Inter-Orthodox relations
12.09.2017 13:10
16th anniversary of 9/11 terror attack in the United States was marked by requiem service at the Moscow Representation of the Orthodox Church in America
On the 11th of September 2017, which marked the 16th anniversary of the dreadful terror attack in the United States that had killed almost three thousand people, a requiem service was celebrated at the Church of the Holy Great Martyr Catherine In-the-Fields, the Moscow Representation of the Orthodox Church in…
11.09.2017 19:24
Hierarch of Russian Orthodox Church takes part in consecration of cathedral in Bulgarian Ruse
The consecration was presided over by Metropolitan Naum of Ruse. He was assisted by Metropolitan Longin of Saratov and Volsk and bishops and clergy from the Romanian Orthodox Church, the Bulgarian Orthodox Church’s Metropolia of Western and Central Europe, the Metropolia of Sofia and the Metropolia of Ruse. Among the…
07.09.2017 13:03
Metropolitan Hilarion: We should move forward preserving and strengthening our unity
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations, has given an interview to the Greek Romphaia web portal.
05.09.2017 11:32
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk meets with His Beatitude Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and All Greece
On 4 September 2017, with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, the chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations began his visit to Greece.
28.08.2017 19:48
On Assumption Day and anniversary of opening of 1917-1918 Local Council, Patriarch Kirill celebrated liturgy at Kremlin Cathedral of the Assumption
On August 28, 2017, the Day of the Assumption of the Most Holy Mary, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the patriarchal Cathedral of the Assumption in the Moscow Kremlin.
21.08.2017 15:00
Metropolitan Hilarion meets with Holy See Secretary of State
DECR Chairman Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk met at the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations (DECR) with the Holy See Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin who is on an official visit to Russia at the invitation of the Russian Federation Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
16.08.2017 22:13
Metropolitan Sergy of Barnaul and Altai leads celebrations on patronal feast of Russian Monastery of St. Panteleimon on Mount Athos
On 7-12 August 2017, a delegation of the Russian Orthodox Church made a pilgrimage to Mount Athos with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia.
12.08.2017 23:15
New administrator of Moscow Patriarchate parishes in Italy arrives at his workplace
August 11, 2017 – the newly appointed administrator of the Moscow Patriarchate parishes in Italy, Bishop Matfey of Bogorodsk, arrived in Rome.
12.08.2017 23:00
Russian Orthodox Church hierarchs take part in celebrations devoted to the Suprasl wonderworking Icon of the Mother of God in Poland
With the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia and at the invitation of Jakubow, Archbishop of Białystok and Gdańsk, Archbishop Justinian of Elista and Kalmykia arrived in Poland for the celebrations held in the Suprasl monastery, devoted to the Annunciation of the Most Holy Mother…
07.08.2017 23:42
The stay of the relics of Holy Protomartyr Panteleimon in Bulgaria is over
With the blessing of the Holy Kinot of the Holy Mount, the shrine with the honourable head of the Holy Protomartyr Panteleimon of the Russian Monastery of St. Panteleimon in Mount Athos was brought to the Bulgarian Orthodox Church on July 26 and stayed there till August 3, 2017.