On Monday, March 15, 2004, His Beatitude, Metropolitan HERMAN was among the hierarchs representing member jurisdictions of the Standing Conference of Canonical Orthodox Bishops in the Americas (SCOBA) and the Standing Conference of Oriental Orthodox Churches (SCOOCH) who attended a breakfast discussion with His All-Holiness, Ecumenical Patriarch BARTHOLOMEW I at the headquarters of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese in New York City.
