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03.04.2014 14:15
Primates of the Serbian and Polish Orthodox Churches respond to the election of Locum Tenens of the Kievan Metropolitan See
The Primates of the Serbian and Polish Orthodox Churches have sent messages to His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia responding to the election of Metropolitan Onufry of Chernovtsy and Bukovina as Locum Tenens of the Kievan Metropolitan See due to the illness of His Beatitude Metropolitan Vladimir…
03.04.2014 13:33
Chairman of the Department for External Church Relations receives Latvia’s ambassador Ms Astre Kurme
Ms Kurme conveyed a letter from Latvia’s President Andris Berzins to His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia.
02.04.2014 18:30
Metropolitan Hilarion meets French church and public figures
Metropolitan Hilarion welcomed the guests to the Synodal department responsible for the Russian Orthodox Church’s external relations.
02.04.2014 0:43
His Beatitude Patriarch John X of Antioch receives delegation from Russia
On 31 March 2014, His Beatitude Patriarch John X of Antioch and All the East received in his residence in Balamand, Lebanon, a delegation of the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society (IOPS), led by its chairman Mr. Sergei Stepashin, the website of the Representation of the Russian Orthodox Church in Beirut…
01.04.2014 23:17
Serbian Ambassador visits Department for External Church Relations
The participants in the meeting discussed various developments in the life of the Russian Orthodox Church and inter-Orthodox relations.
01.04.2014 13:01
Pilgrims from Russia visit Orthodox churches in China
The pilgrims visited the Church of the Dormition of the Mother of God in Beijing, the Church of the Intercession in Harbin, the Chapel of St. John the Baptist in the Orthodox part of the city cemetery, where they prayed for Orthodox Christians buried there, and several more churches.
30.03.2014 23:04
Representatives of Local Orthodox Churches congratulate Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk on the fifth anniversary of his appointment as DECR chairman
Metropolitan Hilarion thanked all the worshippers for their prayers and support.
28.03.2014 4:56
Meeting of Commission of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church on dialogue with Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kievan Patriarchate and Ukrainian Autonomous Orthodox Church takes place
On 26 March 2014, a business meeting of Commission of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church on dialogue with Ukrainian communities outside ecclesial communion took place at the Assumption Laura of the Caves in Kiev.
27.03.2014 16:24
(Russian) В храме иконы Пресвятой Богородицы «Всех скорбящих Радость» на Ордынке будет исполнена «Всенощная» Рахманинова
(Russian) «Всенощное бдение» С.В. Рахманинова прозвучит за богослужением в субботу 29 марта в исполнении Московского синодального хора и Хора колледжа Винчестер (Великобритания).
25.03.2014 23:46
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill meets with Syrian Ambassador to Russia
On 25th March 2014, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia met with Dr. Riad Haddad, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Syrian Arab Republic to the Russian Federation.