DECR Chairman
13.07.2016 18:29
Serbian ambassador visits Department for External Church Relations
On July 13, 2016, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations (DECR), met with the Serbian Ambassador to Russia S. Terzic.
13.07.2016 18:11
Metropolitan Hilarion receives a hierarch of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem
The hierarch of the Church of Jerusalem conveyed best wishes from His Beatitude Theophilos, Patriarch of the Holy City of Jerusalem and All Palestine.
13.07.2016 17:05
DECR chairman meets with Russian ambassador to Romania
On July 13, 2016, Metropolitan Hilarion, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations (DECR), met with the new Russian Ambassador to Romania V. I. Kuznetsov.
12.07.2016 19:11
On commemoration day of Ss Peter and Paul Metropolitan Hilarion celebrates Divine Liturgy at the Represenation of Serbian Church in Moscow
On 12 July 2016, the commemoration day of the Holy Glorious and All-Praised Leaders of the Apostles, Peter and Paul, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the Representation of the Serbian Orthodox Church, the Church of Ss…
08.07.2016 10:27
Metropolitan Hilarion meets with a delegation of Urbi et Orbi Catholic foundation
On July 7, 2016, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations (DECR), met with a delegation the Catholic foundation Urbi et Orbi led by Dr. Robert Moynihan, editor-in-chief of the Inside the Vatican magazine, at the DECR.
07.07.2016 17:26
DECR chairman meets with Russian ambassador to Saudi Arabia
In the course of a friendly talk, they exchanges views concerning Christian-Islamic relationships and discussed the situation in the Middle East and North Africa and the grave situation of Christians in the region.
07.07.2016 17:18
Metropolitan Hilarion meets with Russia’s ambassador to Poland
Among the topics they discussed in their talk were relationships between the Russian and Polish Orthodox Churches and bilateral contacts between the Moscow Patriarchate and the Roman Catholic Church, with a new impetus given to them in August 2012 by the Joint Message of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow…
07.07.2016 17:08
DECR chairman meets with Macedonia’s ambassador to Russia
On July 7, 2016, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations (DECR), met with Macedonia’s ambassador to Russia Goce Karajanov.
16.06.2016 21:58
Metropolitan Hilarion: There are no grounds for speaking of any division in the Orthodox world
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk gave an interview to the RIA Novosti.
16.06.2016 12:44
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill chairs session of the Supreme Council of the Russian Orthodox Church
On 16 June 2016, a session of the Supreme Church Council of the Russian Orthodox Church began its work at the Hall of the Supreme Church Council at the Church of Christ the Saviour in Moscow under the chairmanship of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia.