Russian Orthodox Church

«Department for External Church Relations»

28 August 2021 year 13:28

Archpriest Nikolay Balashov on Patriarch Bartholomew’s speeches in Kiev

[Article]

Vice-chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate shares with RIA Novosti news agency his thoughts about the speeches made in Kiev by Patriarch Bartholomew whose visit was timed to the 30th anniversary of the independence of the country.

5 August 2021 year 14:15

Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk meets with Primate of the Orthodox Church of Jerusalem

On August 5, with a blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations, made a working trip to Jordan.

2 August 2021 year 19:27

Митрополит Волоколамский Иларион: Церковь воспитывает в людях не толерантность, а любовь

[Interview]

31 июля 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.

2 August 2021 year 15:35

Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk meets with first deputy head of the Muslim Board of the Russian Federation

On August 2, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, met with the first vice-chairman of the Muslim Board of the Russian Federation, Damir Mukhetdinov, at the DECR.

1 August 2021 year 14:12

Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk: Unification is impossible if one side considers the other ‘heretical’

[Interview]

Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk spoke in an interview with Kommersant daily about prospects for reunification of the Russian Orthodox Church and Old-Believers.

1 August 2021 year 12:23

Procession with the cross in Kiev has shown: Ukrainian Orthodox Church is the largest confession in Ukraine

July the 28th marked the Day of the Baptism of Rus’. On the eve of the feast, about 350 thousand faithful of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church walked in a procession with the cross along Kiev’s streets from the Vladimir Hill with its monument to Prince Vladimir Equal-to-the-Apostles who baptized Rus’ to the Kiev-Pechersk Laura.

29 July 2021 year 18:19

President of Billy Graham Evangelistic Association Franklin Graham visits Russia

From July 26 to 29, president of Billy Graham Evangelistic Association Franklin Graham was on a working visit to Russia. On July 26, Franklin Graham was received by Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations, at the parish house of the church of Our Lady the Joy to All the Afflicted-in-Bolshaya-Ordynka.

28 July 2021 year 15:36

Archbishop Of Vladikavkaz and Alana Leonid visits Armenia

On July 27 the deputy chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate and administrator of the Patriarchal deanery of the parishes of the Russian Orthodox Church in the Republic of Armenia the archbishop of Vladikavkaz and Alana Leonid went on a working visit to Armenia.

27 July 2021 year 16:13

Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk: Тhere is a place in the Church for every person with their talents and gifts

[Interview]

On July 24, on The Church and the World TV program shown on Saturdays and Sundays on “Rossiya-24”, Metropolitan Hilarion , Chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, answered questions from the anchor Ekaterina Gracheva.

26 July 2021 year 10:52

Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk: The most important task of the Church is to consolidate our unity

Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk answered questions put by Yekaterina Gracheva, host of “The Church and the World” TV programme, and called the anticanonical and brigand actions of Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, which have split the world Orthodoxy, the key challenge in the sphere of external activities of the Russian Orthodox Church.

25 July 2021 year 13:39

Head of Russia’s MFA Sergey Lavrov’s interview towards DECR chairman Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk’s 55th birthday

[Interview]

The minster of the foreign affairs of the Russian Federation’s interview with Rossiya 24 TV channel.

24 July 2021 year 20:43

Primates of Local Orthodox Churches wished the DECR chairman happy 55th birthday

On June 24, the commemoration day of the Holy Princess Olga Equal-to-the-Apostles, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate and rector of the Ss Cyril and Methodius Institute of Post-Graduate Studies, celebrated the Divine Liturgy in the church dedicated to Martyrs and Confessors Prince Michael of Chernigov and His Boyar Theodore the Wonderworkers, which is a part of the Patriarchal Metochion of the Martyrs of Chernigov.

24 July 2021 year 11:53

The premiere of the film “A Hierarch” about Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk to take place on July 24

The 24th July will mark the Metropolitan Hilarion’s 55th birthday. Timed to this significant date is the premiere of the documentary “A Hierarch” made by the Kultura TV channel.

24 July 2021 year 10:00

Patriarch wishes Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk happy 55th birthday

[Patriarch : Greetings and addresses]

His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia wished the chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, happy 55th birthday.

23 July 2021 year 17:24

Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk meets with France’s ambassador to Russia

On July 23, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations, visited the French embassy in Russia at the invitation of H. E. Pierre Levi, Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Republic of France in Russia.