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18.06.2014 9:21
Hierarchs of the Serbian Orthodox Church visit Department for External Church Relations
On 17 June 2014, archpriest Nikolai Balashov, vice-chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, met with Bishop Joanikije of Budimlje and Niksic, who is leading a group of Orthodox clerics and laymen from Montenegro in their pilgrimage to the Russian Orthodox Church.
17.06.2014 13:33
Message of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia to the Fullness of the Russian Orthodox Church
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia blessed a special prayer for peace and the overcoming of internecine strife in Ukraine to be offered in all churches of the Russian Orthodox Church.
17.06.2014 13:25
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia chairs a regular session of the Supreme Church Council
(Russian) 17 июня 2014 года в зале Высшего Церковного Совета кафедрального соборного Храма Христа Спасителя в Москве под председательством Святейшего Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла началось очередное заседание Высшего Церковного Совета Русской Православной Церкви.
17.06.2014 11:18
Patriarch Kirill’s congratulations to Bashar Assad on his re-election as president of the Syrian Arab Republic
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russian has sent the following congratulatory message to Mr. Bashar Assad
15.06.2014 19:55
A Center for Orthodox Culture Studies to be established in Shanghai
On June 11, 2014, an agreement on the establishment of a Center for Orthodox Culture Studies at the Shanghai University of Foreign Languages was signed in a solemn ceremony in Shanghai between the University and the Patriarchal Council for Culture.
12.06.2014 17:34
Metropolitan Hilarion’s film “Orthodoxy in the British Islands” to premiere on Kultura TV channel
The documentary “Orthodoxy in the British Islands” will premiere at 22:05 on June 18, 2014, on the Rossiya-Kultura TV channel. The author of the film is Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, its producer Valeriy Shekhovtsev.
10.06.2014 21:49
DECR chairman attends the conference on Astrakhan and the Bagrations: the History of Two Burials
The conference is attended by bishops and clergy of the Russian and Georgian Orthodox Churches, as well as prominent scholars and experts from Russia and Georgia.
10.06.2014 16:47
Rector of Moscow Theological Academy arrives in Macedonia
The Russian Orthodox Church delegation will stay in Macedonia till June 13. They will see the sights in Skopje and Ohrid and visit the Monastery of St. Naum of Ohrid and other Orthodox holy places in Macedonia.
10.06.2014 14:30
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill congratulates President Elect of the Arab Republic of Egypt
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia sent the following greeting to President Elect of the ARE
07.06.2014 0:39
Primates of the Syrian Catholic and Assyrian Churches meet in Moscow
On 8 June 2014, Mor Ignatius Joseph III, Patriarch of the Syrian Catholic Church, making a pilgrimage to Russia, and Mar Dnkha IBV, Patriarch-Catholics of the Assyrian Church of the East, paying an official visit to the Russian Orthodox Church, met at lunch in ‘Danilovskaya’ hotel.