Pope Francis met with Metropolitan Hilarion

On April 29, 2023, Pope Francis met with Metropolitan Hilarion of Budapest and Hungary, according to the website vaticannews.va.

During his visit to Hungary, the Pope met with Metropolitan Hilarion in the presence of Nuncio Michael Wallace Banach.

The Pope exchanged hugs with the hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church and kissed his panagia.

The website reports that the Metropolitan told Pope Francis “about the life of the Budapest-Hungarian Diocese of the Moscow Patriarchate, about its social and educational activities, as well as about its interaction with the Esztergom and Budapest Archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church and structures of other Christian denominations. In memory of the meeting, Metropolitan Hilarion presented Pope Francis with four volumes of his six-volume monograph “Jesus Christ. Life and Teachings, translated into Italian.