On March 21-22 the Head of the External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, His Eminence Metropolitan KYRILL of Smolensk and Kaliningrad, shall pay a visit to the People's Republic of China as a member of the delegation of the President of the Russian Federation, V. V. Putin, who will be on a stay in Beijing on the invitation of the President of the People's Republic of China, Hu Jintao, partaking thus in the official opening ceremony of the Year of Russia in China.
On March 22nd on the feast day of the Albazin icon of the Mother of God - "The Word was made flesh", His Eminence Metropolitan KYRILL will celebrate a prayer service in the former church of Saint Inokenty on the premises of the Russian Embassy.