DECR Chairman
16.02.2014 16:15
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk celebrates Divine Liturgy at the Monastery of St Panteleimon on Mount Athos
On 15 February 2014, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, visited the Old Roussikon hermitage which is undergoing restoration.
15.02.2014 18:12
Metropolitan Hilarion celebrates Divine Liturgy at Vatopedi Monastery
On 14th February 2014, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, and his suite currently on a pilgrimage to the Holy Mount Athos, arrived at the Vatopedi Monastery.
15.02.2014 7:02
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk visits the Iveron Monastery and Xilourgou scete on Mount Athos
On February 14, Metropolitan Hilarion officiated at the Divine Liturgy in the church in which the miraculous icon is kept. Brethren of the monastery and clergymen who accompanied him concelebrated.
13.02.2014 23:45
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk arrives on Mount Athos
On the first day of the pilgrimage, Metropolitan Hilarion and his suite visited the New Thebaid hermitage of the Russian Monastery of St Panteleimon and met with its brethren.
12.02.2014 1:23
Organising Committee for celebration of the 1000th anniversary of St. Vladimir’s demise holds its first session
On 11th February 2014, at the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations (DECR) there took place the first session of the Organizing Committee for celebration of the 1000th anniversary of the demise of St. Vladimir Equal-to-the-Apostles.
10.02.2014 17:12
Metropolitan Hilarion meets the ambassador of Ireland in Russia
On February 10, 2014, the chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, met the ambassador of Ireland in Russia, Mr. Eoin O'Leary.
10.02.2014 11:35
Delegation of the Russian Orthodox Church takes part in enthronement of the new Primate of the Orthodox Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia
The enthronement of His Beatitude Metropolitan Rastislav, the new Primate of the Orthodox Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia, took place at the Cathedral of St. Alexander Nevsky in Prešov on February 9, 2014.
09.02.2014 12:07
Metropolitan Hilarion begins his visit to Slovakia
On 8th February 2014, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations (DECR), arrived in Slovakia with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia to take part in the enthronement of the new Primate of the Orthodox Church of…
07.02.2014 18:34
Metropolitan Hilarion congratulates His Beatitude Archbishop Hieronymus II of Athens and All Greece on the anniversary of his enthronement
Metropolitan Hilarion, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, sent the following greeting to His Beatitude Archbishop Hieronymus II of Athens and All Greece with the anniversary of his primatial ministry:
06.02.2014 17:58
DECR chairman meets the new French ambassador to Russia
On February 6, 2014, the chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, met in the DECR with the new ambassador of France to the Russian Federation, Mr. Jean-Maurice Ripert.