Thursday, September 13, 2007

Partiarch Alexey awards Catholic Bishop for "establishing good relations between Russian Orthodox and Catholic Churches"

(Official web-site of Moscow Patriarchate – Vertograd, Moscow)

Partiarch Alexey awarded the official representative of Vatican in Russian Federation Catholic Archbishop Antonio Mennini. Catholic hierarch received the order of St Daniel of Moscow of the Third Degree on September 3 "to notice his labors for establishing good relations between Russian Orthodox and Catholic Churches and because of the 60-th anniversary", the official web-site of Moscow Patriarchate reports.