Russian Orthodox Church

«Department for External Church Relations»

21 September 2021 year 14:21

Достоевский и Евангелие

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Лекция председателя Отдела внешних церковных связей, ректора Общецерковной аспирантуры и докторантуры, президента Научно-образовательной теологической ассоциации митрополита Волоколамского Илариона в Московском энергетическом институте.

21 September 2021 year 11:19

Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk: Constantinople encroaches on others’ property

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During his visit to Hungary, Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople stated that the Cathedral Church of the Russian Orthodox Church’s diocese of Budapest and Hungary - the Cathedral of the Dormition in Budapest, “during the sad and hazy days of the Communist regime, because of the shady and perfidious machinations and unbearable pressure of the Soviet power, was forcibly purloined and wholly unlawfully and uncanonically subjected to the Moscow Patriarchate, which to this day continues to possess it sacrilegiously”.

20 September 2021 year 11:57

Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk: President of Montenegro works to divide the population of the country, on religious grounds in particular

On September 5, in the historical center of Montenegro – Cetinje – Metropolitan Joanikije was installed as Metropolitan of Montenegro and the Littoral. He had been elected by the Council of the Serbian Orthodox Church in place of the late Metropolitan Amfilohije. Radical forces supported by Milo Đukanović, the President of the country, who had been known for his unrelenting opposition to the canonical Church, tried to prevent the celebration of this occasion in Cetinje.

20 September 2021 year 10:42

Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk: the Patriarch of Constantinople claims special privileges akin to those of the pope

On September 16-17, a conference on the primacy and conciliarity in Orthodoxy took place at the Church of Christ the Saviour. Participants spoke in particular about the consequences of the Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople’s actions trampling upon the conciliar structure of the Church and destroying her canonical order.

19 September 2021 year 13:38

A Russian version of the book by a hierarch of the Church of Cyprus on the Ukrainian church issue has come out

The book entitled “Today’s Ukrainian Issue and Its Solution According to Divine and Holy Canons” devoted to the church schism in Ukraine has come out. Its author is Metropolitan Nikiforos of Kykkos and Tillyria, one of the most merited and authoritative hierarchs of the Orthodox Church of Cyprus, abbot of the ancient and glorious Kykkos Monastery honoured not only in Cyprus but also throughout the Orthodox world.

19 September 2021 year 12:46

Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk takes part remotely in a conference of patristic scholars in Vienna

On September 16-18, an international conference of patristic scholars took place in Vienna, Austria, devoted to exploring the topic of inherited sinfulness in the works of eastern and western Church Fathers. The conference was attended by leading patrologists from various countries.

17 September 2021 year 11:28

Выступление митрополита Волоколамского Илариона на презентации сборника «Воссоединение Киевской митрополии с Русской Православной Церковью. 1676-1686 г. Исследования и документы»

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16 сентября в Москве состоялась презентация сборника «Воссоединение Киевской митрополии с Русской Православной Церковью. 1676-1686 гг. Исследования и документы». К собравшимся обратился митрополит Волоколамский Иларион.

16 September 2021 year 17:19

Constantinople’s claims to power as a threat to Church unity

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Presentation by the chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate the metropolitan of Volokolamsk Hilarion at the ‘World Orthodoxy: Primacy and Conciliarity in the Light of Orthodox Dogmatic Teaching’ conference on September, 16.

16 September 2021 year 16:48

DECR chairman attends conference on World Orthodoxy: Primacy and Conciliarity in Light of Orthodox Teaching

On September 16, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations, took part in the conference held by the Synodal Biblical-Theological Commission on the theme “World Orthodoxy: Primacy and Conciliarity in the Light of the Orthodox Teaching”, which took place at the St. Sergius Hall of the Cathedral Church of Christ the Saviour in Moscow.

16 September 2021 year 14:30

His Holiness Patriarch Kirill opens conference on primacy and conciliarity in Orthodoxy

On September 16, the conference on “World Orthodoxy: Primacy and Conciliarity in the Light of Orthodox Teaching” began its work at the St. Sergius Hall of the Cathedral Church of Christ the Saviour in Moscow.

16 September 2021 year 11:12

Организация внешней деятельности Русской Православной Церкви на современном этапе

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Автор статьи — В.А. Кузнецов, корреспондент портала Отдела внешних церковных связей, кандидат политических наук, профессор Академии военных наук.

16 September 2021 year 10:36

DECR chairman meets with U.S. Ambassador to Russian Federation

On September 15, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations, met with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Russian Federation H. E. John Sullivan.

15 September 2021 year 11:18

Митрополит Волоколамский Иларион: Работа в церковном учреждении — это тоже служение Церкви

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11 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.

14 September 2021 year 17:52

Presentation of the Collection of documents about the Reunification of Kievan Metropolia with Russian Church in the 17th сentury will take place in Moscow

Within the framework of the conference on the “World Orthodoxy: Primacy and Conciliarity in the Light of Orthodox Teaching” of the Synodal Biblical-Theological Commission, a collection of documents – “Reunification of Kievan Metropolia with Russian Orthodox Church 1676-1686: Studies and Documents” – will be presented at the St. Sergius Hall of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior on September 16 at 5.00 p.m.

14 September 2021 year 17:09

His Holiness Patriarch Kirill will open a Conference on the Primacy and Conciliarity in Orthodoxy

A conference on “World Orthodoxy: Primacy and Conciliarity in the Light of Orthodox Teaching.” will open at the St. Sergius Hall of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior at 10 AM on September 16.