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11.05.2018 18:01
Primate of Russian Church holds working meeting with chairman of the Department for External Church Relations and head of the Administration for Institutions Abroad
On 11 May 2018, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia held a working meeting with Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, and Archbishop Antony of Vienna and Budapest, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Administration for Institutions Abroad.
11.05.2018 11:12
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill chairs regular meeting of Supreme Church Council
On 11 May 2018, in the Hall of the Supreme Church Council of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia chaired a regular meeting of the Supreme Church Council of the Russian Orthodox Church.
11.05.2018 10:18
Commemorative events dedicated to the Russian soldiers who died in Gallipoli take place in Turkey
On 5 May 2018, as part of the commemorative events marking the 95th anniversary of the exodus of the First Army Corps of General Vrangel’s Russian Army from Turkey, a delegation of St Andrew Foundation, led by Mr. Vladimir Yakunin, visited the Patriarchate of Constantinople and met with Metropolitan Elpidophoros…
10.05.2018 13:50
Working group for cooperation between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland meets in Helsinki
Meeting of the Working group for cooperation between the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) and the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland (ELCF) took place in Helsinki, Finland, on 7 May 2018.
10.05.2018 10:06
11th meeting of Joint Commission for Orthodoxy-Islam dialogue takes place in Tehran
On 5-7 May 2018, the 11th meeting of the Joint Commission for Orthodoxy-Islam Dialogue took place in the capital of Iran. This year its topic was Religion and Environment. The commission holds meetings once in two years alternately in Moscow and Tehran.
09.05.2018 22:37
Metropolitan Hilarion meets with Patriarch Theophilos of Jerusalem
On May 6, 2018, the Sunday of the Samaritan Woman, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations (DECR), who is on a working trip to the Holy Land at the instruction of Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, took part in…
09.05.2018 21:39
Meeting between Metropolitan Hilarion and Primate of Orthodox Church of Antioch
On May 9, 2018, His Beatitude John X, Patriarch of Antioch, received in audience at his Lebanese residence in the Balamand Monastery, the chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations (DECR), Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, who had come to Lebanon with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch…
09.05.2018 14:04
On the eve of the Victory Day a Russian Orthodox Church hierarch said the Office for the Dead at the memorial to Soviet soldiers in Croatian Ilok
On May 8, 2018, Archbishop Antoniy of Vienna and Budapest, with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, visited the Croatian city of Ilok to take part in the opening of a renewed memorial to the Soviet soldiers who died there in 1944.
08.05.2018 11:32
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk meets with His Beatitude Archbishop Chrysostomos of Cyprus
Pan-Orthodox topics, issues pertaining to bilateral cooperation and interconfessional relations were discussed.
07.05.2018 17:22
Russian doctors examine patients in Al-Hosn hospital of the Orthodox Church of Antioch
The Al-Hosn Patriarchal hospital is located in the diocese of Akkar of the Orthodox Church of Antioch, Homs province. The hospital provides a wide range of diagnostic and treatment services and devotes special attention to rendering aid to those affected by the war in Syria.