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Metropolitan Hilarion: Summit of the heads of Churches is possible in foreseeable future

patriarcs ammanAn interview of Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, Chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, to RIA Novosti

–Your Eminence, is Patriarch Theophilos or any other Church leader planning another meeting of the kind of the Amman summit this year, and if so, when concretely? What do you know about actions and negotiations, if any, towards this goal?

I would like to point out that all the delegations that took part in the Amman meeting last February expressed their intention to continue the brotherly meetings of the heads and representatives of Local Churches. Back then they expressed their wish, as is specified in the Communique, to come together again “preferably before the end of the year.” Of course, at

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