Inter-Christian relations
13.12.2019 19:55
DECR chairman meets with Archbishop Michele Pennisi
Archbishop Pennisi arrived in Russia to attend presentation of the album-calendar for 2020 ‘Mosaics of Monreale’ at the ‘Pokrovskie Vorota’ Cultural Centre.
29.11.2019 18:10
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill meets with Archbishop of Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church
On 29th November 2019, at the Patriarchal and Synodal residence in St. Daniel’s Monastery in Moscow, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia met with Archbishop Urmas Viilma, head of the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church (EELC).
29.11.2019 17:59
Bishop of Church of England visits Department for External Church Relations
On 29th November 2019, at the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, Hieromonk Stefan (Igumnov), DECR secretary for inter-Christian relations, met with Bishop Robert Innes of Gibraltar in Europe (Church of England).
29.11.2019 11:32
Address by Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, at the 2nd International Conference on Christian Persecution held in Budapest
On 28th November 2019, 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, attended the 2nd Conference in Defence of Christians in Budapest and delivered the address.
29.11.2019 11:31
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk takes part in 2nd International Conference on Christian Persecution
On 28th November 2019, 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, attended the 2nd International Conference on Christian Persecution held in Budapest and delivered an address.
28.11.2019 20:23
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk meets with Cardinal Péter Erdő
On 28 November 2019, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations (DECR), met with Archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest Péter Cardinal Erdő at the parish house of the Cathedral of the Dormition in Budapest.
27.11.2019 16:37
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill’s condolences over the murder of two priests of the Armenian Catholic community in Syria
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia expressed condolences over the murder, committed by terrorists, of Rev. Hovsep Bedoyan, rector of the Armenian Catholic community in the city of Qamishli, and of his father, Rev. Hanna Bedoyan.
25.11.2019 17:57
Oratorio “Andrej Rublev” by Monsignor Marco Frisina performed for the first time in Moscow
On November 24, 2019, the Russian premiere of an oratorio composed by Monsignor Marco Frisina, a renowned Catholic musician, took place at the Zaryadie concert hall as part of cultural cooperation between the Moscow Patriarchate and the Roman Catholic Church.
22.11.2019 12:02
4th meeting of Commission for Dialogue between Russian Orthodox Church and Assyrian Church of the East held in India
The commission discussed the implementation of agreements reached at the previous meeting in October 2018 in Sankt-Petersburg and defined the further cooperation program to be approved by the Supreme Church Authority.
12.11.2019 9:33
Delegation of Russian Orthodox Church made pilgrimage to common Christian holy places in Egypt
From November 1 to 7, 2019, a delegation of the Russian Orthodox Church was on a visit to Egypt with the blessing of Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia and at the invitation from Coptic Patriarch Tawadros II.