PATRIARCH ALEXI II:  A MEETING BETWEEN THE CHIEFS THE RUSSIAN
ORTHODOXEN AND THE ROMAN-CATHOLIC CHURCH IS ONLY UNDER CERTAIN
CIRCUMSTANCES CONCEIVABLE








MOSCOW, 6 March.  (RIA "Nowosti" rIA-"Nowosti"-Korrespondent Grigori
Tebenichin).  The meeting between the chiefs of the Russian Orthodoxen
and the Roman-catholic church is " only under certain circumstances
possible ", avowed Alexi II., Patriarch of Moscow and whole Russia.

In the discussion with the directors/conductors of the orthodoxen
municipalities and Russian societies of the GUS states and
Baltenlaender on Tuesday he referred the " destruction " the
orthodoxen Dioezesen, particularly in the Ukraine to the necessity, to
adjust as well as in the Baltic countries.  Besides the catholic
church must give the expansion up in the characteristic areas of the
Russian Orthodoxen church according to the Patriarchen.  It referred
in particular to the " destruction " the Dioezesen Lwow, Ternopol and
Iwano Frankowsk, according to which the orthodoxen Ukrainer without
religious steering element remained.

Before the meeting with Johannes Paul II. is to be re-created the
status quo, stressed the Patriarch.  " in such serious questions no
compromise is possible ", said the Patriarch conviction-strongly.