Russian Orthodox Church

«Department for External Church Relations»

16 January 2022 year 11:35

A new musical composition dedicated to St. Alexander Nevsky is performed in Moscow.

An oratorio entitled Under the Banner of St. Alexander, composed by Vladimir Borisovich Dovgan, was performed at the Moscow International House of Music as part of the XII Moscow Christmas Festival of Religious Music on January 15. The oratorio has been composed to mark the 800th anniversary of the birth of the right-believing Prince Alexander Nevsky.

14 January 2022 year 18:48

On the day of the 20th anniversary of his episcopal consecration, DECR chairman celebrates Liturgy at the church of Our Lady the Joy to All the Afflicted in Moscow

January the 14th, the Feast of the Circumcision of the Lord and the commemoration day of St. Basil the Great, marked the 20th anniversary of the episcopal consecration of Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk.

14 January 2022 year 10:00

Patriarchal congratulation to Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk on the 20th anniversary of his episcopal ministry

[Patriarch : Greetings and addresses]

His Holiness Kirill, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, congratulated the chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, on the 20th anniversary of his episcopal consecration.

10 January 2022 year 15:50

DECR chairman meets with Primate of the Armenian Catholic Church

On January 10, DECR chairman Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk met with His Beatitude Raphael Berdos, Catholicos Patriarch of Cilicia, who has come to Russia for the first time as Primate of the Armenian Catholic Church since he was elected to the Patriarchal see in September 2021.

10 January 2022 year 13:49

Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk presents a state award to the DECR secretary for inter-Orthodox relations

On January 10, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations (DECR), presented a state award to Archpriest Igor Yakimchuk, DECR secretary for inter-Orthodox relations.

8 January 2022 year 12:19

Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk: Everything needs to be done to preserve Christian presence in the Holy Land

On December 13, Patriarch Theophilos of Jerusalem and other heads of Christian Churches in Jerusalem came out with a statement drawing the attention of the state authorities and public to the threat to Christian presence in the Holy Land caused by the activities of radical groups, in particular, to the attempts to violate the identity of the Christian quarter of the Old City with the aim to eventually drive away the Christian community from Jerusalem.

6 January 2022 year 18:21

Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk: Every effort should be made to ensure that there is no war – either world, or local

[Interview]

“I think that we should do everything possible to ensure that there is no war – whether big or small, world or local,” said Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, commenting on the current explosive situation in international relations, and on the attempts to build strategic stability undertaken by the leaders of the Russian Federation and the United States.

3 January 2022 year 14:45

Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk recounts the formation of the Patriarchal Exarchate of Africa

The decision of the Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church to take 102 clerics of the Orthodox Church of Alexandria from eight African countries under the omophorion of the Moscow Patriarchate and to form a Patriarchal Exarchate of Africa has become resonant.

3 January 2022 year 12:18

Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk: We believe that the schism can be healed by the conciliar wisdom of the Church

[Interview]

Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, answers questions fr om a correspondent of the RIA Novosti news agency.

28 December 2021 year 15:41

A representative of the Russian Church takes part in a meeting of the Russian-Chinese Committee for Friendship, Peace and Development

On December 28, the 13th plenary session of the Russian-Chinese Committee for Friendship, Peace and Development took place in a videoconference format in Moscow, Beijing and Shenzhen.

28 December 2021 year 14:40

Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk: the two largest Christian Churches must cooperate - this is the imperative of the times

[Interview]

On December 25, on The Church and the World TV program shown on Saturdays and Sundays on “Rossiya-24”, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, Chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations (DECR), answered questions fr om the anchor Ekaterina Gracheva.

28 December 2021 year 10:08

Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk congratulates deputy chairman of the Department of External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate archpriest Nikolai Balashov on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday

On December 27, the chairman of the Department of External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate the metropolitan of Volokolamsk Hilarion congratulated the deputy chairman of the DECR archpriest Nikolai Balashov on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday.

27 December 2021 year 13:17

Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk: the Orthodox Christians and Catholics should interact to improve the situation of Christians in the Middle East

The results of his latest meeting with Pope Francis of Rome, which took place on December 22, were related by the DECR chairman on the air of the Church and the World TV program.

24 December 2021 year 12:22

An online conference held by Commission on Dialogue between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Coptic Church

On December 24, an online conference was held by members of the Commission for Dialogue between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Coptic Church.

23 December 2021 year 16:33

DECR Chairman completes his working trip to Rome

On December 23, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, Chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, completed his working trip to Rome.