During a meeting with Pope Leo XIV on July 26, Metropolitan Antony, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External ...

Pope Leo XIV will meet with Metropolitan Anthony of Volokolamsk, head of external relations for the Russian Orthodox Church, ...

Pope Leo XIV held a first meeting on Saturday with a senior Russian Orthodox cleric at the Vatican since becoming the head of ...

The Vatican confirmed that Pope Leo received Metropolitan Anthony, the senior Russian Orthodox Church cleric who chairs its ...

Metropolitan Anthony, a senior cleric in the Russian Orthodox Church, was quoted by state news agency RIA as saying he would meet Pope Leo on Saturday.

The timing of the meeting follows a call on June 4 between Pope Leo and Putin, during which the Kremlin urged the Vatican to ...

The head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, has sanctified Moscow’s Ukraine invasion, which he has described as a “holy war.” But Moscow had a dialogue with the late Pope Francis, ...

Pope Leo discussed the war in Ukraine on Saturday with Metropolitan Anthony, a senior cleric in the Russian Orthodox Church, ...

Pope Francis has greeted the foreign envoy of the Russian Orthodox Church, just days after revealing a secret “mission” is under way to try to put an end to the war in Ukraine. Metropolitan ...

Metropolitan Anthony of the Russian Orthodox Church is set to meet Pope Leo at the Vatican amidst strained relations due to the Ukraine war. He serves as the chairman of the church's department of ...