DECR Chairman

27.11.2009 18:46

3d World Congress of Compatriots to be held in Moscow

The Congress will be opened on December 1 at the House of Unions Column Hall. Among those who are expected to come for the opening are His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Russian Foreign Minister S. Lavrov, Archbishop Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of…
27.11.2009 12:36

Archbishop Hilarion: The majority of Orthodox Christians in Ukraine stay in the fold of the canonical Orthodox Church

In conclusion of the visit, the archpastors visited the cathedral church of St. Michael the Archangel in Chercassy built through the labours of Metropolitan Sofrony and prayed at the shrine with the relics of venerable martyr Macarius of Cherkassy.
25.11.2009 16:24

Archbishop Hilarion meets with deputy head of Ukrainian Presidential Secretariat Yu. Bogutsky

On 24 November 2009, Archbishop Hilarion of Volokolamsk, the Chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for external church relations, on his stay in Kiev on the occasion of His Beatitude Metropolitan Vladimir's birthday, met with Yu. Bogutsky, the first deputy chairman of the Secretariat of the President of Ukraine, at…
25.11.2009 13:54

Archbishop Hilarion lectures at the Kievo-Mogilianskaya Academy

On 24 November 2009, the Chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for external church relations, Archbishop Hilarion of Volokolamsk, on a stay in Kiev on the occasion of the celebration of His Beatitude Metropolitan Vladimir's birthday, lectured in English at the "Kievo-Mogilianskaya Academy" National University on "The Life in God…
25.11.2009 11:35

DECR Chairman congratulates the Primate of the Orthodox Church of Alexandria on the 5th anniversary of his election Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa

Archbishop Hilarion of Volokolamsk, the chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for external church relations, sent the following congratulatory message to His Beatitude Theodore, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of his election to the Patriarchal Throne of Alexandria. Your Beatitude:…
24.11.2009 16:19

Archbishop Hilarion’s ‘St. Matthew Passions’ oratorio performed in Kiev in honour of Metropolitan Vladimir’s birthday

His Beatitude Metropolitan Vladimir of Kiev and All Ukraine’s birthday was marked on 23 November 2009 with a grand concert given at the National Philharmonic Society in Kiev.
23.11.2009 16:24

DECR Chairman congratulates Patriarch Theophilos on the 4th anniversary of his ascent to patriarchal throne

Archbishop Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations, sent the following congratulatory message to His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos of the Holy City of Jerusalem and All Palestine on the occasion of the 4th anniversary of his ascent to the patriarchal throne. Your Beatitude, Kindly…
23.11.2009 11:48

Archbishop Hilarion: Marxism that ousts religion from human life takes out its very heart, leaving only an emasculated shell

On 21 November 2009, the Chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for external church relations, Archbishop Hilarion of Volokolamsk took part in "The Church and the World" TV programme and commented on an article published in a Vatican official paper. The author wrote favourably about the teaching of Karl Marx.
20.11.2009 17:52

Ethics as politics

Interview given by Archbishop Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations, to the December issue of Russkiy mir.
20.11.2009 16:05

Archbishop Hilarion of Volokolamsk extends condolences to the wife of Father Daniel Sysoev over his murder

Dear Matushka Yulia, I have been deeply shocked by the murder of your husband, a well-known and loved priest in Moscow, committed with an open defiance in a church of God. Please accept my most sincere condolences. The fellow-priests of the late Father share with you in the sorrow that…