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16.11.2018 23:17
Bishops’ Council of Polish Orthodox Church bans its clerics from entering into liturgical communion with Ukrainian schismatics that received Constantinople’s recognition
On the 15th of November 2018, the Bishops’ Council of the Polish Orthodox Church discussed the situation which had arisen due to the recent developments in the ecclesiastical life in Ukraine.
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.
16.11.2018 13:01
DECR chairman visits Russian Embassy in Cairo
On 15 November 2018, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, visited, while in Egypt, the Russian Embassy in Cairo and met with Mr. Sergei Kirpichenko, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to Egypt.
16.11.2018 10:32
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk meets with His Beatitude Patriarch Theodore of Alexandria
On 15 November 2018, 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, arrived in Cairo on a working visit.
15.11.2018 20:07
Head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Administration for Institutions Abroad meets with His Beatitude Metropolitan Rastislav of the Czech Lands and Slovakia
On the 14th-15th of November 2018, the head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Administration for Institutions Abroad, Archbishop Antony of Vienna and Budapest, visited Slovakia and the Czech Republic with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia.
15.11.2018 15:54
30th anniversary of Metropolitan Niphon’s episcopal consecration is celebrated in Moscow
On 13 November 2018, the 30th anniversary of the episcopal consecration of Metropolitan Niphon of Philippopolis, representative of the Patriarch of Antioch and All the East to the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia was celebrated at the Metochion of the Antiochian Orthodox Church in Moscow.
15.11.2018 10:37
Foundation stone for Russian cultural center and Russian Orthodox church blessed in Singapore
On November 13, 2018, President Vladimir Putin attended the ceremony of laying the foundation stone for a Russian cultural center and a Russian Orthodox church in Singapore.
13.11.2018 22:12
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk meets with newly appointed Czech Ambassador to Russia
On 13 November 2018, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations (DECR), met with H.E. Vitězslav Pivoňka, the newly appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Czech Republic to the Russian Federation.
13.11.2018 19:18
Resolution of the Council of Bishops of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of 13 November 2018
(Russian) Собор епископов Украинской Православной Церкви собрался в Успенской Киево-Печерской Лавре 13 ноября 2018 года.
Metropolitan Hilarion: Patriarch Bartholomew’s actions do not heal the schism but rather deepen it