Russian Orthodox Church

«Department for External Church Relations»

24 November 2018 year 20:55

Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk arrives in Pyongyang

On November 24, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk arrived in Pyongyang.

24 November 2018 year 16:29

Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk celebrates Divine Liturgy at Holy Dormition Church in Beijing

On November 23–24, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, made a brief stop in Beijing on his way from Seoul to Pyongyang.

24 November 2018 year 12:05

Выступление митрополита Волоколамского Илариона на открытии круглого стола «Русская Православная Церковь и соотечественники: опыт соработничества в Юго-Восточной Азии, Австралии и Океании»

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Круглый стол прошел 23 ноября в столице Республики Корея Сеуле под председательством митрополита Волоколамского Илариона, председателя Отдела внешних церковных связей Московского Патриархата.

23 November 2018 year 12:47

Representative of Russian Orthodox Church attends global forum of UN Alliance of Civilizations in New York

On November 19-20, the UN Alliance of Civilizations held a global forum on Partnership for Conflict Prevention and Sustaining Peace at the UN headquarters in New York. It gathered together over one thousand political, religious and public figures from UN member states.

22 November 2018 year 16:19

DECR chairman begins his working visit to the Korean Peninsula

On November 22, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations (DECR) arrived in Seoul. Metropolitan Hilarion leads a delegation of the Russian Orthodox Church to the Round Table “Russian Orthodox Church and Compatriots. Experience of Cooperation in Southeast Asia, Australia and Oceania.”

19 November 2018 year 17:32

Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk meets with His Beatitude Archbishop of Cyprus and visits the metochion of the Kykkos Monastery

On November 19, His Beatitude Chrysostomos II, Archbishop of New Justiniana and All Cyprus, received Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations. The same day later Metropolitan Hilarion visited the metochion of the Kykkos Monastery in the capital of Cyprus, Nicosia.

19 November 2018 year 10:41

Delegation headed by Metropolitan Hilarion brings humanitarian aid to boarding school in Syria

Headed by Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, the delegation that was in Damascus from November 17 to 18, brought a consignment of humanitarian supply including winter clothes and toys to the boarding school for children of fallen servicemen in Damascus.

19 November 2018 year 10:33

The 60th anniversary of the Russian Orthodox Church representation celebrated in Damascus

On November 18, festive events to mark the 60th anniversary of the Damascus Representation of the Russian Orthodox Church were held in the Syrian capital city. The Divine Liturgy at the Representation’s church of the Holy Martyr Ignatius the God-Bearer was celebrated by His Holiness John X, Patriarch of Antioch and All the East.

19 November 2018 year 10:11

Heads and high-ranking representatives of religious communities in Syria and Russia meet in Damascus for conference

On November 17, a conference of the heads and high-ranking representatives of traditional religious communities in Syria and the interreligious delegation from Russia, headed by Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations (DECR), took place at the main hall of the Patriarchate of Antioch at the Cathedral of the Dormition in Damascus.

18 November 2018 year 17:54

DECR chairman meets with Minister of Awqaf and Grand Mufti of Syria

On November 17, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, visited the Ministry of Awqaf of the Syrian Arab Republic and met with the Minister, Dr. Mohammad Abdul-Sattar al-Sayyed. That same day DECR chairman met with the Grand Mufti of Syria Sheikh Ahmad Badreddin Hassoun.

18 November 2018 year 11:07

Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk meets with Primate of Orthodox Church of Antioch

On November 17, with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, arrived in Damascus on a working visit.

17 November 2018 year 10:14

DECR chairman meets with Primate of Coptic Church

On November 16, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, met with the Primate of the Coptic Church, His Holiness Patriarch Tawadros II, at his residence in Cairo.

16 November 2018 year 13:25

DECR chairman visits Russian Embassy in Cairo

On November 15, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, visited, while in Egypt, the Russian Embassy in Cairo and met with Mr. Sergei Kirpichenko, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to Egypt.

16 November 2018 year 11:53

Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk meets with His Beatitude Patriarch Theodore of Alexandria

On November 15, with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, arrived in Cairo on a working visit.

14 November 2018 year 17:55

Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk: Patriarch Bartholomew’s actions do not heal the schism but rather deepen it

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Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations, gives interview to Romfea, a Greek church news agency.