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21.08.2015 14:59
Primate of Orthodox Church of Alexandria arrives in Russia
On 19 August 2015, His Beatitude Pope and Patriarch Theodoros II of Alexandria began his pilgrimage to Russia by visiting the Solovki Monastery. The Primate of the Orthodox Church of Alexandia is accompanied on his visit by Bishop Meletios of Naukratis.
20.08.2015 2:47
Metropolitan Hilarion: Church becomes Mount Tabor for us
On 19 August 2015, the Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolmask, chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the Church of the “Joy to All the Afflicted” Icon of the Mother of God in Bolshaya…
18.08.2015 22:50
Metropolitan Hilarion meets with director of Tretyakov State Gallery and director of State Museum of History
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations (DECR) and rector of the Ss Cyril and Methodius Institute of Post-Graduate Studies (CMI), met with the Tretyakov State Gallery director Ms Z. Tregulova and the State Museum of History director Mr. A. Levykin.
18.08.2015 17:18
Metropolitan Hilarion meets with newly appointed Russia’s Ambassador to Austria
Metropolitan Hilarion welcomed Mr. Lyubinsky to the Synodal institution responsible for international contacts of the Russian Orthodox Church. He shared with the guest his recollections of the time when he had served in Vienna, having noted a high level of cooperation between the Russian Church and the Roman Catholic Church…
18.08.2015 12:03
Patriarch Theodore of Alexandria arriving to Russia
His Beatitude Theodore II, Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, will be on private pilgrimage to the Russian Orthodox Church from August 19 to 20, 2015.
18.08.2015 9:17
Metropolitan Onufry of Kiev and All Ukraine’s enthronement anniversary celebrated in Kiev
On August 17, 2015, the first anniversary of the enthronement of the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Onufry of Kiev and All Ukraine, the solemn Divine Liturgy was celebrated at the Cathedral of the Assumption at the Kiev Laura of the Caves.
17.08.2015 16:11
Bishop Nestor of Chersonese takes part in celebrations marking 75th anniversary of the foundation of Taizé Community
On 16 August 2015, at the invitation of Brother Alois, prior of the Christian Taizé Community, and upon the blessing of the supreme authority of the Russian Orthodox Church, Bishop Nestor of Chersonese visited Taizé village in Burgundy, France, to take part in the commemorative events marking the 75th anniversary…
17.08.2015 15:34
Official cancellation of postcard depicting Orthodox church in the capital of DPRK takes place in Moscow
On 15 August 2015, a ceremony of the official cancellation of a postcard depicting the Moscow Patriarchate’s Church of the Holy Trinity in Pyongyang took place at the “Rossica” Philatelic Academic Club.
14.08.2015 7:43
A bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church on a visit to the Philippines
From August 10 to 13, 2015, Bishop Sergiy of Solnechnogorsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate administrative secretariat, was on a visit to the Philippines, with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia.
13.08.2015 12:58
DECR staff member takes part in meeting of Old Believers from all over the world
On 7-10 August 2015, an international meeting of Old Believers took place in Ulan-Ude, marking the 250th anniversary of the arrival in Buryatia of the first Old-Rite settlers.