BELGRADE: November 26, 2021
Metropolitan Mark of Berlin and Germany meets His Holiness Patriarch Porfirij of Serbia

His Holiness Patriarch Porfirij of Serbia met with His Eminence Metropolitan Mark of Berlin and Germany of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia.

As was noted by His Holiness on his Instagram account: “During the Annunciation feast about 40 years ago at Celije Monastery, as a first-year seminary student, I noticed from afar a hieromonk who appeared at first glance to be very somber. My first impression was confirmed when I learned that this a German citizen named Father Mark of the Russian Church Abroad.

Since then we have met many times. Later, when I became a hierodeacon, I spent a week with him in his monastery in Munich, and today, as I spoke with Metropolitan Mark of Berlin and Germany at Entrance of the Holy Virgin Into the Temple Monastery, I was left with the impression of a broad-minded and kind man, the fruit of decades of life with the Russian people, their spirituality and culture.”