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Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia will hold a meeting with Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople in Istanbul on Aug. 31, the Synodal Department for Church-Society and Media Relations said on Aug. 6.

“The previous meeting of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill and His Holiness Patriarch Bartholomew took place at the assembly of the heads of the autonomous Orthodox churches in Chambesy, Switzerland, on Jan. 22–27, 2016,” it said.