Meetings
09.10.2015 23:48
Patriarchal awards presented for assistance in restoring Russian Necropolis in Belgrade
On 9 October 2015, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, presented Patriarchal awards to some Russian statesmen in consideration of their contribution to the restoration of Russian Necropolis in Belgrade.
09.10.2015 18:33
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk meets with the Ambassador of Montenegro
On 9 October 2015, H.E. Zoran Jocović, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Montenegro to the Russian Federation, visited the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations and was received by Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, the DECR chairman. They exchanged opinions on the issues of mutual interest.
08.10.2015 21:02
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk meets with Mayor of Riga
Metropolitan Hilarion, head of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations (DECR), met with the Mayor of Riga Mr. Nil Isakovs, who was in Moscow for a working visit.
07.10.2015 10:50
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk meets with Vice-President of the German Bundestag
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations (DECR), met with Mr. Johannes Singhammer, Vice-President of the German Bundestag.
30.09.2015 22:06
DECR chairman congratulates Ambassador of Russia to the Republic of Macedonia
Metropolitan Hilarion congratulated Mr. Scherbak with his 65th birthday and presented him with an award of the Russian Orthodox Church – the medal of the Order of St. Prince Vladimir Equal-to-the-Apostles.
30.09.2015 18:29
DECR chairman meets with the Turkish Ambassador to Russia
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations (DECR), met with H.E. Umit Yardim, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Turkey to Russia.
25.09.2015 12:07
Celebrations to mark the centenary of the demise of St Vladimir Equal-to-the-Apostles begin in Khabarovsk
On September 24, 2015, with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations (DECR) arrived in Khabarovsk for participation, in his capacity as permanent member of the Holy Synod, in the diocesan…
25.08.2015 19:05
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk meets with delegation of Anglican Church in North America
On 25 August 2015, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, met with members of the delegation of the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA), who had come to Russia on a pilgrimage visit. The meeting took place at the DECR…
18.08.2015 22:50
Metropolitan Hilarion meets with director of Tretyakov State Gallery and director of State Museum of History
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations (DECR) and rector of the Ss Cyril and Methodius Institute of Post-Graduate Studies (CMI), met with the Tretyakov State Gallery director Ms Z. Tregulova and the State Museum of History director Mr. A. Levykin.
18.08.2015 17:18
Metropolitan Hilarion meets with newly appointed Russia’s Ambassador to Austria
Metropolitan Hilarion welcomed Mr. Lyubinsky to the Synodal institution responsible for international contacts of the Russian Orthodox Church. He shared with the guest his recollections of the time when he had served in Vienna, having noted a high level of cooperation between the Russian Church and the Roman Catholic Church…