{"id":181152,"date":"2017-11-06T17:46:37","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T15:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=181152"},"modified":"2017-11-06T22:45:11","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T20:45:11","slug":"patriarch-ilia-planning-to-visit-russia-for-centenary-of-restored-patriarchate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/patriarch-ilia-planning-to-visit-russia-for-centenary-of-restored-patriarchate\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriarch Ilia planning to visit Russia for centenary of restored Patriarchate\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

His Beatitude Catholicos-Patriarch Ilia II of Georgia has accepted the invitation of His Beatitude Patriarch Kirill to visit Moscow on December 4 for the celebration of the centenary of the restoration of the Russian Patriarchate, saying he is ready to visit, health allowing, reports\u00a0Ria-Novosti<\/a>, quoted by orthochristian.com<\/a>.<\/h4>\n

Patriarch Ilia has had several health problems lately.<\/p>\n

The special invitation was extended by the chairman of the Russian Church\u2019s Department for External Church Relations His Eminence Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev),\u00a0who made recently a working visit to Georgia, on behalf of Pat. Kirill.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to welcome you on behalf of the Russian Patriarch Kirill. He said he is waiting for you in Russia, with great love in honor of the celebration of the centenary of the restoration of the dignity of the Russian Patriarchate. We hope to see you and the members of your delegation at this event. We have invited the heads of various Orthodox Churches, receiving agreement from the majority of them,\u201d the metropolitan said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI accept your invitation. If health permits, I will surely take part in this event,\u201d the Georgian patriarch responded.<\/p>\n

The Georgian Church head\u00a0was last in Russia\u00a0a year ago for the celebration of Pat. Kirill\u2019s 70th birthday on November 20.<\/p>\n

The Georgian Church\u00a0celebrated the centenary\u00a0of its own restored autocephaly and patriarchate on March 25 this year.<\/p>\n

Photo Credit: mospat.ru<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

His Beatitude Catholicos-Patriarch Ilia II of Georgia has accepted the invitation of His Beatitude Patriarch Kirill to visit Moscow on December 4 for the celebration of the centenary of the restoration of the Russian Patriarchate, saying he is ready to visit, health allowing, reports\u00a0Ria-Novosti, quoted by orthochristian.com. Patriarch Ilia has had several health problems lately.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":181153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1989,141,3928,54,2059,57,11623],"class_list":["post-181152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-autocephalous-orthodox-churches","tag-georgian-orthodox-church","tag-moscow","tag-patriarch-ilia-ii","tag-patriarch-kirill","tag-restoration","tag-russian-orthodox-church","tag-russian-patriarchate"],"better_featured_image":{"id":181153,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":550,"height":348,"file":"2017\/11\/PF-Ilia-II-va-participa-la-manifestarile-dedicate-centarului-restabilirii-Patriarhiei-Ruse-1.jpg","sizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"PF-Ilia-II-va-participa-la-manifestarile-dedicate-centarului-restabilirii-Patriarhiei-Ruse-1-360x348.jpg","width":360,"height":348,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/PF-Ilia-II-va-participa-la-manifestarile-dedicate-centarului-restabilirii-Patriarhiei-Ruse-1-360x348.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0","keywords":[]}},"post":181152,"source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/PF-Ilia-II-va-participa-la-manifestarile-dedicate-centarului-restabilirii-Patriarhiei-Ruse-1.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181152\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=181152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181152\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181153\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=181152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=181152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=181152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}