Inter-Christian relations
25.12.2014 0:02
DECR chairman congratulates heads of the non-Orthodox Churches on the Nativity of Christ
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, sent the following Christmas greeting to Pope Francis, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos Karekin II of All Armenians, Archbishop Justin Welby of Canterbury, Bishop Heinrich Bedford-Strohm, chairman of the EKD Council, and heads of other non-Orthodox Churches
24.12.2014 16:47
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk meets with Chaplain to St Andrew’s Anglican Church
On 24 December 2014, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations (DECR), received the Revd. Clive Fairclough, Chaplain to St Andrew’s Anglican Church in Moscow, appointed by Archbishop Justin Welby last August.
24.12.2014 16:40
Metropolitan Hilarion meets with the head of the Russian and Nor Nakhichevan diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church
On 24 December 2014, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations (DECR), met with Archbishop Ezras Nersisyan, head of the Russian and Nor Nakhichevan diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church.
16.12.2014 12:49
Chancellor of Ukrainian Orthodox Church meets with representatives of World Council of Churches
On 15 December 2014, Metropolitan Antony of Borispol and Brovary, Chancellor of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, met with representatives of the World Council of Churches at the Kiev Laura of the Caves.
13.12.2014 22:38
Ceremony of awarding degree of Doctor Honoris Causa to Metropolitan Kallistos of Diokleia takes place at Ss Cyril and Methodius Theological Institute of Post-Graduate Studies
The decision to confer the degree on Metropolitan Kallistos was made by the Academic Council of the Theological Institute and was approved by His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia.
11.11.2014 6:44
Metropolitan Hilarion completes his visit to the USA
On 10 November 2014, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, completed his visit to the United States.
08.11.2014 18:26
Metropolitan Hilarion attends Russian-American forum of Christian leaders
Welcoming the participants in the forum, Mr. Franklin Graham noted the Billy Graham Association’s long relations with the Russian Orthodox Church, recalling numerous visits made by his father to the Soviet Union, the first one as far back as 1959.
08.11.2014 18:23
Speech by Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk at the Forum of Representatives of the Russia – USA forum of Christian leaders
7 November 2014, Charlotte, NC, USA.
04.11.2014 20:12
Primate of the Coptic Church completes his visit to Russia
On 4 November 2014, Patriarch Tawadros II of the Coptic Church completed his visit to Russia. On his last day in Moscow, His Holiness Patriarch Tawadros visited the Representation of the Orthodox Church of Antioch in Moscow.
04.11.2014 14:25
Delegation of the Coptic Church headed by Patriarch Tawadros II visit St. Petersburg
The delegation proceeded to the Novodevichy Convent and met with Metropolitan Varsonofy of St. Petersburg and Lagoda. The Primate of the Coptic Church noted that he was happy to visit St. Petersburg for the first time and thanked the Metropolitan and the sisters for hospitality.