Orthodox hierarchs and Church leaders
08.10.2014 21:25
Hierarchs of the Serbian Orthodox Church take part in the celebration on the commemoration day of St. Sergius of Radonezh
On 8 October 2014, Metropolitan Porfirije of Zagreb-Ljubljana currently on a visit to the Russian Orthodox Church with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, took part in the celebration on the commemoration day of St. Sergius of Radonezh in the Laura of the Holt…
06.09.2014 11:33
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk meets with His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel of Romania
On 5 September 2014, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, began his pilgrimage to Romania with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia.
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.
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.
12.04.2014 14:52
DECR chairman receives new representative of the Orthodox Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia
On April 10, 2014, a meeting took place between Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations, and the newly appointed rector of the Moscow representation of the Orthodox Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia, Archimandrite Seraphim Shemyatovsky, who has come to serve…
24.02.2014 22:49
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk meets with Primate of the Greek Orthodox Church
On 24 February 2014, with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, visited Athens and met with His Beatitude Archbishop Ieronymos II of Athens and All Greece.
18.01.2014 13:26
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk meets with Patriarchate of Antioch’s hierarchs serving in Latin America
On January 16, 2014, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations, while on a working visit to Mexico, met with the Orthodox Church of Antioch’s hierarchs serving in Latin American countries.
18.05.2013 12:00
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk meets with His Holiness Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople
On 17 May 2013, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations (DECR), who was making a working trip to Istanbul with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, visited the Patriarchate of Constantinople.