Russian Orthodox Church

«Department for External Church Relations»

11 December 2021 year 19:09

Guests from the Foundation for Support of Christian Culture and Heritage venerate shrines of the Polish Orthodox Church

On December 10, with a blessing of His Beatitude Sava, Metropolitan of Warsaw and All Poland, a delegation of the Foundation for Support of Christian Culture and Heritage led by the Foundation’s executive director Ye. I. Skopenko visited the Ss Martha and Mary Convent on the Holy Grabarka Hill and the Convent of the Holy Great Martyr Catherine at the Zaleszany village.

11 December 2021 year 13:23

Primate of the Polish Orthodox Church receives in audience the DECR vice-chairman and a delegation of the Foundation for Support of Christian Culture and Heritage

On December 10, His Beatitude Metropolitan Sava of Warsaw and All Poland received in audience Archpriest Nikolay Balashov, vice-chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, and a delegation of the Foundation for Support of Christian Culture and Heritage led by the Foundation’s executive director, Ye. I. Skopenko.

11 December 2021 year 11:40

Rossiyskaya Gazeta cites a DECR representative’s story about persecutions against Christians in Africa

In its issue of December 9, Rossiyskaya Gazeta daily points out the unprecedented scale of persecutions carried out against Christians in a number of African countries. In particular, the newspaper cites the Rev. Dimitry Safonov, executive secretary of the Interreligious Council in Russia and secretary for interreligious relations of the Department for External Church Relations, who, in his remarks delivered at the Defend the Future conference, cited terrible figures: every minute, radicals throughout the world kill one Christian and in Africa over 10 Christians for their faith.

11 December 2021 year 10:33

Representative of DECR and a delegation of the Foundation of Support of Christian Culture and Heritage visit Zagreb

On December 9, in Zagreb, Croatia, vice-chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate Archpriest Nikolay Balashov and a delegation of the Foundation for Support of Christian Culture and Heritage led by the Foundation executive director Ye. I. Skopenko, visited the Cathedral of the Transfiguration of the Lord, the Serbian Orthodox Church Metropolitanate of Zagreb and Ljubljana.

10 December 2021 year 11:12

DECR vice-chairman and a delegation of the Foundation for Support of Christian Culture and Heritage meet with Bishop Gerasim of Gornji Carlovac

On December 8, Archpriest Nikolay Balashov, vice-chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, and a delegation of the Foundation for Support of Christian Culture and Heritage led by Foundation director Ye. I. Skopenko visited the Serbian Orthodox Church’s Diocese of Gornji Carlovac in Croatia.

9 December 2021 year 13:20

Bishop Jefrem of Banja Luka receives the DECR vice-chairman and a delegation of the Foundation for Support of Christian Culture and Heritage

On December 7, Archpriest Nikolay Balashov, vice-chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, and a delegation of the Foundation for Support of Christian Culture and Heritage led by the Foundation executive director Ye. I. Skopenko visited Banja Luka, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

9 December 2021 year 12:16

DECR chairman meets with State Duma deputies

On December 8, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, met with Ms. A. Kuznetsova, vice-chair of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Federal Assembly, and K. F. Zatulin, State Duma deputy, first vice-chairman of the Committee for the Affairs of the Commonwealth of Independent States, Eurasian Integration and Relations with Compatriots.

8 December 2021 year 11:39

Monastery of Blessed Matrona of Moscow visited by DECR vice-chairman and a delegation of the Foundation for Support of Christian Culture and Heritage

On December 7, Archpriest Nikolay Balashov, vice-chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, and a delegation of the Foundation for Support of Christian Culture and Heritage led by the Foundation’s executive director, Ye. I. Skopenko, on the invitation of Bishop Fotije of Zvornik and Tuzla, visited the Monastery of Blessed Matrona of Moscow at the village of Ritesic, Republika Serpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

7 December 2021 year 14:19

DECR representative and delegation of the Foundation for Support of Christian Culture and Heritage visit the St. Alexander Nevsky Monastery in Ugljevik

On December 6, the commemoration day of the Holy Prince Alexander Nevsky, Archpriest Nikolay Balashov, a vice-chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, and a delegation of the Foundation for Support of Christian Culture and Heritage led by the Foundation executive secretary Ye. I. Skopenko visited the monastery dedicated to this saint in the city of Ugljevik, Republika Srbska, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

7 December 2021 year 12:22

Christian students from Egypt visit Russia’s main military church

On December 5, a group of young believers of the Coptic Church who are studying in Moscow colleges visited the Patriarchal Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ at Kubinka near Moscow - the main military church of the Russian Federation Armed Forces.

6 December 2021 year 19:15

Patriarch Porfirije of Serbia receives in audience a DECR representative and a delegation of the Foundation for the Support of Christian Culture and Heritage

On December 6, His Holiness Porfirije, Patriarch of Serbia, received in audience the vice-chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, Archpriest Nikolay Balashov, and a delegation of the Foundation for Support of Christin Culture and Heritage led by Mr. E. I. Skopenko, executive director of the foundation.

6 December 2021 year 17:20

DECR chairman comments on media reports about a possibility of a meeting between His Holiness Patriarch Kirill and Pope Francis of Rome

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Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, commented on mass media reports concerning a possibility of a meeting between His Holiness Patriarch Kirill and Pope Francis of Rome.

6 December 2021 year 12:49

Митрополит Волоколамский Иларион: Активная кампания против вакцинации режиссируется из-за рубежа

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4 декабря в передаче «Церковь и мир», выходящей на канале «Россия 24» по субботам и воскресеньям, председатель Отдела внешних церковных связей Московского Патриархата митрополит Волоколамский Иларион ответил на вопросы ведущей Екатерины Грачевой и телезрителей.

6 December 2021 year 11:32

80th Birthday of Metropolitan Niphon of Philippopolis is celebrated at the Antiochian Representation in Moscow

On December 4, the Representation of the Antiochian Orthodox Church hosted a solemn reception to mark the 80th birthday of Metropolitan Niphon of Philippopolis, representative of the Patriarch of Antioch and All the East to the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia.

4 December 2021 year 13:27

His Holiness Patriarch Kirill celebrates Liturgy on the Feast of the Entry of the Most Holy Theotokos into the Temple

4 декабря, в праздник Введения во храм Пресвятой Богородицы и 104-ю годовщину со дня интронизации святителя Тихона, Патриарха Всероссийского, Святейший Патриарх Кирилл совершил Божественную литургию в кафедральном соборном Храме Христа Спасителя в Москве.