DECR Chairman
12.01.2010 22:12
Chairman of the Department for External Church Relations meets with Russian and foreign journalists
The meeting was dedicated to the external activities of the Russian Orthodox Church in 2010. Archbishop Hilarion submitted a working plan of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for external church relations for approval by His Holiness the Patriarch and members of the Holy Synod at its session on 25 December 2009…
12.01.2010 19:00
Archbishop Hilarion of Volokolamsk delivers Patriarchal awards to those who prepared the visit of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia to Ukraine
Patriarchal awards were conferred upon M. Komarov, S. Baranov, M. Kudelya, and Ya. Baskov for assistance rendered by them to the success of the Patriarchal visit to Ukraine and as a blessing for their zealous work to the glory of the Russian Orthodox Church.
12.01.2010 17:43
Archbishop Hilarion of Volokolamsk meets with Director of “La Verite” French Catholic Research Centre
They discussed the present state of the Orthodox-Catholic theological dialogue and possible joint scholarly and publications projects.
12.01.2010 16:26
First session of the working group for compiling modern catechism of the Russian Orthodox Church take place at the Department for External Church Relations
On 12 January 2010, Archbishop Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for external church relations and rector of the Church Post-Graduate and Doctoral School, chaired the first session of the working group for compiling modern catechism of the Russian Orthodox Church. The session took place at the…
12.01.2010 14:17
DECR Chairman congratulates His Beatitude Metropolitan Sawa of Warsaw and All Poland on his Name Day
Archbishop Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for external church relations, congratulated the Primate of the Polish Orthodox Church on his Name Day. The text of the greeting is given below:
11.01.2010 9:56
Archbishop Hilarion: the ousting of religion from public sphere will end in tragedy
On 9 January 2010, Archbishop Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for external church relations, greeted TV viewers with the Nativity of Christ and answered questions in the "Church and the World" programme on the feast.
10.01.2010 16:46
Archbishop Hilarion: the Nativity of Christ is a special feast perceived by the faithful as a winter Pascha as the same gracious joy comes to our hearts
On 10 January 2010, Archbishop Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for external church relations, celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the Church of the 'Joy to All the Afflicted" Icon of the Mother of God in Bolshaya Ordynka str., Moscow. Concelebrating were the DECR deputy chairmen archpriest…
09.01.2010 18:59
Archbishop Hilarion admits a deacon into monastic vows at the Laura of the Holy Trinity and St. Sergius
On 8 January 2010, the commemoration day of the apostle, Protomartyr and archdeacon Stephen, Archbishop Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for external church relations, officiated at the All-Night Vigil at the Cathedral of the Dormition of the Laura of the Holy Trinity and St. Sergius.
30.12.2009 13:28
Church Graduate School’s academic council sums up the 2009 term
The academic council of the Sts Cyril and Methodius Graduate and Doctoral School, at its meeting on December 29, chaired by Archbishop Hilarion of Volokolamsk, summed up the School’s first term.
30.12.2009 11:13