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20.06.2011 16:10

DECR chairman meets with Mr. László Sasfalvi, state secretary of Hungarian Ministry of Public Administration and Justice

On 19 June 2011, Metropolitan Hilarion, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations (DECR), met with Mr. László Sasfalvi, state secretary of Hungarian Ministry of Public Administration and Justice.
20.06.2011 16:00

European Council of Religious Leaders to meet in Moscow for the first time

The European Council of Religious Leaders will hold its annual meeting from June 21-21 in Moscow for the first time. As was proposed by the Russian Orthodox Church, the ECRL will consider Human Rights and Traditional Values in Europe.
20.06.2011 0:43

(Russian) Святейший Патриарх Кирилл поздравил митрополита Волоколамского Илариона с днем тезоименитства

(Russian) Святейший Патриарх Московский и всея Руси Кирилл направил поздравительное послание председателю Отдела внешних церковных связей Московского Патриархата митрополиту Волоколамскому Илариону по случаю именин.
19.06.2011 19:24

Metropolitan Hilarion commemorates his patron saint

Metropolitan Hilarion commemorates his patron saint On June 19, 2011, the commemoration day of all saints and St Hilarion the New, the Wonder-worker of Dalmatia, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations, celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the church of Our Lady the Joy to All the Afflicted-in-Bolshaya Ordynka,…
19.06.2011 18:32

(Russian) Делегация Русской Православной Церкви посетила пострадавшие от стихийного бедствия районы Сендайской епархии Японской Автономной Православной Церкви

(Russian) По благословению Святейшего Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла был организован сбор средств для оказания помощи пострадавшим вследствие стихийного бедствия.
19.06.2011 17:39

(Russian) Паломническая группа Николо-Угрешской духовной семинарии побывала в Болгарии

(Russian) Паломники из России поклонились мощам святых новомучеников Батакских.
19.06.2011 7:14

Metropolitan Hilarion meets with Primate of the Orthodox Church of Cyprus

On the same day, His Beatitude Chrysostom and His Eminence Hilarion visited St. Neophytos Monastery to take part in the celebrations on the occasion of the name-day of Bishop Leontios, the abbot of the monastery.
17.06.2011 22:29

Metropolitan Hilarion attends a meeting of the Joint Theological Commission for Orthodox-Catholic Dialogue’s drafting committee

Metropolitan Hilarion attends a meeting of the Joint Theological Commission for Orthodox-Catholic Dialogue’s drafting committee The committee discussed theological and ecclesiological aspects of primacy and conciliarity in the Church.
17.06.2011 17:26

Delegation from Evangelical Lutheran Church in Wurttemberg visits the Department for External Church Relations

Later that day the delegation of the Evangelical Church in Wurttemberg visited the Monastery of St. Daniel and St. Sergius’s Monastery of the Trinity as well as the Moscow Theological Academy and Seminary.
17.06.2011 16:08

Patriarch Kirill meets with new Apostolic Nuncio in Russia

Welcoming Archbishop Ivan Jurkovic, Patriarch Kirill said he kept good memories of and gave a high value to the archbishop’s contribution to the settlement of inter-confessional relations in the 1990s in Moscow and later in Ukraine. He also wished his guest successful tenure in Moscow as apostolic nuncio.