{"id":95729,"date":"2013-12-15T13:54:49","date_gmt":"2013-12-15T09:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mospat.ru\/?p=95729"},"modified":"2013-12-16T18:10:38","modified_gmt":"2013-12-16T14:10:38","slug":"nachalas-rabochaya-poezdka-mitropolita-volokolamskogo-ilariona-v-vengriyu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/2013\/12\/15\/news95729\/","title":{"rendered":"Metropolitan Hilarion begins his working visit to Hungary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mospat.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMG_9562.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-95730\" style=\"margin: 9px;\" alt=\"IMG_9562\" src=\"https:\/\/mospat.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMG_9562.jpg\" width=\"280\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMG_9562.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMG_9562-158x114.jpg 158w, https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMG_9562-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMG_9562-1024x738.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a>On 14<sup>th<\/sup> December 2013, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate\u2019s Department for External Church Relations (DECR), arrived in Budapest at the invitation of the Deputy Prime Minister of Hungary, Zsolt Semj\u00e9n, and with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia. Meeting Metropolitan Hilarion were Zoltan Challokeze, head of Mr. Semj\u00e9n\u2019s cabinet, Ms Martha Linke from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Mr. Valery Platonov, cultural attach\u00e9 of the Russian embassy in Budapest.<\/p>\n<p>That same day, the DECR chairman had a working meeting with Mr. Antal Rog\u00e1n, Mayor of the 5<sup>th<\/sup> District of Budapest and parliamentary leader of FIDESZ- Hungarian Civic Union, the leading political party. During substantive talk they discussed topical international problems, focusing on the situation around Syria, various issues of the Russian-Hungarian cooperation, and moral climate in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Rog\u00e1n expressed his willingness to render financial assistance to the final phase of restoration of the spire of the Cathedral of the Dormition of the Mother of God of the Russian Orthodox Church\u2019s Diocese of Budapest and Hungary. The Cathedral is located in the 5<sup>th<\/sup> District.<\/p>\n<p>The DECR chairman is accompanied by his assistant, deacon Alexander Karzan; Mr. Leonid Sevastianov, executive director of the St. Gregory the Theologian Charity Foundation; and Miguel Palacio, a staff member of the DECR secretariat for far abroad countries.<\/p>\n<p>Metropolitan Hilarion\u2019s visit will last till December 16 and include meetings with Viktor Orb\u00e1n, Prime Minister of Hungary; his deputy Zsolt Semj\u00e9n; L\u00e1szl\u00f3 K\u00f6v\u00e9r, chairman of the Hungarian Parliament; and Cardinal P\u00e9ter Erd\u00f6, Archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meeting Metropolitan Hilarion were Zoltan Challokeze, head of Mr. Semj\u00e9n\u2019s cabinet, Ms Martha Linke from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Mr. Valery Platonov, cultural attach\u00e9 of the Russian embassy in Budapest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[96,16,1,12,102],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95729"}],"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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}