21.10.2020 22:30
His Beatitude Patriarch John meets with the chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations
On October 20, 2020, with a blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, Chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk arrived in Damascus for a working visit.
13.10.2020 10:00
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill’s statement over the armed conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia issued a statement concerning the armed conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh.
27.09.2020 18:59
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill is praying for the soonest peaceful resolution of the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill is praying for the soonest peaceful resolution of the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, Mr. Vladimir Legoyda, acting head of the Press Service of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia and chairman of the Synodal Department for Church’s Relations with Society and Mass Media, told journalists on Sunday, September 27.
06.09.2020 17:36
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill meets with hierarchs of Belarusian Exarchate
On 6th September 2020, in the Hall of the Supreme Church Council of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia met with hierarchs of the Belarusian Orthodox Church.
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29.10.2020 18:04
Condolences of Patriarch Kirill over the death of people as a result of a terrorist action in Nice
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia has expressed condolences to President of the Republic of France Emmanuel Macron and to Bishop André Marceau of Nice over the death of people as a result of the armed attack in the Church of Notre Dame in Nice.
28.10.2020 17:44
Archbishop Chrysostomos of Cyprus: Position of the Russian Church on the Ukrainian autocephaly is fair and wholly justified
In connection with the fact that on October 24, 2020, His Beatitude Chrysostomos II, Archbishop of New Justiniana and All Cyprus, recognized one of the Ukrainian schismatic communities and with the comments he gave on this occasion to the press, published below is the text of the message of greeting…
26.10.2020 12:56
Moscow Patriarchate clergy took part in the funeral service for Metropolitan Theodosius (Lazor)
In the evening of October 22, in the Church of John the Baptist in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, the place of His Eminence Theodosius’s childhood and beginning of his church service, an assembly of hierarchs and clergy of the Orthodox Church in America, led by His Beatitude Tikhon, Archbishop of Washington and…
26.10.2020 10:05
Statement of hierarchs of the Orthodox Church of Cyprus on the Archbishop Chrysostomos’ liturgical mention of head of the so-called Orthodox Church of Ukraine Epifaniy Dumenko
On October 24, 2020, Metropolitan Athanasius of Limassol, Metropolitan Nikephoros of Kykkos and Bishop Nicholas of Amathounta made a joint statement on the recognition of the so-called Orthodox Church of Ukraine by Archbishop Chrysostomos II of Cyprus, calling him as Primate of the Orthodox Church of Cyprus to cancel immediately…
25.10.2020 18:01
Metropolitan Hilarion: For God there is nothing impossible
On October 25, 2020, the commemoration day of the holy fathers of the Seventh Ecumenical Council, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations, celebrated the Divine Liturgy in the church of Our Lady the Joy to All the Afflicted-In-Bolshaya-Ordynka, Moscow.
24.10.2020 16:13
Metropolitan Hilarion: Archbishop of Cyprus can be no longer liturgically mentioned in the Russian Orthodox Church
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, Chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations, speaks about a possible reaction of the Russian Orthodox Church to the recognition of the ‘OCU’ by the Church of Cyprus in his talk to RIA Novosti news agency.
24.10.2020 10:41
The first divine service is held in Turkish Samsun for Russian-speaking faithful of the Moscow Patriarchate
On October 23, 2020, the first ever divine service was celebrated in Turkish Samsun for the Russian-speaking faithful of the Moscow Patriarchate living on the Black Sea cost in Turkey.
23.10.2020 21:37
Metropolitan Anthony of Chersonesus and Western Europe meets with Lebanon’s ambassador in France
In the course of their talk, the hierarch expressed condolences over the tragedy that happened in August - the explosion in the port of Beirut that killed over two hundred peaceful residents.
23.10.2020 16:55
Patriarchal Exarch for Western Europe meets with head of Archdiocese of Western European Parishes of Russian Tradition
On October 22, 2020, a meeting took place between Metropolitan Anthony of Chersonesus and Western Europe, Patriarchal Exarch for Western Europe, and Metropolitan Ioann of Dubna, head of the Archdiocese of Western European Parishes of Russian Tradition.
23.10.2020 13:59
Online session of annual working meeting of Churches in Europe group of Russian-German forum ‘St. Petersburg Dialogue’
On October 22, 2020, the Churches in Europe group of the Russian-German forum of civic societies ‘St. Petersburg Dialogue’ held an annual working meeting in online format.