Metropolitan Pavel of Manila and Hanoi took part in the XIII Christmas Parliamentary Meetings in the State Duma
On January 30, 2025, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus’ and Chairman of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation V.V. Volodin took part in the XIII Christmas Parliamentary Meetings, organized in the State Duma as part of the XXXIII International Christmas Educational Readings “80th Anniversary of the Great Victory: Memory and Spiritual Experience of Generations”.
The event was attended by Metropolitan Paul of Manila and Hanoi, Administrator of the Philippines-Vietnam Diocese of the Patriarchal Exarchate of Southeast Asia.
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill and V.V. Volodin, accompanied by the Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the International Christmas Readings, Chairman of the Synodal Department for Religious Education and Catechesis, Metropolitan Evgeny of Yekaterinburg and Verkhoturye, and other persons, viewed the exhibition “With God to Victory! Russian Military Clergy: History and Modernity” and the exhibition of works by the winners of the XX International Children’s Art Competition “The Beauty of God’s World: The Connecting Thread of Time”.
The stands of the exhibition “Russian Clergy” present unique photographs, archival documents and objects that reveal the important role of the clergy in military operations from the time of the tsarist army to the present day.
The meeting was attended by members of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, deputies of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, permanent members of the Holy Synod – the head of the Central Asian Metropolitan District, Metropolitan Vikenty of Tashkent and Uzbekistan, Metropolitan Varsonofy of St. Petersburg and Ladoga, Patriarchal Vicar of the Moscow Metropolitanate, Metropolitan Pavel of Krutitsy and Kolomna, Patriarchal Exarch of All Belarus, Metropolitan Veniamin of Minsk and Zaslavl, Administrator of the Moscow Patriarchate, Metropolitan Gregory of Voskresensk, Chairman of the Financial and Economic Administration of the Moscow Patriarchate, Metropolitan Nikandr of Vladimir and Suzdal, hierarchs and clergy of the Russian Orthodox Church, representatives of traditional religions, state, scientific and public organizations, regions of the Russian Federation, a total of over 500 people.
The meeting was opened by the Chairman of the State Duma V.V. Volodin. The main report was given by His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus’.
