DECR Chairman

12.12.2009 22:16

Archbishop Hilarion meets with rector of University of Fribourg

Archbishop Hilarion, who is a privat-docent of the University of Fribourg, told his colleagues from Fribourg about the work of Sts Cyril and Methodius’s Post-Graduate and Doctoral School which he was appointed to lead in March 2009.
10.12.2009 16:53

DECR Chairman expounds position of the Russian Orthodox Church on the prospects of dialogue with the Evangelical Church in Germany in his letter to the ECG leadership

Archbishop Hilarion recalls an opinion expressed by the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church on the ordination of women. There were no objections against any decision of this matter in the confessions that do not recognize ordination as a sacrament, and the ordained women in the ECG had not…
10.12.2009 16:12

Russian Orthodox Church delegation led by Archbishop Hilarion of Volokolamsk takes part in an Inter-Orthodox Preparatory Commission meeting

The Inter-Orthodox Preparatory Commission began its sessions on December 10 at the Patriarchate of Constantinople’s Orthodox Center in Chambesy near Geneva, to continue its work on the agenda of a Holy and Great Council of the Eastern Orthodox Church.
10.12.2009 14:16

Archbishop Hilarion’s letter to Chairperson of the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany Dr. Margot Kassmann and Head of the Department for ecumenical relations and ministries abroad of the Evangelical Church in Germany Bishop Martin Schindehutte

Archbishop Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for external church relations, sent the following letter to the chairperson of the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany Dr. Margot Kassmann and the head of the Department for ecumenical relations and ministries abroad of the Evangelical Church in…
10.12.2009 11:18

Archbishop Hilarion of Volokolamsk: Mass Media ignore the genocide of Serbs in Kosovo

On 5 December 2009, Archbishop Hilarion of Volokolamsk told the viewers of "The Church and the World" TV programme about the difficulties experienced by Orthodox Serbs in Kosovo.
08.12.2009 17:41

Russian Orthodox Church Biblical-Theological Commission meets for a plenary session at the Department for External Church Relations

The participants considered the tasks raised by the transformation of the Synodal Theological Commission into the Biblical-Theological Commission, the situation in Bible studies and training of specialists in Biblical theology.
08.12.2009 16:41

‘Tied by fate and faith’ – interview by Archbishop Hilarion, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations, to the Time of Union web-newspaper

On the eve of the festive date – the 10th anniversary of the signing of a Union Treaty between Russia and Belarus, Archbishop Hilarion gave an interview to the Time of Union web-newspaper. – Your Eminence, what are, in your view, the most important projects of inter-state cooperation patronized today…
08.12.2009 15:52

‘Religious dimension is a precondition for harmonizing the social system’ – Archbishop Hilarion’s interview to the Religion and Mass Medial internet portal

– Your Eminence, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia has made a great deal of trips to dioceses both within and outside Russia, namely, to Constantinople, Ukraine, Belarus. Considering the scale of the Patriarch’s personality, one may assume that he set the Church a task of global…
07.12.2009 13:54

Archbishop Hilarion meeting youth at the Medical Academy in Voronezh

Archbishop Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations, while in Voronezh for the translation of the relics of St. Mitrofan to the restored Cathedral of the Annunciation, met on December 6 with youth at the Burdenko Medical Academy.
07.12.2009 12:55

Archbishop Hilarion takes part in celebrating the translation of relics of St. Metrophanes of Voronezh to the Cathedral of the Annunciation

Concelebrating were Archbishops Alexander of Kostroma and Galich, Ioann of Belgorod and Stary Oskol, Panteleimon of Orel and Livny, Iustinian of Tiraspol and Dubossary, Bishop Nikon of Lipetsk and Yelets, and clergymen of the Voronezh diocese.