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21.10.2013 16:11
3d advanced courses for newly-installed bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church
21 October 2013 – With the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, the 3d two-day advanced course for newly-installed bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church opened at the Ss Cyril and Methodius Institute of Post-Graduate and Doctoral Studies.
21.10.2013 16:06
First ever Orthodox prayer service is celebrated in Kimgansan
Bishop Innokenty of Ussuri, a vicar of the Vladivostok diocese, visited the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea from October 9 through 16 at the invitation of the DPRK Orthodox Committee and the Orthodox parish in Pyongyang. The visit was timed to the 65th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations…
21.10.2013 12:35
Metropolitan Hilarion: the unique role of the Russian Orthodox Church is that it unites the peoples of the post-Soviet space
On October 19, 2013, Metropolitan Hilarion as the host of the Church and the World talk show on Vesti-24 TV channel had as his guest Fedor Lukyanov, journalist and political scientist, chairman of the Council for Foreign and Defence Policy. Below is the abridged text of their talk.
18.10.2013 16:48
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk meets with Ambassador Bolot Junusov of Kyrgyzstan to Russia
On 18 October 2013, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations (DECR), met with H. E. Bolot Junusov, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Kyrgyz Republic to the Russian Federation.
18.10.2013 13:34
Archbishop Elisey of Sourozh takes part in the 7th meeting of Pan-Orthodox Episcopal Assembly for Britain and Ireland
Bishops of the Greek, Russian and Romanian Orthodox Churches discussed a range of subjects including educational leaflets on Baptism and Marriage, coordination of Orthodox prison ministry and pastoral recommendations on partaking of Holy Communion, website of the Sourozh diocese reports.
18.10.2013 13:24
Georgian Patriarch opens in Tbilisi exhibition of Russian icons
On 15 October 2013, an exhibition “The ‘Measured Icon’: Its History and Its Present”, organized by the Russian Club of Orthodox Maecenases, was presented at the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Tbilisi. Opening the exhibition was His Holiness and Beatitude Catholicos-Patriarch Ilia II of Georgia. Hieromonk Stefan (Igumnov), a DECR staff…
17.10.2013 17:11
DECR chairman sends condolences over the death of Mr. Wilfried Martens, President of the European People’s Party
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, sent a message of condolences to Ms. Smet over the demise of her spouse, Mr. Wilfried Martens, President of the European People’s Party.
16.10.2013 13:49
Metropolitan Varsonofy of Saransk and Mordovia celebrates Divine Liturgy in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre
On 12 October 2013, Metropolitan Varsonofy of Saransk and Mordovia, chancellor of the Moscow Patriarchate, arrived in the Holy Land. That same day he met with His Beatitude Theophilos III, Patriarch of the Holy City of Jerusalem and All Palestine.
16.10.2013 13:18
DECR representative takes part in the celebration in Georgia
On 14 October 2013, the Georgian Orthodox Church celebrated the feast of Mtskhetoba-Svetitsokhoveli dedicated to the great shrines of the Life-Creating Pillar and the Chiton of the Lord, which was brought to Georgia in the 1st century. The feast is celebrated in Mtskheta, the ancient capital and spiritual centre of…
16.10.2013 12:04
Representative of the Russian Orthodox Church meets with Bulgarian deputy minister of economy and energy
On 15 October 2013, archimandrite Filipp (Vasiltsev), representative of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia to the Bulgarian Patriarchate, met with Mr. Botev, deputy minister of economy, energy and tourism of Bulgaria.