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13.08.2014 12:31
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill prays for the Bishops’ Council of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church
On 13 August 2014, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia prayed in the Church of Ss Cyril and Methodius Equal-to-the-Apostles at the Patriarchal and Synodal Spiritual, Administrative and Cultural Centre of the Russian Orthodox Church in the south of Russia for the Bishops’ Council of the Ukrainian…
13.08.2014 11:35
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill celebrates requiem service on the 40th day since the demise of Metropolitan Vladimir of Kiev and All Ukraine
On 13 August 2014, the 40th day since the demise of His Beatitude Metropolitan Vladimir of Kiev and All Ukraine, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia celebrated requiem service in the Church of Ss Cyril and Methodius Equal-to-the-Apostles at the Patriarchal and Synodal Spiritual, Administrative and Cultural…
11.08.2014 15:03
Russian Monastery of St. Panteleimon on Mount Athos celebrates its patron saint’s day
With a blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, a Russian Orthodox pilgrim group led by Metropolitan Veniamin of Ryazan and Mikhailovo has arrived at the Russian Monastery of St. Panteleimon on Holy Mount Athos to take part in the celebrations devoted to the monastery’s patron…
09.08.2014 16:47
Patriarchal congratulations to abbot of Russian Monastery of St Panteleimon on its patron saint’s day
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia has sent the following congratulatory message to the abbot of the Russian Monastery of St. Panteleimon, Archimandrite Jeremiah, on the occasion of the commemoration day of the monastery’s patron saint, the Holy Protomartyr and Healer Panteleimon
09.08.2014 16:45
Metropolitan Hilarion’s greetings to Russian Monastery of St. Panteleimon on Mount Athos on the day of its patron saint
In his message to the abbot of the Russian Monastery of St. Penteleimon on Holy Mount Athos, Archimandrite Jeremiah, the head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, greets him, the brethren and numerous pilgrims on the occasion of the commemoration day of the…
08.08.2014 15:56
Administrator of the Patriarchal Parishes in the USA, Bishop John of Naro-Fominsk, arrives in America to begin his service
On 6 August 2014, Bishop John of Naro-Fominsk, Administrator of the Patriarchal parishes in the USA, arrived in the United States where he will carry out his archpastoral ministry. Meeting him at the John F. Kennedy International Airport were archpriest George Konyev, Chancellor of the Patriarchal Parishes in the USA,…
05.08.2014 16:15
Metropolitan Hilarion: Middle East and Ukraine – parts of the same strategy
The causes of the wide spread of radical Islamist ideologies and ways of solving the problem; the military conflicts in the Middle East as related to the escalation of violence in Ukraine; the fate of the kidnapped Metropolitans of Syria are subjects of the interview given to RIA-Novosti by the…
05.08.2014 12:32
Statement by Synodal Information Department Regarding the Death of Orthodox Priest and Threats to Religious Peace in Ukraine
The number of victims of the civil confrontation in Ukraine is multiplying every day. On July 31st, a cleric of the Church of St. George in the Lugansk diocese, archpriest Vladimir Kresliansky, died of wounds received during the shelling of residential areas of Lugansk.
05.08.2014 11:12
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill’s condolences over earthquake in China’s Yunnan province
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia expressed his condolences to Mr.Xi Jinping, President of the People’s Republic of China, over a devastating earthquake in south-west China.
05.08.2014 11:10
Metropolitan Hilarion expresses condolences to Premier of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China over earthquake in Yunnan province
In his message to Mr. Li KEQIANG, Premier of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, expressed his condolences over a devastating earthquake in Yunnan province, as a result of which several hundred people…