Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, the chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, considers that the old concept of « Moscow the Third Rome » is outdated and cannot be applied to contemporary Moscow.
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, the chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, considers that the old concept of « Moscow the Third Rome » is outdated and cannot be applied to contemporary Moscow.