On Monday, November 17, 2008, His Grace, Bishop Mercurius of Zaraisk, Administrator of the Patriarchal Parishes of the Russian Orthodox Church in the USA, visited His Beatitude, Metropolitan Jonah at the OCA Chancery, conveying greetings to His Beatitude on the occasion of his recent election as primate of the Orthodox Church in America from His Holiness, Patriarch Aleksy II of Moscow and All Russia, and His Eminence, Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk. Bishop Mercurius was the first representative from a sister Orthodox Church to visit Metropolitan Jonah at the chancery since his recent election.
