DECR Chairman
20.05.2018 21:38
Metropolitan Hilarion celebrates Liturgy at the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in Paris
After the Liturgy Bishop Nestor warmly greeted Metropolitan Hilarion, wishing him God’s help in his important ministry as the DECR chairman.
19.05.2018 12:06
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk meets with Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church
Various issues pertaining to bilateral cooperation, pan-Orthodox agenda and inter-confessional relations were discussed.
17.05.2018 22:12
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill meets with the head of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church
On 17 May 2018, the feast of the Ascension of the Lord, after the Divine Liturgy His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia met with the head of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, His Holiness Patriarch and Catholicos Abune Mathias I.
15.05.2018 18:31
Metropolitan Hilarion meets with Greek ambassador to Russia
They discussed students’ exchange between educational institutions of the Russian Orthodox Church and Greek universities, as well as other topics of mutual concern.
15.05.2018 12:34
Head of Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church arrives in Moscow
On 15 May 2018, Patriarch and Catholicos Abune Mathias I of Ethiopia arrived in Russia with an official visit at the invitation of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia.
14.05.2018 17:04
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk: All the Holy Synod members have supported the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church
In April 2018, the Ukrainian Supreme Rada supported the initiative of the President of Ukraine P. A. Poroshenko to appeal to the Patriarch of Constantinople to establish an autocephalous Church in Ukraine.
14.05.2018 12:08
Patriarch Kirill presides over a the Holy Synod session in St. Petersburg
The Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church has begun its session at the historic building of the Sacred Governing Synod in St. Petersburg. It is chaired by His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia.
12.05.2018 15:16
DECR chairman speaks at a conference on theological understanding of the problem of extremism
On May 12, 2018, in keeping with a decision of the commission on theology and theological education of the Russian Orthodox Church’s Inter-Council Presence, a theological conference was held on Theological Understanding of the Phenomenon of Extremism and Terrorism, at the St. Petersburg Theological Academy.
11.05.2018 18:01
Primate of Russian Church holds working meeting with chairman of the Department for External Church Relations and head of the Administration for Institutions Abroad
On 11 May 2018, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia held a working meeting with Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, and Archbishop Antony of Vienna and Budapest, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Administration for Institutions Abroad.
09.05.2018 22:37
Metropolitan Hilarion meets with Patriarch Theophilos of Jerusalem
On May 6, 2018, the Sunday of the Samaritan Woman, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations (DECR), who is on a working trip to the Holy Land at the instruction of Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, took part in…