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18.01.2018 17:02
Traditional Christmas meeting at Ministry of Foreign Affair’s receptions house
The participants in the meeting, held in a friendly atmosphere, discussed various issues concerning cooperation between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
18.01.2018 8:28
DECR chairman meets with Bishop Jonathan Goodall of Ebbsfleet
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations (DECR) met with Bishop Jonathan Goodall of Ebbsfleet, Church of England, at the Ss Cyril and Methodius Institute of Post-Graduate Studies.
16.01.2018 21:27
Continued attacks on churches of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church
Unlawful actions against parishes of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church have continued in various regions of Ukraine. The beginning of 2018 has been marked with a number of wicked actions committed by nationalists including an attempt to block the Kiev Monastery of the Caves and repeated acts of vandalism against…
16.01.2018 16:27
Festive divine services in Bali
On January 14, 2018, the Circumcision of the Lord and the commemoration day of St. Basil the Great, Archbishop Sergiy of Solnechnogorsk, administrator of the Moscow Patriarchate parishes in East and South-East Asia, celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the chapel of the St. Sergius of Radonezh community in Bali, Indonesia.…
16.01.2018 12:35
A street named after Metropolitan Nikodim (Rotov) appears in Cyprus
The year 2018 marks the 40th anniversary of the demise of Metropolitan Nikodim of Leningrad and Novgorod, an outstanding hierarch of the 20th century.
15.01.2018 10:52
DECR chairman greets Archbishop Seraphim of Sendai with his Name Day
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, sent a message of greetings to Archbishop Seraphim of Sendai, hierarch of the Japanese Autonomous Orthodox Church, on the commemoration day of his heavenly patron, St. Seraphim of Sarov.
15.01.2018 9:36
DECR chairman meets with Apostolic Nuncio in Russia
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk received the Holy See representative in the Russian Federation, Archbishop Celestino Migliore, after the Divine Liturgy at the parish house of the church of the Icon ‘The Joy to All the Afflicted’-in-Bolshaya-Ordynka.
13.01.2018 18:46
Chapel erected at the site of future Orthodox church
In Reykjavik, Iceland, the first divine service was celebrated at the St. Nicholas Chapel mounted at a site that had been allocated by the city council. In near future it will be the site of the first Orthodox church to be built in the country. It will be dedicated to…
13.01.2018 16:58
Christmas reception at Russian General Consulate in New York
An official Christmas reception on behalf of Consul General S. Ovsyannikov and Administrator of Patriarchal Parishes in the USA Bishop Ioann of Naro-Fominsk was given at the Russian General Consulate in New York.
11.01.2018 20:25
DECR vice-chairman Archimandrite Philaret celebrates his 50th birthday
Archimandrite Philaret (Bulekov), vice-chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, celebrated his jubilee birthday at the DECR premises on January 11, 2018.