DECR Chairman
22.04.2019 12:02
Metropolitan Hilarion attends lecture by Italian Consul General on Dante’s Divine Comedy
On 21st April 2019, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, attended a literary soiree, last in the series of readings dedicated to the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri.
21.04.2019 8:11
DECR chairman sends Easter greetings to the heads of the non-Orthodox Churches
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, has sent Easter greetings to the heads of other non-Orthodox Churches.
17.04.2019 16:37
Metropolitan Hilarion meets with Kirche in Not delegation
On 18 April 2019, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations (DECR), met with Rev. Martin Barta, confessor, and Mr. Pyotr Gumenyuk, head of the Russian section, the Kirche in Not Foundation.
17.04.2019 12:04
Patriarch Kirill chairs a regular session of Supreme Church Council
On April 17, 2019, His Holiness Kirill, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, presided over a regular session of the Supreme Church Council of the Russian Orthodox Church, which took place at the Supreme Church Council Hall of the Cathedral Church of Christ the Saviour in Moscow.
12.04.2019 11:26
6th International Patristic Conference on Saint Basil the Great in the Theological Tradition of the East and the West opens in Moscow
On the 11th of April 2019, an opening ceremony of the 6th International Patristic Conference on Saint Basil the Great in the Theological Tradition of the East and the West took place at the Assembly Hall of Ss. Cyril and Methodius Theological Institute of Postgraduate Studies.
09.04.2019 13:40
DECR chairman meets with Germany’s ex-president
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations (DECR), met with Germany’s ex-president Christian Wulff, at the DECR.
06.04.2019 19:27
Rector, faculty and students of Theological Institute of Postgraduate Studies prayerfully celebrate 10th anniversary of its foundation
On 6 April 2019, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, rector of the Ss. Cyril and Methodius Theological Institute of Postgraduate Studies, celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the Moscow Church of Beheading of St. John the Baptist in-the-Woods.
04.04.2019 12:30
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill chairs session of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church
On 4 April 2019, the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church began its session at the Patriarchal and Synodal residence in Danilov Monastery in Moscow under the chairmanship of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia.
03.04.2019 8:30
A hierarch of the Patriarchate of Antioch visits the Russian Orthodox Church
From March 23 to 29, 2019, Bishop Demetrios of Safita, Patriarchate of Antioch, was on a visit to Moscow to attend the international research-practice conference on ‘Ways of achieving interreligious peace: the role of theologians, diplomats and public leaders’, and to venerate shrines of the Russian Orthodox Church.
02.04.2019 22:47
The Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church meets with the Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians
On April 2, 2019, His Holiness Kirill, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, met with the Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos Karekin II of All Armenians, at the patriarchal residence in the St. Daniel Monastery in Moscow.