Anbā Sirābiyūn (Serapion), Metropolitan Bishop of Los Angeles, revealed in the recent edition of the al-Kirāza, the Official  magazine of the Coptic Orthodox Church, that the fourth meeting of the Commission for Bilateral Dialogue between the Coptic Orthodox Church and the Russian Orthodox Church is considered a turning point in their relations.

The meeting was held in Moscow generously hosted by His Holiness Patriarch Kirill between the 19^th to the 23^rd of September 2022, in which relations with the Russian Church moved from the level of exchanging visits to the stage of cooperation and signing memoranda of mutual understanding in the fields of theology and the exchange of students and scholarly envoys and the study of the Russian language.