30.08.2011 17:43

Metropolitan Hilarion: There are no grounds to expect the Pan-Orthodox Council to run into surprises

Metropolitan Hilarion: There are no grounds to expect the Pan-Orthodox Council to run into surprises Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, made a journey to the Middle East in the end of August. He visited three ancient Local Churches and met with their Primates. Upon returning to Moscow, he spoke about his visit to “Interfax-Religion.”
30.08.2011 15:08

(Russian) Епископ Корсунский Нестор совершил монашеский постриг протоиерея Николая Макара и постриг в великую схиму отца Гавриила (Бунге)

(Russian) Епископ Корсунский Нестор совершил монашеский постриг протоиерея Николая Макара и постриг в великую схиму отца Гавриила (Бунге) (Russian) Постриги были совершены в Крестовоздвиженском скиту в швейцарской провинции Лугано.
30.08.2011 15:07

Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk meets with Ambassador of Poland to Russia Wojciech Zajonczkowski

Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk meets with Ambassador of Poland to Russia Wojciech Zajonczkowski Discussed at the meeting were cooperation between the Orthodox and the Catholics in upholding traditional Christian values, and a document currently being prepared on the contribution of the Church to the reconciliation of Russian and Polish people.
29.08.2011 15:34

(Russian) Завершается прием документов в Общецерковную аспирантуру от поступающих на кандидатскую и докторскую программы

(Russian) Завершается прием документов в Общецерковную аспирантуру от поступающих на кандидатскую и докторскую программы (Russian) Абитуриентов принимают семь профильных кафедр Общецерковной аспирантуры и докторантуры, охватывающих все предметные области церковной науки.
29.08.2011 13:49

Metropolitan Hilarion meets with the President of the Palestinian National Authority Mahmoud Abbas

In a cordial friendly talk they discussed cooperation of the Russian Orthodox Church with the Palestinian National Authority, the situation in the Middle East, and the situation of Christians in the region.
29.08.2011 12:21

Metropolitan Hilarion celebrates Divine Liturgy at the Russian Convent of St. Mary Magdalene in Gethsemane

Metropolitan Hilarion presented Mother Superior and the sisters with an icon of St. Isaac of Syria with inscription.
28.08.2011 19:45

Metropolitan Hilarion celebrates All-Night Vigil at the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Jerusalem

Metropolitan Hilarion said in conclusion that people feel themselves particularly close to God and His Mother in the Holy Land and thanked archimandrite Isidor and all workers of the Mission for hospitality rendered to himself and members of the delegation who arrived here to meet with His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos…
27.08.2011 18:00

Metropolitan Hilarion continues his pilgrimage to the Holy Land

Сhairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations visited Galilee.
26.08.2011 12:04

Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk participates in nocturnal liturgy at the Lord’s Sepulcher

Prayers were lifted up in Greek, Church Slavonic and Arabic.
26.08.2011 12:00

Patriarchal congratulations to President Victor Yanukovich on 20th anniversary Ukraine’s independence

His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia sent the following congratulatory message to Ukrainian President Victor Yanukovich on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Ukraine’s independence.