DECR Chairman
30.10.2009 22:20
Archbishop Hilarion visits the Visoki Decani Monastery
On 29 October 2009, the Chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations Archbishop Hilarion of Volokolamsk, on a visit to Kosovo and Metochia at the invitation of Bishop Artemije of Raska-Prizren and Kosovo-Metochia, visited the old Visoki Decani Monastery.
29.10.2009 20:49
Archbishop Hilarion visits ruined and restored churches in Kosovo
The first church they saw was St. Elijah’s at the Vucitrn village, one of over 150 churches destroyed and defiled for the last ten years.
28.10.2009 17:00
Archbishop Hilarion of Volokolamsk begins his visit to Kosovo and Metochia
On 27 October 2009, the Chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations Archbishop Hilarion of Volokolamsk arrived in Kosovo and Metochia at the invitation of the Raska-Prizren diocese of the Serbian Orthodox Church.
28.10.2009 15:37
Archbishop Hilarion meets with Cardinal Christoph Schonborn
They discussed the results of the meeting of the Joint International Commission for the Theological Dialogue between the Roman Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church that took place in Cyprus on 17-23 October 2009.
27.10.2009 16:06
Archbishop Hilarion: It was not the Church who condemned Tolstoy but Tolstoy who condemned the Church
Precisely for this reason, the Orthodox Church announced that this man, who had never belonged to it, placed himself outside of the church fold by his blasphemous and sacrilegious utterances.
26.10.2009 11:30
Presentation of Archbishop Hilarion’s book ‘The Sacrament of the Faith’ in the Ukrainian language takes place in Kiev
Academy, and the Kiev-Mogilyanskaya Academy. "The Sacrament of the Faith" was first published in 1996, reprinted several times, and translated into many languages, including English, French, German, Polish, Finnish, Hungarian, Japanese, Serbian, and Macedonian.
24.10.2009 14:23
Archbishop Hilarion venerates old shrines in Cyprus
Archbishop Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations, visited the Stavrovouni Monastery of the Honorable and Life-giving Cross of Our Lord, the oldest monastery in Cyprus founded in the 4th century by the Holy Queen Helen Equal-to-the-Apostles.
23.10.2009 11:15
Archbishop Hilarion of Volokolamsk meets the Primate of the Orthodox Church of Cyprus
On 22 October 2009, the Chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate Department Archbishop Hilarion of Volokolamsk met with His Beatitude Archbishop Chrysostomos II of Nea Justiniana and All Cyprus. Taking part in the meeting that took place in Paphos, Cyprus, was Metropolitan Isaiah (Kykkotis) of Tamassos.
21.10.2009 16:44
Archbishop Hilarion visits the Monastery of Kykka in Cyprus
He venerated the monastery’s main shrine – the miracle-working Icon of Our Lady of Kykka, saw the monastery’s churches and museum of church archeology and shared a meal with representatives of the monastic community.
20.10.2009 19:58