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The arrest of Metropolitan Arseny of Sviatohirsk, abbot of the Holy Assumption Sviatohirsk Lavra, is unjustified, unlawful and political in nature, the statement of the International Human Rights Alliance "Church against Xenophobia and Discrimination" says.
25.04.2024
Statement by Department for Church’s Relations with Society and Mass Media concerning detention of Metropolitan Arseny of Sviatohirsk, abbot of Sviatohirsk Lavra
24.04.2024
On 20th April 2024, in the town of Luanshya, a meeting of the Zambian clergy took place under the chairmanship of Metropolitan Konstantin of Zaraisk, Patriarchal Exarch of Africa.
22.04.2024
Parishioners and guests of Russian Church’s parish in Johannesburg take part in Total Dictation
22.04.2024
Mr Leonid Anatolyevich Bulygin, one of the oldest staff members of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, passed away on the 19th of March 2024. More than 40 years of his life, from 1973 to 2017, had been devoted to zealous work in the area of external church relations.
16.04.2024
Memorial service held on 15th anniversary of the death of Alexei Buevsky, a long-time DECR staff member
10.04.2024
April 6th, 2024, marked the 130th anniversary of the demise of Archimandrite Antonin (Kapustin), a prominent figure of the Russian Orthodox Church of the 19th century. The clergy of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission celebrated a memorial service at his grave in the Convent of the Ascension on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem.
07.04.2024
Patriarchal Exarch of Southeast Asia visited the Indonesian island of Timor for the first time
04.04.2024
Protopresbyter Ioannis K. Diotis. Theologian, social commentator, writer and publisher. Recipient of awards from the Academy of Sciences of Athens for his activities.
25.12.2023 • Reviews
Article by Vakhtang V. Kipshidze, vice-chairman of the Synodal Department for Church’s Relations with Society and Mass Media
16.11.2023 • Reviews
An article by Matthew Namee
28.10.2022
In the course of debates on the order of acceptance into the Church of persons ordained in schismatic communities one can often hear references to various precedents in history. For instance, the defenders of the position of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, which had received members of the UOC KP and UAOC into communion without reordination, cite examples of acceptance in the present dignity of persons ordained by schismatics and even by heretics. Yet, in most cases these examples do not seem to be convincing upon closer look.
29.05.2022 • Reviews
Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia
The Church’s communication with the world external to her is a special but integral part of Orthodox mission. This ministry is not always the direct proclamation of the Word of God. However, it helps millions of people to see Orthodoxy from various viewpoints and also to come to feel the beauty and power of Orthodoxy.