Metropolitan Pitirim on the Koran

Although the Moscow Patriarchate had not ever published any Orthodox catechism for wide distribution, this did not prevent one of her chief hierarchs from declaring:

“When I have my own printing press, I will publish the Koran according to the most ancient manuscripts that belong to the disciples of the prophet Mohammed, and I will give it to Soviet Mohammedans.”

METROPOLITAN PITIRIM OF VOLOKOLAMSK,
the head of the Publishing Department
of the Moscow Patriarchate,
Declaration on Soviet Television
[See Vestnik Khristianskogo
Informatsionnogo Tsentra, #31,
Sept. 26, 1989, pp. 2-3]