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21.03.2013 11:02

Moscow Patriarchate delegation takes part in the meeting of Pope Francis of Rome with representatives of Christian Churches and world religions

On 20 March 2013, Pope Francis of Rome met with representatives of Christian Churches and world religions who arrived from many countries to attend his enthronement.
20.03.2013 17:59

Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk meets with Pope Francis of Rome

Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk meets with Pope Francis of Rome On 20 March 2013, Pope Francis of Rome met with Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations (DECR). The meeting took place at the premises of Vatican Secretariat of State.
20.03.2013 13:30

DECR chairman meets with His Holiness Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople

On 20 March 2013, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, DECR chairman, currently in Italy to attend the enthronement of Pope Francis of Rome with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, met with His Holiness Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople at breakfast in the Vatican hotel “Domus…
20.03.2013 13:27

Members of the Russian Orthodox Church delegation read the Great Penitential Canon at the Church of St. Catherine in Rome

On 19 March 2013, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, visited the stavropegic Church of St. Catherine in Rome.
20.03.2013 12:29

DECR chairman meets with president of the Pontifical Council for the Family

On March 19, 2013, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations, who came to Italy for the enthronement of Pope Francis of Rome, paid a visit to the Rome representation of the Community of St. Egidio to meet there with the president of…
19.03.2013 16:01

Moscow Patriarchate delegation attended enthronement of Pope Francis of Rome

Moscow Patriarchate delegation attended enthronement of Pope Francis of Rome On March 19, 2013, a delegation of the Moscow Patriarchate led by the chairman of the Department for External Church Relations, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, attended the enthronement of Pope Francis of Rome, which took place on St. Peter’s Square in Rome.
19.03.2013 10:06

Chairman of the Imperial Orthodox Palestinian Society on a working visit to Palestine

Chairman of the Imperial Orthodox Palestinian Society on a working visit to Palestine Sergey Stepashin, head of Russia’s Account Chamber, was on a working visit to Palestine from March 13-15, 2013, in his capacity as chairman of the Imperial Orthodox Palestinian Society.
19.03.2013 8:17

Delegation of Moscow Patriarchate arrives in Rome

Delegation of Moscow Patriarchate arrives in Rome On 18 March 2013, a delegation of the Moscow Patriarchate headed by Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations (DECR), arrived in Rome to attend the enthronement of Pope Francis.
18.03.2013 2:03

On Forgiveness Sunday Patriarch Kirill celebrates Divine Liturgy at St. Daniel’s Monastery

On the Sunday of Forgiveness and the commemoration day of St. Daniel of Moscow, March 17, 2013, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, celebrated the Divine Liturgy in the Cathedral of the Trinity at the St. Daniel Monastery in Moscow.
18.03.2013 1:26

DECR vice-chairman meets with diplomats of EU member states

DECR vice-chairman meets with diplomats of EU member states On March 14, 2013, Hegumen Philaret (Bulekov), a vice-chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations, met with EU countries’ deputy ambassadors in Russia, at the residence of the head of the EU delegation to Russia.