Meetings
27.05.2014 14:51
Metropolitan Hilarion meets with Metropolitan Anthony of Mexico
On May 26, 2014, Metropolitan Anthony of Mexico (Patriarchate of Antioch), while on an unofficial visit to the Russian Church, visited the Church of Our Lady the Joy to All the Afflicted-in-Bolshaya-Ordynka and met there with the chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations, Metropolitan Hilarion of…
27.05.2014 11:36
DECR chairman meets with delegation of Bulgarian Orthodox Church
Metropolitan Hilarion warmly welcomed members of the delegation. The Bulgarian hierarchs told him about church life in their dioceses.
24.05.2014 23:29
Patriarch Kirill meets with a delegation of the Patriarchate of Constantinople
The guests presented the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church with a gift from His Holiness Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople. It was an icon of St. Sophia (Hortokoridou), a newly-glorified Greek saint, a nun of the Kleisoura convent in northern Greece.
16.05.2014 15:20
Metropolitan Hilarion meets with Minister for Multicultural Affairs and Citizenship of Australian state of Victoria
On 16 May 2014, at the Department for External Church Relations, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, DECR chairman, met with Mr. Nicholas Kotsiras, Minister for Multicultural Affairs and Citizenship of the State Government of Victoria (Australia).
16.05.2014 14:57
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk meets with Colombia’s new ambassador to Russia
On May 16, 2014, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations, met with Colombia’s newly appointed ambassador to the Russian Federation, H. E. Jaime Giron Duarte, at the DECR. In attendance were Archpriest Sergiy Zvonarev, DECR secretary for far abroad, and Miguel Palacio,…
10.05.2014 18:26
High Patriarchal award is presented to Metropolitan Iriney of Dnepropetrovsk at the border control point of Dnepropetrovsk airport
At the border control, Metropolitan Hilarion was detained. The DECR chairman was kept waiting for a long time and then got an official notification which forbade him from entering Ukraine. No reasons were given for such ban.
30.04.2014 13:04
Reception in honour of Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk takes place at the residence of Mexican Ambassador to Russia
On 29 April 2014, H.E. Rubén Beltrán, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Mexico to Russia, and his spouse gave a reception in honour of Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations. The dinner took place at the residence of the head of the…
29.04.2014 17:49
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk meets with chairman of Imperial Orthodox Palestinian Society S. Stepashin
On April 29, 2014, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations, met with the chairman of the Imperial Orthodox Palestinian Society (IOPS), Sergey V. Stepashin.
25.04.2014 13:47
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk meets Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lebanon
On 25 April 2014, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations (DECR), met with Mr. Gebran Bassil, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants of the Republic of Lebanon.
24.04.2014 13:07
Metropolitan Hilarion meets with a group of pilgrims led by Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe
On April 23, 2014, Metropolitan Hilarion, head of the Department for External Church Relations, met with Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Archbishop of Naples, and a group of clergy and laity of the diocese of Naples, who are on a pilgrimage to shrines in Moscow and St. Petersburg. The meeting took place…