Russian and Italian media reported this week that Pope Leo XIV will meet with Metropolitan Anthony of Volokolamsk, envoy of the Russian Orthodox Church , on Saturday, July 26.
A “metropolitan” is a high-ranking bishop in the Russian Orthodox hierarchy. Metropolitan Anthony, born Anton Yurievich Sevryuk, has been chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Russian Orthodox Church since 2022, a position regarded as second only to the Patriarch of the church.
Anthony met with Pope Leo’s predecessor, the late Pope Francis, at the Vatican in July 2024, shortly after the pope expressed his “great sorrow” over Russia’s bombing of…
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