DECR Chairman
26.09.2013 16:38
DECR chairman expresses his condolence over terrorist attack at Christian church in Pakistan
Tens of people were killed and injured on September 22, as a result of the suicide bombing at the Church of All Saints in Peshawar, northwest Pakistan.
25.09.2013 21:09
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk meets with Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby
On 25 September 2013, at the invitation of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, and Arcbishop Elisey of Sourozh attended the episcopal ordination of Canon Jonathan Goodall which took place in the main Cathedral of Westminster…
25.09.2013 10:44
Metropolitan Hilarion meets with the Apostolic Nuncio to Great Britain Archbishop Antonio Mennini
They had a warm talk on numerous issues of concern to both the Russian Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church.
24.09.2013 22:14
Metropolitan Hilarion meets with Catholic Archbishop Vincent Nichols of Westminster
They talked about Orthodox-Catholic relations, the state of religion in the modern society and prospects for students’ exchange between theological schools.
24.09.2013 14:40
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk meets with Russia’s Ambassador to Great Britain
On 23 September 2013, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, arrived in London for a three-day working visit. At the London Heathrow Airport, he was met by Archbishop Elisey of Sourozh, clerics of the Sourozh diocese, and representatives of the diplomatic corps…
24.09.2013 9:06
(Russian) Монашество как Таинство Церкви
(Russian) Доклад митрополита Илариона на конференции «Монастыри и монашество: традиции и современность», Троице-Сергиева Лавра, 23 сентября 2013 года
24.09.2013 7:50
DECR chairman speaks at International Conference ‘Monasteries and Monasticism: Traditions and Modernity’
On 23 September 2013, the International Conference ‘Monasteries and Monasticism: Traditions and Modernity’ opened at the Moscow Theological Academy. Taking part in the forum, organized by the Synodal Department for Monasteries and Monasticism, are archpastors, abbots and abbesses, monastics and theologians from Russia, Greece, Cyprus, Poland and Serbia.
22.09.2013 22:37
Metropolitan Hilarion: the Lord returns a hundredfold to those who give refuge to orphans
On September 22, 2013, the commemoration day of the Holy and Righteous Ancestors of God Joachim and Anna, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations, celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the Church of Our Lady the Joy to All the Afflicted-at-Bolshaya-Ordynka, in Moscow.
21.09.2013 21:11
Metropolitan Hilarion celebrates at the Church of the Nativity of Our Lady-at-Staroye-Simonovo on its patronal feast day
On September 21, 2013, the Day of the Nativity of our Most Holy Virgin Mary, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations, celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the Church of the Nativity of Our Lady-at-Staroye-Simonovo.
19.09.2013 20:29