On Wednesday, April 7, 2021, the Midpoint of Great Lent and the feast of the Repose of Saint Tikhon of Moscow, His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon served the Presanctified Liturgy at Saint Sergius Chapel at the Chancery of the Orthodox Church in America. At the end of the liturgy, His Beatitude welcomed to the Chancery Abbot Nicodemus Balyasnikov, Cleric of Saint Nicholas Cathedral, New York, NY, Secretary to the Administrator of the Patriarchal Parishes in the USA, and Priest Mark Rashkov, the Vice-Chancellor of the Moscow Patriarchal Parishes in the USA. Father Nicodemus and Father Mark extended the greetings of His Eminence Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokalamsk and His Grace Bishop Matthew of Sourozh to His Beatitude on the anniversary of his monastic tonsure. His Beatitude, Archpriest Alexander Rentel, and Priest Alessandro Margheritino then met with the Father Nicodemus and Father Mark over lunch and discussed matters of common concern between the Orthodox Church in America and the Moscow Patriarchate.
