High-resolution versions of these photos are available free of charge for use to accompany articles based on WCC press releases covering the 18-24 June 2005 visit of WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia to the Russian Orthodox Church. All photos should be credited to: Moscow Patriarchate DECR.

WCC delegation meeting with Patriarch Alexis II
Front, from left: Father Mikhail Gundyaev, Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia, Dr Mary Tanner
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Bishop Mark of Yegorievsk, vice-chairman of the Department for External Church Relations (DECR) and Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia at a parish feast of  the Church of the Holy Trinity in Khoroshevo (front, second and third from right)
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Bishop Mark of Yegorievsk, vice-chairman of the Department for External Church Relations (DECR) and Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia at a parish feast of  the Church of the Holy Trinity in Khoroshevo (front, second and third from right)
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WCC delegation meeting with DECR leadership. From left: Dr Mary Tanner, Archbishop Nifon of Targoviste , Metropolitan Kyrill of Smolensk, Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia, Dr Robert K. Welsh
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Dr Mary Tanner (left) and Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia at Pentecost liturgy
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WCC delegation visiting the Butovo memorial outside Moscow, where thousands of people, including many Christian clergy and monastics, were shot during the Stalinist purges of the 1930s
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WCC delegation visiting the Butovo memorial outside Moscow, where thousands of people, including many Christian clergy and monastics, were shot during the Stalinist purges of the 1930s
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