DECR Chairman
29.08.2013 11:38
DECR chairman meets with Russia’s Ambassador to Slovenia
On 28 August 2013, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, arrived in the capital of Slovenia, Ljubljana.
28.08.2013 11:12
DECR chairman meets with President of Croatia
On 27 August 2013, with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia and at the invitation of Metropolitan Ioann of Zagreb and Ljubljana, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, arrived in Croatia for a two-day visit.
20.08.2013 13:49
Metropolitan Hilarion meets with Spain’s ambassador to Russia
During the meeting, which was held in a friendly atmosphere, Metropolitan Hilarion told his guest about the ministry of the Russian Orthodox Church in Spain and her pastoral care of compatriots living there.
19.08.2013 22:10
Metropolitan Hilarion: Through participation in church sacraments, we partake of the Divine light
On August 19, 2013, the Day of the Transfiguration of the Lord, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Department for External Church Relations, celebrated the Divine Liturgy and the rite of the blessing of fruit at the Moscow Church of Our Lady the Joy to All the Afflicted-at-Bolshaya-Ordynka.
09.08.2013 12:11
DECR chairman sends greeting on the occasion of patronal feast of Russian Monastery of St. Panteleimon on Mount Athos
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, sent a message to Archimandrite Jeremiah, hegumen of the Russian Monastery of St. Panteleimon on Mount Athos, greeting him, the brethren of the monastery and pilgrims with the commemoration day of St Panteleimon.
06.08.2013 16:44
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk expresses condolences to President of the Council of Ministers of Italy over bus crash in Campania region
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, sent a message of condolences to Mr. Enrico Letta, President of the Council of Ministers of the Italian Republic, over the tragic bus crash near the town of Avellino in southern Italy.
05.08.2013 13:13
Metropolitan Hilarion: It is in the preaching of Christ and His teaching that the moral power of the Church lies
On August 3, 2013, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk as host of the Church and the World talk show on Vesti-24 TV network had as his guest Nikolay V. Kotrelev, a historian of Russian philosophy and literature and expert in the Silver Age of Russian culture.
29.07.2013 23:25
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill and Primates of Local Orthodox Churches meet with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko
The President of Belarus was pleased to note that the spiritual and secular powers in the country act as partners and expressed his hope that the Primates of the Local Orthodox Churches “will bring to their people the good news about the Byelorussia, about the strengthening of its statehood and…
29.07.2013 19:24
Primates of Local Orthodox Churches celebrate the Liturgy in Minsk Old Town
During the service, liturgical exclamations were made in Church Slavonic, Greek, Arabic, English, Georgian, and Albanian.
28.07.2013 19:13
The Day of St. Vladimir Equal-to-the-Apostles marked by Divine Liturgy celebrated by heads and hierarchs of Local Orthodox Churches at Kiev Monastery of the Caves
July 28, 2013 – Thousands of people congregated at the Kiev Monastery of the Assumption for the solemn liturgy to mark the commemoration day of the Holy Prince Vladimir Equal-to-the-Apostles, the Baptizer of Rus’.