MOSCOW: September 22, 2009
The Primate of the Russian Church Abroad Meets His Holiness Patriarch Kirill and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin At Christ the Savior Cathedral

On September 22, 2009, His Eminence Metropolitan Hilarion and his fellow travelers visited Moscow’s Kremlin, and then headed for the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. There, His Eminence met with His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia and Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, who then venerated the Kursk-Root Icon of the Mother of God.