DECR Chairman
07.01.2015 11:28
Metropolitan Hilarion: Having come to this world, Christ always remains with us
On the Christmas night, January the 7th, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations, celebrated the festive Divine Liturgy at the church of Our Lady the Joy to All the Afflicted-on-Bolshaya Ordynka in Moscow.
07.01.2015 10:00
DECR chairman sends Christmas and New Year greetings to heads of foreign states, foreign public figures and statesmen
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, sent greetings to Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; King Felipe VI of Spain; Prince Hans-Adam II of Liechtenstein; Mr. Juan Manuel Santos Calderón, President of Colombia; Mr. Bronisław…
07.01.2015 0:01
DECR chairman sends Christmas greetings to Primates of the Local Orthodox Churches
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, has sent the following Christmas greetings to the Primates of the Local Orthodox Churches
28.12.2014 21:32
Metropolitan Hilarion: the Lord calls all of us to apostolic service
After the Litany of Fervent Supplication Metropolitan Hilarion said a prayer for peace in Ukraine.
25.12.2014 12:40
Metropolitan Hilarion’s congratulations to Primate of the Romanian Orthodox Church
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations, has congratulated His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of Romania, on his Name Day
25.12.2014 12:31
The Holy Synod meets for its last session in 2014
On December 25, 2014, the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church began its last session in 2014 at the Patriarchal and Synodal Residence in St. Daniel’s Monastery in Moscow. It is chaired by His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia.
25.12.2014 12:23
Metropolitan Hilarion sends greetings to Primate of Georgian Orthodox Church on the occasion of anniversary of his enthronement
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, greeted His Holiness and Beatitude Ilia II, Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, with the anniversary of his elevation to the Patriarchal throne.
25.12.2014 0:02
DECR chairman congratulates heads of the non-Orthodox Churches on the Nativity of Christ
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, sent the following Christmas greeting to Pope Francis, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos Karekin II of All Armenians, Archbishop Justin Welby of Canterbury, Bishop Heinrich Bedford-Strohm, chairman of the EKD Council, and heads of other non-Orthodox Churches
24.12.2014 16:47
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk meets with Chaplain to St Andrew’s Anglican Church
On 24 December 2014, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations (DECR), received the Revd. Clive Fairclough, Chaplain to St Andrew’s Anglican Church in Moscow, appointed by Archbishop Justin Welby last August.
24.12.2014 16:40
Metropolitan Hilarion meets with the head of the Russian and Nor Nakhichevan diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church
On 24 December 2014, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations (DECR), met with Archbishop Ezras Nersisyan, head of the Russian and Nor Nakhichevan diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church.