Russian Orthodox Church

«Department for External Church Relations»

6 October 2021 year 10:24

Митрополит Волоколамский Иларион: Вероятность того, что мир был создан без участия Бога, нулевая

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2 октября 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.

5 October 2021 year 17:45

State award conferred by President of the Russian Federation’s decree on representatives of Russian Orthodox Church

Hegumen Arseny (Sokolov), representative of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia to the Patriarch of Antioch, is awarded the Order of Friendship; Archpriest Nikolay Balashov, vice-chairman of the Department of External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, is awarded the Order of Alexander Nevsky; Archpriest Vladimir Nazarkin, assistant to the DECR chairman - the Order of Honour, reports the official internet-portal of legal information.

5 October 2021 year 11:03

Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk meets with president of Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity

On October 4, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations (DECR), who is in Italy for a working trip with a blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, met with the president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, Cardinal Kurt Koch.

5 October 2021 year 10:52

Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk: The Churches are seeking unity on the issue of climate change

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The “Faith and Science: Towards Cop26” meeting on climate change and attended by representatives of the world’s religions, scientists and experts, took place in the Vatican on 4th October 2021. Participating was the chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate the metropolitan of Volokolamsk Hilarion.

4 October 2021 year 17:26

Concern expressed in the Russian Orthodox Church for the destiny of Christian shrines in Kosovo

“Another spiral turn is untwisting before our eyes and leading to tragic consequences for the Serbian population in Kosovo, for the Serbian Orthodox Church and, generally, for Serbia” - this is how Metropolitan Hilarion assesses the new escalation of the conflict in Kosovo. In late September, the police of the self-proclaimed republic refused to let through to its territory the transport with Serbian registration numbers, which provoked protests of Serbs who live in Kosovo.

4 October 2021 year 16:27

Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk: The Holy Synod is to decide how the presence of the Russian Church in Africa is to be structured.

The Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church on the 23rd and 24th September adopted a resolution to examine the appeals of clerics of the Greek Orthodox Church of Alexandria to be received under the omophorion of the Moscow Patriarchate. The metropolitan of Volokolamsk Hilarion commented thus on this resolution on the The Church and the World programme on the Rossia-24 TV station.

4 October 2021 year 14:12

DECR chairman attends Climate Change Summit of Religious Leaders in Rome

On October 4, with a blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, attended the Summit of Religious Leaders held in anticipation of the 26th session of the UN Conference on Climate Change.

1 October 2021 year 15:42

Presentation of Chinese version of Patriarch Kirill’s book "In His Own Words"

On September 30, the Chinese version of Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia’s book In His Own Word was presented at the Chinese Patriarchal Metochion in Moscow.

1 October 2021 year 11:07

Святитель Амвросий Медиоланский и его вклад в становление церковного учения о приснодевстве Божией Матери

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30 сентября председатель Отдела внешних церковных связей Московского Патриархата, ректор Общецерковной аспирантуры и докторантуры им. святых равноапостольных Кирилла и Мефодия митрополит Волоколамский Иларион выступил с докладом на VII Международной патристической конференции «Святитель Амвросий Медиоланский и его богословское наследие».

27 September 2021 year 19:34

His Holiness Patriarch Kirill presents church awards to DECR chairman and his vice-chairmen

On September 27, the feast of the Exaltation of the Precious and Life-giving Cross, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the Cathedral Church of Christ the Saviour in Moscow.

27 September 2021 year 18:31

Митрополит Волоколамский Иларион: Нездоровый ажиотаж вокруг темы доходов Церкви чаще всего связан с антицерковными спекуляциями

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25 сентября 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.

27 September 2021 year 16:30

His Holiness Patriarch Kirill: Patriarch Bartholomew has lapsed into schism

Among the most important tasks facing the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate is “the work to overcome the schisms in the Universal Orthodoxy, which were generated by the unlawful, anti-canonical and, I would say, senseless invasion of the Patriarch of Constantinople into Ukraine”, noted His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia on September 27, during the ceremony of presenting church awards to the DECR chairman, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk and his vice-chairmen.

25 September 2021 year 12:20

DECR secretary for inter-Christian relations meets with representative of the Ethiopian Church

On September 22, DECR secretary for inter-Christian relations Hieromonk Stephen (Igumnov) met with the deputy chancellor of the Ethiopian Church and dean of Addis-Ababa, Rev. Ueldejesus Sefugalato, at the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate.

23 September 2021 year 11:06

Митрополит Волоколамский Иларион: В Александре Невском государственная мудрость сочеталась с личной святостью

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18 сентября 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.

22 September 2021 year 17:37

Chinese version of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill’s book In His Own Words to be presented in Moscow

On September 30, the presentation of the Chinese version of Patriarch Kirill of Moscow’s book In His Own Words will take place at the Chinese Patriarchal Metochion.