{"id":59158,"date":"2012-02-28T11:27:08","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T07:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mospat.ru\/?p=59158"},"modified":"2012-03-03T20:31:41","modified_gmt":"2012-03-03T16:31:41","slug":"predsedatel-ovcs-rasskazal-uchashhimsya-moskovskikh-dukhovnykh-shkol-o-sovremennom-polozhenii-kitajjskojj-avtonomnojj-pravoslavnojj-cerkvi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/2012\/02\/28\/news59158\/","title":{"rendered":"DECR chairman tells the students of Moscow theological schools about the current situation of Chinese Autonomous Orthodox Church"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>On 21 February 2012, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate\u2019s Department for External Church Relations, delivered a lecture\u00a0 on \u2018An Era of New Martyrdom. Discrimination of Christians in Various Parts of the World\u2019 to the faculty and students of the Moscow theological schools. Answering the questions after the lecture, the DECR chairman touched upon the issues of pastoral care for the Orthodox compatriots in China and the situation of the Chinese Autonomous Orthodox Church.<\/p>\n

Metropolitan Hilarion noted that the Russian Orthodox Church and the People\u2019s Republic of China carry on a dialogue on the revival of the Chinese Orthodox Church: \u201cOur aim in this dialogue is to give an opportunity to Orthodox faithful in China, our compatriots and Chinese people, to practice their faith freely\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Archpastor said with regret that the current situation in China \u201cis not very favourable\u201d: \u201cMany Orthodox churches in China are either closed or function nominally, without priests. I happened to visit such churches and talk to the faithful who come on Sundays to light candles and pray at icons. However services are not celebrated in these churches because there are no clerics there.\u201d<\/p>\n

So far the attempts, made by the hierarchy of the Russian Orthodox Church to come to an agreement with the authorities of the People\u2019s Republic of China about sending priests to China, were met with some resistance. \u201cToday we see some progress in this dialogue. For example, very soon two students will be sent to Russia to study at the Moscow and St.-Petersburg Theological Academies. We hope they might become priests after graduation and serve in China\u201d, the DECR chairman said. He regards this fact as \u201cthe first and cautious steps\u201d in normalizing the situation of the Chinese Autonomous Church.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Answering the questions after the lecture, the DECR chairman touched upon the issues of pastoral care for the Orthodox compatriots in China and the situation of the Chinese Autonomous Orthodox Church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59158"}],"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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}