His Holiness Patriarch Aram I of Cilicia, Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia of the Armenian Apostolic Church, received Archimandrite Philip (Vasiltsev), representative of the Russian Orthodox Church, at his residence in Antelias (Lebanon) on May 12.  
During the lengthy conversation, a wide range of issues of inter-Christian dialogue, the life of the Russian Orthodox Church in Lebanon, as well as the upcoming May 18 great consecration of the church in honor of the icon of the Mother of God "Unexpected Joy" in the Lebanese city of Zahle were discussed, the website of the Metochion reports.
His Holiness Patriarch Aram asked me to convey his warm greetings to the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, as well as to Metropolitan Anthony of Volokolamsk, Chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate's Department for External Church Relations.
The meeting was attended by Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to Lebanon A.N. Rudakov.