The delegations of the Patriarchates of Constantinople and Moscow met on 26th March in Zurich to discuss the ecclesial scenario in Estonia and the prospects of theological dialogue between the Orthodox and Catholic Churches. In October last year, during the meeting of the plenary session of the International Joint Committee for theological dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church as a whole, the delegation of the Patriarchate of Moscow headed by bishop Hilarion of Vienna and Austria left the meeting, due to deep disagreement with the Patriarchate of Constantinople. The controversy concerned the status of the Estonian Orthodox Apostolic Church erected by the Patriarchate of Constantinople on a territory which, according to the Russian Orthodox Church, is part of the "canonical territory of the Patriarchate of Moscow". At the meeting in Zurich reads a release from the Patriarchate of Moscow which publishes the final "memorandum" of the meeting , the two delegations, in reviewing the ecclesial scenario in Estonia, "acknowledged the need to find a solution", which should solve the problem of real estate in the country and the problem of the canonical statute of the jurisdictions of the two patriarchates. ” “
