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04.08.2010 11:43
Thanksgiving to commemorate Righteous Admiral Fyodor Ushakov’s victory over Ottoman Fleet
On July 31, 2010, an anniversary of the heroic victory of the Righteous Admiral Fyodor Ushakov over the Ottoman Fleet, Metropolitan Kirill of Varna and Veliki Preslav, Bulgarian Orthodox Church, celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the Bolgarevo village near Kaliakra Cape.
03.08.2010 16:06
Metropolitan Hilarion takes part in the meeting of Presidential Council for Cooperation with Religious Associations
On 3 August 2010, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate's Department for External Church Relations, took part in the meeting of the Presidential Council for cooperation with Religious Associations.
03.08.2010 15:32
Commemoration service for Alexander Solzhenitsyn
On August 3, 2010, the second anniversary of the death of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the abbot of the Donskoy Monastery in Moscow, Bishop Kirill of Pavlov Posad, assisted by the monastic community, said the Office of the Dead at the writer’s grave.
02.08.2010 16:15
Greek hierarch makes donation to the victims of forest fires in Russia
On 1 August 2010, Metropolitan Nikolaos of Mesogaia and Laureotiki, leading pilgrims of the Greek Orthodox Church, who arrived in the Nizhny Novgorod diocese to celebrate the commemoration day of St. Seraphim of Sarov, handed over his own money to the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church as a donation…
01.08.2010 22:47
Metropolitan Hilarion: ‘We hold dear St. Seraphim of Sarov’s spirit of joy which the modern man is lacking so much’
On August 1, 2010, the Day of the Founding of St. Seraphim of Sarov’s Relics, Metropolitan Hilarion, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations, celebrated the Divine Liturgy in the church of Our Lady the Joy to All the Afflicted in Bolshaya Ordynka Street in Moscow.
01.08.2010 14:45
Patriarchal Appeal Concerning the Drought and Forest Fires in Russia
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia has addressed the following appeal to all the faithful of the Russian Orthodox Church concerning the natural disasters – the drought and large-scale forest fires.
30.07.2010 19:17
DECR chairman meets with Iranian ambassador in Russia
On July 30, 2010, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations, met with the Iranian Ambassador to the Russian Federation, H. E. Mahmoud-Reza Sajjadi.
30.07.2010 17:32
Press-conference summing up Patriarch Kirill’s visitation of Ukrainian Orthodox Church
A press-conference on the results of Patriarch Kirill’s visit to Ukraine was held on July 30, 2010, at the Interfax news agency. The visit took place from July 20 to 28 on the invitation of the Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and its dioceses.
30.07.2010 11:44
Metropolitan Hilarion’s condolences over explosion in church of Protecting Veil in Zaporozhie
An explosion went off during vespers on July 28, 2010, in the church of the Protecting Veil in Zaporozhie. Nine people were injured and Sister Liudmila Donets died of the wounds. Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Department for External Church Relations, expressed condolences over the tragedy.
30.07.2010 11:42