Greetings from Moscow! His Beatitude, Bishop Alexander and I were immediately plunged into the celebrations of the Russian Orthodox Church when we arrived at Domodedovo airport and were swept away by a welcoming delegation of bishops, representatives of the Department of External Church Relations, priests, deacons, subdeacons and our own Archimandrite Alexander (Pihach), Dean of Saint Catherine’s, the OCA’s representation church. Our group is being accompanied in Moscow by Bishop Clement of Krasnoslobodsk and Temnikov, and Father George Roshchin, who was recently assigned by the Moscow Patriarchate to New York (working with the United Nations).
