{"id":130317,"date":"2016-04-18T13:30:11","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T10:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mospat.ru\/?p=130317"},"modified":"2016-04-18T16:33:25","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T13:33:25","slug":"%d1%83%d1%87%d1%80%d0%b5%d0%b6%d0%b4%d0%b5%d0%bd%d0%b0-%d0%bd%d0%b0%d0%b3%d1%80%d0%b0%d0%b4%d0%b0-%d0%be%d1%82%d0%b4%d0%b5%d0%bb%d0%b0-%d0%b2%d0%bd%d0%b5%d1%88%d0%bd%d0%b8%d1%85-%d1%86%d0%b5%d1%80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/2016\/04\/18\/news130317\/","title":{"rendered":"Medal of St. Mark of Ephesus is instituted as an award of the Department for External Church Relations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The medal of St. Mark of Ephesus was instituted on 6 April 2016 with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia as an award of the Moscow Patriarchate\u2019s Department for External Church Relations (DECR).<\/p>\n<p>St. Mark of Ephesus, an outstanding defender of Orthodoxy, is an example to the DECR, the eldest Synodal institution of the Russian Orthodox Church. The year 2016 marks the 70<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the DECR.<\/p>\n<p>The medal will be awarded to the ordained and secular persons for achievements in external church activities; for cooperation between the church and secular authorities in international activity; for upholding consent and civil peace in society; for considerable contribution to the inter-Orthodox cooperation; for support of the compatriots living abroad; for contribution to the strengthening of peace and friendship among countries and nations; for active participation in church and secular diplomacy.<\/p>\n<p>St. Mark of Ephesus, in whose honour the medal was instituted, is commemorated on February 1 (January 19 old style). The medal was designed by artist Sergei Kurakin.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The medal of St. Mark of Ephesus was instituted on 6 April 2016 with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia as an award of the Moscow Patriarchate\u2019s Department for External Church Relations (DECR).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":130318,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130317"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}