There may be a meeting between Francis and Cyril. An unusual place has been chosen

TASS news agency reports that Francis Kirill, Patriarch of Russia and All Russia, has sent a special invitation to meet at one of Moscow’s airports on the occasion of his trip to Mongolia (August 31 – September 4).

TASS talked about this with Leonid Sevastyanov, “President of the World Association of Old Believers”, who stated that it would be Pope Francis himself who would speak about this project. A possible meeting could take place on the way to Ulaanbaatar or on the way back to Italy. Sevastyanov, a well-known Russian personality who boasts a close friendship with Putin and Kirill, and often talks about ongoing correspondence with the Holy Father, stressed that the airport meeting area “is considered a neutral transit zone”, i.e. it will not be included as a “gathering in Russia”.

Papal negotiator

Leonid Michajłowicz Sevastyanov was born in 1978 in Rostov-on-Don in a family of Old Believers. After school, at the age of 17, he entered the theological seminary in Moscow. After graduation, with the blessing of the then Metropolitan of Smolensk and Kaliningrad, Kirill (current Patriarch), he was sent to study at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, where he completed a course in political philosophy in 1999-2002. In 2002-2004, he attended Georgetown University in Washington, where he earned a master’s degree in international relations. Since 2004, he is co-founder and CEO of the international company Stratinvestru, which advises on all business matters (commercial, legislative, tax, financial), mainly in the fields of energy, communications, transportation and infrastructure.

He worked as a political analyst at the World Bank.

Leonid Sevastyanov and his wife, opera singer Svetlana Kasyan, were named peace ambassadors by Pope Francis in 2022. According to some sources, from the beginning of the so-called “Special Military Operation” Leonid Sevastyanov, through the Pope, is actively preparing a peaceful summit between the opposing sides.

Source: Do Rzeczy

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