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07.06.2016 17:09
Metropolitan Hilarion: It is important for us that the Council will be a factor of unity and unanimity
In his exclusive interview to Russia-24 TV channel Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations commented on the refusal of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church to participate in the Pan-Orthodox Council due to open on 16 June 2016. Metropolitan Hilarion noted in particular...
06.06.2016 17:52
Metropolitan Hilarion presents V. Nikonov, State Duma Education Committee chairman, with Patriarchal award
On June 5, 2016, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations (DECR), attended the reception given on the occasions of the 60th birthday of V. Nikonov, chairman of the State Duma Education Committee and head of the Russian World Foundation.
04.06.2016 10:04
Interview with Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev) of Volokolamsk with The National Herald on the forthcoming Pan-Orthodox Council
Interview with Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev) of Volokolamsk with The National Herald on the forthcoming Pan-Orthodox Council.
03.06.2016 21:34
Session of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church 3 June 2016
Serious problems which have arisen in the course of preparations for the Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church to take place from June 18 to 26, 2016, especially concerning the refusal of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church to attend the Council if its date is not put off and…
03.06.2016 15:14
Russian ambassador to Bulgaria decorated by Bulgarian Orthodox Church
On June 2, 2016, Russia’s Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Yu. Isakov was awarded the Bulgarian Orthodox Church’s Order of Ss Cyril and Methodius, First Class.
03.06.2016 11:32
The St. Petersburg Russian-German forum’s working group ‘Churches in Europe’ meet in Hamburg
The Churches in Europe working group of the Russian-German forum of civil societies ‘St. Petersburg Forum’s met for its regular session on May 30-31, 2015, in Hamburg.
02.06.2016 23:16
On the Protection of Unborn Children
Statement of the Interreligious Council in Russia
01.06.2016 19:59
Councils Are The Norm For Church Life, Not It’s Distortion
A Pan-Orthodox Council, which has not been convoked for more than thousand years and has been in preparation for more than fifty years, will take place on Crete in June.
01.06.2016 16:35
Metropolitan Hilarion meets with members of World Coordination Council of Russian Compatriots
On 1 June 2016, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Department for External Church Relations (DECR), met with the members of the World Coordination Council of Russian Compatriots who arrived in Moscow for the Council’s 26th meeting organized by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
01.06.2016 10:23
The first ever dissertation council for theology established in Russia as part of Ministry of Education and Science system
Unprecedented in Russian history, this event is a follow-up of the long and hard work, which has been carried out by the Russian Orthodox Church and other traditional religions since the 1990s to build the academic sphere of theology in a secular educational space.