DECR Chairman
21.02.2016 2:33
Patriarch Kirill prays for persecuted Christians at the Statue of Christ the Redeemer and visits the church of St Zinaida the Martyr in Rio de Janeiro
During the prayer service, special petitions were brought to the Lord for Christians persecuted in the Middle East. The Gospel, petitions and prayers were said in Church Slavonic and Portuguese.
20.02.2016 8:36
Patriarch Kirill meets with President Dilma Rousseff of Brazil and visits Orthodox church in the capital city
On February 19, 2016, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia began his official visit to the Federative Republic of Brazil. His Holiness made this visit at the invitation of President Dilma Rousseff of Brazil.
18.02.2016 16:55
Metropolitan Hilarion greets Archbishop Leo of Karelia and All Finland with his Name Day
Metropolitan Hilarion sent the following greeting to Archbishop Leo
18.02.2016 14:46
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill: Antarctica has special spiritual significance for the whole world
On February 17, 2016, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia visited the Bellingshausen Station on Waterloo Island in Antarctica. In the common room of the station Patriarch Kirill met with the Russian expedition crew and with numerous members of other expeditions, including the explorers from the Chilean,…
18.02.2016 14:19
Metropolitan Hilarion: Orthodox and Catholics must learn to act as brothers and not as competitors
On February 12, 2016, the first ever meeting between the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia and the Pope, which had remained on the agenda of relations between the two Churches for 20 years, took place in Havana.
18.02.2016 11:07
Patriarch Kirill’s homily after the service at the Holy Trinity church in Antarctica
On February 17, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia visited the Bellingshausen Station on Waterloo Island in Antarctica to celebrate a thanksgiving with the blessing of water and the office for the dead polar explorers at the Holy Trinity church, the only stationary church in Antarctica.
18.02.2016 7:54
Patriarch Kirill visits Bellingshausen Russian Antarctic Station
On February 17, 2016, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia visited the Bellingshausen Station on Waterloo Island in Antarctica.
17.02.2016 13:34
DECR chairman greets Patriarch Theodoros II with his Name Day
Metropolitan Hilarion, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, congratulated His Beatitude Patriarch Theodoros II of Alexandria and All Africa on his Name Day.
17.02.2016 2:53
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill meets with the President of Paraguay
On 16 February 2016, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia met with the President of Paraguay, Horacio Manuel Cartes Jara, at the Lopez Presidential Palace in Asuncion.
16.02.2016 3:52
Patriarch Kirill honors memory of Russian volunteers who fell in Chaco War and meets with compatriots in Asuncion
On February 15, 2016, during his visit to the Republic of Paraguay’s capital Asuncion, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia visited the Russian plot at the central city Recoleta Cemetery, in which Russian émigrés, who joined as volunteers the Paraguayan Army and were killed in the Chaco…