Inter-Christian relations

17.03.2010 15:11

Patriarch Kirill and Catholicos Karekin II visit Russian Defense Ministry’s school in Yerevan

On March 17, 2010, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia and Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos Karekin II of All Armenians visited School No. 21 of the Russian Ministry of Defense, located near the Church of the Intercession they had visited previously.
17.03.2010 13:02

Patriarch Kirill visits Armenian Genocide Memorial

In the morning of March 17, 2010, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia and Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos Karekin II of All Armenians visited the Armenian Genocide Memorial on Tsitsernakabad Hill in Yerevan.
16.03.2010 21:18

Patriarch Kirill’s speech at Echmiadzin cathedral

With great joy and warm feelings I have set foot today on the blessed and much-suffered Armenian soil sanctified by the toil of St. Gregory the Enlightener of Great Armenia and stained with the blood of martyrs for the faith of Christ cultivated by many generations of the fraternal Armenian…
16.03.2010 17:52

His Holiness Patriarch Kirill and Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II honour the memory of the Russian soldiers died in the battle for the liberation of Armenia

After visiting Holy Etchmiadzin, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia currently on a visit to Armenia and the Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II proceeded to the monument to the Russian soldiers who fell in the Battle of Oshakan during the Russo-Persian war of…
16.03.2010 17:07

Agreement on cooperation between Sergiev Posad and Etchmiadzin is signed during His Holiness Patriarch Kirill’s visit to Armenia

On 16 March 2010, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill and the Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II visited the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin and proceeded to the Patriarchal resident in Etchmiadzin where an official ceremony of welcoming His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia took…
16.03.2010 16:48

His Holiness Kirill arrives in Holy Etchmiadzin

On 16 March 2010, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia arrived in Armenia on an official visit. He was met at the airport by the Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos and All Armenians Karekin II.
16.03.2010 16:30

His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia begins his visit to Armenia

On 16 March 2010, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia arrived to the Republic of Armenia on an official visit. He is accompanied by Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for external church relations; Archbishop Feognost of Sergiev Posad; Bishop Sergiy of Solnechnogorsk…
15.03.2010 23:38

DECR communications director attends round table on St. Patrick, Ireland, Russia

Rev. George Zavershinsky, DECR communications director, presented a paper at the round-table conference on St. Patrick, Ireland, Russia held at the Rudomino National Library of Foreign Literature on March 15, 2010 in anticipation of the Day of St. Patrick, the Christian enlightener of Ireland (4th-5th centuries).
09.03.2010 7:00

Metropolitan Hilarion’s Passions According to St. Matthews will be performed in Constantinople

A recital of Russian spiritual music will take place on March 26, 2010, at the old museum church of Agia Eirini in Istanbul, Turkey, to perform Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk’s Passions According to St. Matthews, and oratorio for soloists, a choir and an orchestra.
06.03.2010 20:17

Holy Synod’s decisions on church external work

At its meeting on 5 March 2010 in St. Petersburg, chaired by His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church made a number of decisions on the Church’s external work.