DECR Chairman
13.01.2016 13:54
Metropolitan Hilarion: Sacrificial love makes human existence meaningful
At these Christmas days, I would like to recall that at the heart of our religious tradition is a very unique, special person, with no similar one in the history – Jesus Christ.
12.01.2016 12:23
DECR chairman sends Christmas and New Year greetings to statesmen and public figures in the far abroad
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations (DECR) has sent messages of Christmas and New Year greetings to statesmen and public figures in the far abroad
10.01.2016 23:40
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk meets with Duke Christoph of Oldenburg
Metropolitan Hilarion warmly greeted the high guest and expressed his joy over the Duke’s attending the divine service at the church.
10.01.2016 23:35
DECR staff members share with their chairman joy over the Feast of the Nativity of Christ
On 10 January 2016, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the Church of the “Joy to All the Afflicted” Icon of the Heavenly Queen in Bolshaya Ordynka Street, Moscow.
08.01.2016 22:50
METROPOLITAN HILARION CELEBRATES DIVINE LITURGY AT THE MOSCOW METOCHION OF ORTHODOX CHURCH OF THE CZECH LANDS AND SLOVAKIA
On January 8, 2016, feast day of the Synaxis of the Most Holy Mother of God, the chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, celebrated the Divine Liturgy at St. Nicholas church at Kotelniki – the Moscow Metochion of the Orthodox…
07.01.2016 23:44
Primate of the Russian Church celebrates Great Vespers at the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour on the feast of the Nativity of Christ
In the evening of 7 January 2016, the feast day of the Nativity of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia celebrated Great Vespers at the Cathedral Church of Christ the Saviour in Moscow.
07.01.2016 14:59
On the feast day of the Nativity of Christ Metropolitan Hilarion celebrates Liturgy at the Church of “Joy to All the Afflicted” Icon of the Mother of God in Moscow
On the night of 7 January 2016, the Feast of the Nativity of Christ, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, officiated at the Divine Liturgy at the Church of the “Joy to All the Afflicted” Icon of the Mother of God in…
07.01.2016 0:01
DECR chairman sends Christmas greetings to heads of Local Orthodox Churches
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, sent greetings with the Nativity of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ
30.12.2015 16:05
Metropolitan Hilarion: possibility of convening Pan-Orthodox Council raises doubts
At the request of the Synodal Department for Church-Society and Media Relations, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, gave a brief summary of some events in 2015, and shared his expectations for the coming year.
28.12.2015 19:24
Metropolitan Hilarion attends a meeting of the Russian Humanitarian Academic Foundation
On December 25, 2015, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations (DECR), attended a meeting of the Council of the Russian Humanitarian Academic Foundation (RHAF).