DECR Chairman
18.01.2021 22:12
Metropolitan Hilarion advises the faithful not to participate in baptismal bathing during the pandemic
The chairman of the Department of External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate the metropolitan of Volokolamsk Hilarion answered questions put to him by the presenter of The Church and the World programme Yekaterina Gracheva which was broadcast on 16th January 2021 on Rossia-24.
18.01.2021 20:31
DECR chairman meets with chairman of Palestinian Civil Affairs Committee
On January 18, 2021, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, the head of the DECR, met with the chairman of the Palestinian Civil Affairs Committee of the Palestinian National Authority (in the rank of minister) Mr. Hussain ash-Sheikh, at the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations (DECR).
17.01.2021 20:06
Metropolitan Hilarion: to repent means to change your way of life
(Russian) 17 января 2020 года, в Неделю 32-ю по Пятидесятнице, пред Богоявлением, председатель Отдела внешних церковных связей Московского Патриархата митрополит Волоколамский Иларион совершил Божественную литургию в столичном храме в честь иконы Божией Матери «Всех скорбящих Радость» на Большой Ордынке.
17.01.2021 17:05
Metropolitan Hilarion: Extremists’ actions brought about serious imbalance in centuries-old Christian-Muslim relations in the Syrian land
For many centuries Christians lived in the Syrian land together with Muslims; yet, the invasion of terrorists who at the onset of the war in Syria started to seize cities, towns and villages, brought about a very serious imbalance in these centuries-old relations, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the…
17.01.2021 14:53
Metropolitan Hilarion: American politicians are unashamed to say that they openly interfere in interchurch relations
Such opinion was expressed by Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, who in the Church and the World TV-programme commented on the remark by Mike Pompeo.
14.01.2021 19:30
On the day of his episcopal consecration Metropolitan Hilarion celebrates Divine Liturgy in church of Martyrs and Confessors Michael and Theodore of Chernigov
On January 14, 2021, the Feast of the Circumcision of the Lord and the commemoration day of St. Basil the Great, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations, rector of Ss Cyril and Methodius Institute for Post-Graduate Studies, celebrated the Divine Liturgy of…
29.12.2020 13:21
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill chairs Holy Synod’s last session in 2020
The Primate of the Russian Church participated in the Holy Synod’s session remotely, from the Patriarchal residence in Peredelkino. His Holiness was in the hall where the Holy Synod had historically held its sessions.
22.12.2020 20:09
DECR chairman speaks at on-line conference in defence of African Christians
On 22nd December 2020, on the initiative of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Russian Association for Protection of Religious Freedom, an online conference on the Plight of Christians in Africa took place at the venue of Rossiya Segodnya Media Group.
22.12.2020 20:01
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk: Russian Church has called for alliance in defence of African Christians
(Russian) В ходе международной онлайн-конференции «О положении христиан в Африке» прозвучало выступление митрополита Волоколамского Илариона, председателя Отдела внешних церковных связей Московского Патриархата.
19.12.2020 23:50
Metropolitan Hilarion celebrates Divine Liturgy on the relics of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in Bari
On 19th December 2020, commemoration day of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, Archbishop of Myra in Lycia, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, while on a working visit to Bari, Italy, officiated at the Divine Liturgy in the Basilica of St. Nicholas, on…