On February 1, Patriarchal Exarch for Africa Metropolitan Leonid of Klin visited the embassy of the Arab Republic of Egypt to meet with Egypt’s Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador to Russia H. E. Ali Baha Eldin Elnaggari.
On January 10, DECR chairman Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk met with His Beatitude Raphael Berdos, Catholicos Patriarch of Cilicia, who has come to Russia for the first time as Primate of the Armenian Catholic Church since he was elected to the Patriarchal see in September 2021.