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In 1996-1997, worked as an employee of the Patriarchate of Moscow Publishing Council. In 1997, he joined the staff of the Patriarchate of Moscow Synodal Department for External Church Relations.
In December 1998, he was a member of the Moscow Patriarchate's delegation at the Eighth Assembly of the [[w:World Council of Churches|WCC ]] (Harare, Zimbabwe) and became a member of the WCC Central Committee.
In 2000-2002, he studied at the Faculty of Philosophy at the [[w:The Catholic University of America|Catholic University of America]] (Washington, DC).
From 2003 to 2009, as a member of the Secretariate on Church and Society of the [[Synodal Department for External Church Relations]], he was in charge of inter-religious communication, including interaction with the Interreligious Council of Russia and the SNG Interreligious Council, and international interfaith organizations, was a member of the Commission of the Conference of European Churches "Islam in Europe", participated in the preparation and conduct of the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Meetings of the joint Russian-Iranian commission "Islam-Christianity".
On 27 July 2009, the Holy Synod appointed him Deputy Chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate Synodal Department for the Coordination of Church and Society.
