Russian Orthodox Church

«Department for External Church Relations»

5 September 2018 year 15:33

26th International Symposium on Orthodox Spirituality started at Bose

On September 5, the 26th International Symposium on Orthodox Spirituality was opened at the Monastery of the Holy Transfiguration in Bose under the theme ‘Discernment and the Christian Life’. It is attended by high-ranking representatives of Local Orthodox Churches, the Roman Catholic Church, the Anglican Church and Protestant communities as well as outstanding theologians and church historians.

2 September 2018 year 19:07

Metropolitan Hilarion meets with chairman of Iran’s Islamic Culture and Relations Organization

On September 2, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, rector of Ss. Cyril and Methodius Theological Institute of Postgraduate Studies, met with Dr. Abouzar Ebrahimi Torkaman, head of Iran’s Islamic Culture and Relations Organization, who also acts as cochairman of the Joint Russian-Iranian Commission for Orthodoxy-Islam Dialogue.

2 September 2018 year 12:10

Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk: We very much hope that the unity of unversal Orthodoxy will be preserved

[Interview]

On September 1, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations, during his Church and the World talk show aired on the Russia-24 TV channel on Saturdays and Sundays, answered questions from the channel anchor Yekaterina Gracheva.

31 August 2018 year 23:05

Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk: It was a talk from heart to heart

August 31 – During a meeting with journalists, which took place at the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, the DECR chairman Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk told them about the meeting of the primates of the Church of Constantinople and the Russian Orthodox Church. The meeting has taken place today at the building of the Patriarchate of Constantinople in the Phanar quarter in Istanbul.

28 August 2018 year 12:02

DECR chairman had a meeting with Indonesian ambassador

On August 27, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations (DECR), met with Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Republic of Indonesia in Russia Mohamad Wahid Supriyadi.

27 August 2018 year 18:22

DECR chairman meets with Ayatollah Sayyed Mussawi

On August 27, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations, received Ayatollah Sayyed Javadi Mussawi, an Iranian academic figure.

27 August 2018 year 16:33

DECR chairman meets with Italia’s ambassador to Russia

August 27 – Metropolitan Hilarion, head of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations, met with newly appointed Italian Ambassador to Russia Pasquale Terracciano.

27 August 2018 year 15:27

Roman Catholic attendees of annual Summer Institute visit Department for External Church Relations

August 27 – A delegation of the clergy and laity of the Roman Catholic Church visited the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations.

20 August 2018 year 10:36

DECR chairman meets with a group of Christian figures from Switzerland

On August 19, the Day of the Transfiguration of the Lord, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations, met with a group of Christian figures from Switzerland.

30 July 2018 year 17:47

Митрополит Волоколамский Иларион: Никакие политические лидеры не вправе отнять у нас церковное единство

[Interview]

28 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 телеканала Екатерины Грачевой.

30 July 2018 year 09:31

Primate of the Orthodox Church of Alexandria completes his visit to Moscow

His Beatitude Patriarch Theodoros II of Alexandria and All Africa completed his stay in Moscow on July 29.

28 July 2018 year 12:04

Митрополит Волоколамский Иларион: Конфликты уйдут, а единство народов Руси останется

[Interview]

Председатель Отдела внешних церковных связей Московского Патриархата митрополит Волоколамский Иларион дал интервью РИА «Новости».

27 July 2018 year 11:35

Patronal feast celebrated at Antioch church representation

On July 26, the Day of the Synaxis of the Archangel Gabriel, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations, with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, presided over the Divine Liturgy at the church of the Archangel Gabriel, the Moscow representation of the Orthodox Church of Constantinople.

26 July 2018 year 18:35

Primate of Orthodox Church of Alexandria arrives in Moscow

On July 26, His Beatitude Theodoros II, Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, arrived in Moscow for the celebrations devoted to the 1030th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus’.

25 July 2018 year 12:13

Russian Orthodox Church representatives take part in discussion at the conference of leaders of Rossotrudnichestvo representations abroad

On July 24, leaders and representatives of the Rossotrudnichestvo missions held a section discussion on Support for Representatives of Partner Non-Commercial Organizations in Developing and Promoting International Humanitarian Projects, as part of their annual meeting at the press center of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.