Inter-Christian relations
27.11.2018 16:33
Administrator of the Moscow Patriarchate’s parishes in Italy meets with the head of Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity
The participants in the meeting, which took place at the premises of the Pontifical Council, discussed a wide range of issues pertaining to the bilateral cooperation.
21.11.2018 22:30
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill meets with members of the Council of Christian Church Leaders of Iraq
On 21 November 2018, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia met with members of the Council of Church Leaders of Iraq.
20.11.2018 16:37
International conference on the Church’s Care of Mentally Ill People
The international conference on The Church’s Care of Mentally Ill People took place on November 13-14, 2018, at the Department for External Church Relations (DECR).
18.11.2018 21:37
Heads and high-ranking representatives of religious communities in Syria and Russia meet in Damascus for conference
On November 17, 2018, a conference of the heads and high-ranking representatives of traditional religious communities in Syria and the interreligious delegation from Russia, headed by Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations (DECR), took place at the main hall of the Patriarchate…
16.11.2018 20:52
DECR chairman meets with Primate of Coptic Church
On 16 November 2018, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, met with the Primate of the Coptic Church, His Holiness Patriarch Tawadros II, at his residence in Cairo.
09.11.2018 12:57
10th anniversary of consecration of Russian church in Havana celebrated in Cuba
On 1-6 November 2018, with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, Archbishop Antony of Vienna and Budapest, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Administration for Institutions Abroad, visited Cuba.
26.10.2018 12:20
Commission for Dialogue between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Assyrian Church of the East holds its third meeting
On 23-27 October 2018, the third meeting of the Commission for Dialogue between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Assyrian Church of the East took place at the Novodevichy Convent of the Holy Resurrection in St. Petersburg.
19.10.2018 23:02
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk meets with Pope Francis
On 19 October 2018, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations (DECR), met with Pope Francis at the Apostolic Palace in Vatican.
18.10.2018 20:52
Metropolitan Hilarion meets with Cardinal Kurt Koch
On October 18, 2018, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Department for External Church Relations, met with the president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unite, Cardinal Kurt Koch, within the framework of the General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops of the Catholic Church.
Interview given by Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, DECR chairman, to Italian news agency SIR