DECR Chairman
24.04.2013 15:04
Metropolitan Hilarion meets with State Secretary of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs
On 24 April 2013, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, currently on a working visit to Germany with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, met with Ms Emily Huber, State Secretary of the German Federal Foreign…
24.04.2013 0:55
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk arrives in Germany
On 23 April 2013, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, arrived in Berlin. The DECR chairman visits Germany with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia.
23.04.2013 21:01
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk speaks at the Conference on St. Augustine and World Culture
On 23 April 2013, a conference on St. Augustine and World Culture took place in the Grand Hall of the All-Russia State Library of Foreign Literature.
23.04.2013 15:24
DECR chairman expresses condolences to the head of Syrian Orthodox Church over abduction of two hierarchs of Christian Churches of Syria
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, sends a message to Patriarch Mar Ignatius Zakka I Iwas of the Syrian Orthodox Church, in which he notes that this extremist act is aimed to intimidate Syrian Christians and to expel them from their native…
23.04.2013 14:34
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk expresses condolences to Patriarch John X of Antioch and All the East over the abduction of Metropolitan Boulos of Aleppo, hierarch of Orthodox Church of Antioch, and Metropolitan Mar Gregorios Yohanna Ibrahim of Syrian Orthodox Church
In the message to His Beatitude Patriarch John X of Great Antioch and All the East, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, expressed his sympathy over the abduction of hierarchs of the Patriarchate of Antioch and of the Syrian Orthodox Church. The…
23.04.2013 12:45
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk: We pray for the soonest return of hierarchs abducted in Syria
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, made comments to the mass media concerning the abduction of hierarchs of the Patriarchate of Antioch and of the Syrian Orthodox Church
22.04.2013 17:52
Metropolitan Hilarion meets with participants of Higher Diplomatic Courses
On 22 April 2013, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations (DECR), met with participants in the Higher Diplomatic Courses of the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All…
22.04.2013 15:03
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk meets with German Ambassador to Russia
On 22 April 2013, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations (DECR), met with H. E. Ulrich Brandenburg, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Russian Federation.
21.04.2013 14:21
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk chairs meeting of Coordinating Committee of border zone dioceses of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus
Metropolitan Hilarion chaired the meeting. In his welcoming address, he spoke about topical problems in cooperation among the border zone dioceses of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus and outlined the purposes of the Coordinating Committee.
19.04.2013 16:48
His Beatitude Patriarch John X of Antioch expresses gratitude for humanitarian aid to the Syrian people
His Beatitude Patriarch John X of Antioch and All the East sent a letter to Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, in which he expressed his gratitude for humanitarian aid collected for the Syrian people in Russia by the Imperial Orthodox Palestine…