His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia congratulated His Beatitude Patriarch John X of the Great Antioch and All the East on the anniversary of his enthronement.
On June 8, Metropolitan Elias of Beirut met at the Metropolis of Beirut with Archbishop Leonid of Vladikavkas and Alania, deputy head of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate.