VATICAN CITY, April 25 (RIA Novosti) - His Holiness Benedict XVI received in the Vatican City today Cyril the Metropolitan of Smolensk and Kaliningrad, in charge of the Moscow Patriarchate Department of External Church Relations, an informant close to the Russian delegation to the Holy See said to Novosti.
The new Pope has never before met a Russian Orthodox Church hierarch.
Metropolitan Cyril led official delegates of the Russian Orthodox Church to the pontifical enthronement ceremony.
Pope Benedict XVI will get going an efficient dialogue with the Orthodox Churches, expects the Moscow Patriarchate.
The Roman Catholic Church is determined to carry on its interdenominational and interreligious dialogues, said the Pope as he was receiving today members of ecclesiastical delegations who had gathered for his enthronement.
"The Catholic Church firmly intends to build bridges to other religions, as it was doing before," stressed the Pope.
