His Beatitude, Metropolitan Tikhon is one of a number of Orthodox hierarchs attending the Inauguration of Pope Francis in Rome on Tuesday, March 19, 2013. Representatives from most of the Orthodox Churches are present, including His All-Holiness, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople. Read more here.
On Wednesday evening, March 20, 2013, His Eminence, Metropolitan Hilarion [Alfeyev] of Volokolamsk, who chairs the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department of External Church Relations, welcomed His Beatitude, Metropolitan Tikhon, Primate of the Orthodox Church in America, for the celebration of the Great Kanon of Saint Andrew of Crete at Rome’s Russian Orthodox Church of Saint Catherine. Accompanying Metropolitan Tikhon was Archpriest Eric G. Tosi, OCA Secretary. Read more here.
