DECR Chairman
24.05.2011 18:56
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill celebrates Divine Liturgy at the Assumption Cathedral in the Kremlin on Ss Cyril and Methodius Day
May 24 is also the Name Day of the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church.
23.05.2011 23:15
(Russian) Председатель ОВЦС встретился с иерархом Константинопольского Патриархата
(Russian) Митрополит Прусский Элпидофор прибыл в Москву по приглашению Святейшего Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла для участия в торжествах по случаю Дня тезоименитства Его Святейшества и Дней славянской письменности и культуры.
23.05.2011 9:16
Metropolitan Hilarion celebrates Divine Liturgy at Russian Embassy in the capital of Jamaica
Some thirty people attended Divine Liturgy at the Russian Embassy, including Mr. V. Zotin, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Russia to Jamaica; diplomats, staff of the Embassy with their families, and representatives of the RUSAL United Company currently operating in Jamaica. All of them received Holy Communion.
19.05.2011 22:00
Metropolitan Hilarion: It is urgent that a system of protecting Christians against persecution be organized
Address by DECR Chairman, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, at the opening of the International Ecumenical Peace Convocation (18 May 2011, Kingston, Jamaica)
19.05.2011 21:57
Metropolitan Hilarion speaks at the opening of the International Ecumenical Peace Convocation in Kingston
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations, spoke at the opening of the International Ecumenical Peace Convocation on May 18, 2011, in Kingston, the capital of Jamaica.
18.05.2011 12:36
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk takes part in celebration in honour of New Martyrs of Batak
The Divine Liturgy was celebrated in the city’s central square. It was led by Metropolitan Nikolay of Plovdiv.
16.05.2011 16:14
Metropolitan Hilarion meets with Russian Ambassador to Bulgaria
On 16 May 2011, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations (DECR), met with H.E. Yu. Isakov, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Russia to Bulgaria.
16.05.2011 16:03
Metropolitan Hilarion meets with His Holiness Patriarch Maxim of Bulgaria
The DECR chairman conveyed warm fraternal greetings from His Holiness Patriarch Kirill to His Holiness Patriarch Maxim and underscored the importance of the glorification of the martyrs of Batak, as “the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church.”
16.05.2011 9:08
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk begins working trip to Bulgaria
Metropolitan Hilarion, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations, arrived on Sofia on May 15, 2011.
15.05.2011 18:12