussed, among other things, the activities of the Orthodox Church of the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos, located in the territory of the Russian diplomatic representation in Beijing.
On August 16, Bishop Antony celebrated his name day. To mark this occasion, he said a thanksgiving to St Anthony the Roman, Wonderworker of Novgorod, at the Church of the Holy Dormition. Concelebrating with His Grace were Rev. Sergiy Voronin, rector of the church, and deacon Igor Tsarev, a cleric of the Moscow Church of the Nativity of St John the Baptist at Presnya.
That same day in the evening Bishop Antony left for Moscow, website of the Church of the Holy Great Martyr Catherine in Rome reports.
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