Archbishop Hilarion and Protopriest Alexander Lebedeff Meet with Youth and Parents
at Protection Summer Camp

On December 16, 2005, His Eminence Archbishop Hilarion of Sydney, Australia and New Zealand and Protopriest Alexander Lebedeff, Secretary of the Commission on discussions with the Moscow Patriarchate, visited Holy Protection Summer Camp in Cabramatta (near Sydney), where they held a discussion with a group of the older youth and parents. Fr Alexander spoke about the progress of the talks with the Moscow Patriarchate and of church life in the Third Deanery of the Diocese of San Francisco and Western America. The evening before, with the blessing of Archbishop Hilarion, Protopriest Alexander Lebedeff granted an interview to the Editor-in-Chief of the local Russian magazine, Edinenie ["Unity"], SB Skorokhodov.