Russian Orthodox Church

«Department for External Church Relations»

21 June 2019 year 12:45

DECR chairman meets with Ambassador of Denmark to Russia

On June 20, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations met with H.E. Carsten Søndergaard, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Kingdom of Denmark to the Russian Federation.

20 June 2019 year 16:43

Metropolitan Hilarion meets with a hierarch of the Assyrian Church of the East

On June 20, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk received Mar Ishaq Yusip (Assyrian Church of the East), Metropolitan of the diocese of Nohadra, Mosul and the CIS countries, at the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations.

20 June 2019 year 16:01

DECR chairman meets with Hungary’s Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjén

On June 20, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations has met with Hungary’s Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjén.

13 June 2019 year 20:08

DECR chairman meets with Secretary General of Eurasian People’s Assembly

The participants in the meeting discussed various issues of bilateral cooperation and signed a cooperation agreement between the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate and the Eurasian Peoples’ Assembly.

11 June 2019 year 20:38

Third meeting of Working Group for Cooperation between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Finland

On June 10-11, the Working Group for Cooperation between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Finland held its regular meeting at St. Petersburg Theological Academy.

11 June 2019 year 19:11

A hierarch of Serbian Orthodox Church visits Department for External Church Relations

On June 10, Bishop Arsenije of Nis, Serbian Orthodox Church, who is on a pilgrim trip to holy places of the Russian Orthodox Church, visited the St. Daniel Patriarchal Monastery and the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, in which he was received by Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk.

11 June 2019 year 18:53

Metropolitan Hilarion meets with newly appointed Russian ambassador to Serbia

On June 10, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations (DECR), received the Russian Federation Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary A. A. Botsan-Kharchenko, who is preparing to leave for his new duty station in Belgrade.

8 June 2019 year 19:27

Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk meets with Archbishop Chrysostomos of Cyprus

On June 7, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations (DECR), with a blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, arrived in Cyprus. The next day, Metropolitan Hilarion visited the Archdiocese of Cyprus to meet with His Holiness Chrysostomos, Archbishop of New Justiniana and All Cyprus.

7 June 2019 year 16:44

Metropolitan Hilarion meets with Primate of the Orthodox Church of Jerusalem

On June 6, with a blessing of His Holiness Kirill, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations, arrived in the Holy Land.

7 June 2019 year 13:03

Митрополит Волоколамский Иларион: Единство нашей Церкви мы унаследовали от предков и хотим передать потомкам

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Перед началом конференции «Россия — Украина — Белоруссия: общее цивилизационное пространство?» во Фрибурге (Швейцария) председатель Отдела внешних церковных связей Московского Патриархата митрополит Волоколамский Иларион дал интервью франкоязычному православному порталу Orthodoxie.com.

6 June 2019 year 12:16

Metropolitan Hilarion meets with General Secretary of World Council of Churches

On June 5, in Geneva, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, met with Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, General Secretary of the World Council of Churches.

5 June 2019 year 12:28

Митрополит Волоколамский Иларион: Храм — не только место совершения богослужений, но и центр социальной работы, общения прихожан

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1 июня 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 телеканала Екатерины Грачевой.

4 June 2019 year 19:44

Интервью митрополита Волоколамского Илариона Швейцарскому католическому информационному агентству

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Председатель Отдела внешних церковных связей Московского Патриархата митрополит Волоколамский Иларион в интервью Швейцарскому католическому информационному агентству, которое он дал в ходе пребывания в Швейцарии, где принимал участие в конференции «Россия — Украина — Белоруссия: единое цивилизационное пространство», ответил на вопросы о церковной ситуации на Украине.

4 June 2019 year 11:20

Commission for Dialogue between Russian Orthodox Church and Coptic Church holds its 3rd session

On May 27-31, the Commission for Dialogue between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Coptic Church held its 3rd session.

3 June 2019 year 11:12

Metropolitan Hilarion celebrated Divine Liturgy at the church of the Elevation of the Cross in Geneva

On June 2, the 6th Sunday after Pascha, the Blind Man, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations, celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the church of the Elevation of the Cross in Geneva, Switzerland, the cathedral church of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia diocese of Western Europe.