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The Leadership of the DECR

The Leadership of the DECR

DECR Chairman

Metropolitan Anthony of Volokolamsk

Vice-chairmen

Archimandrite Philaret (Bulekov)

Archpriest Nikolay Lischeniuk

Archpriest Igor Yakimchuk

Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church participates in the Paschal reception at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia

20.05.2025

Metropolitan Anthony of Volokolamsk takes part in the consecration of a church in Zahlé, Lebanon

18.05.2025

DECR chairman visits Archdioceses of Zahlé and Beirut of Antiochian Patriarchate

18.05.2025

Metropolitan Anthony of Volokolamsk meets with the head of the Maronite Church

17.05.2025

DECR chairman meets with President of Lebanon

17.05.2025

Representatives of Russian Orthodox Church attend a meeting of the Russia - Islamic World Strategic Vision Group in Kazan

17.05.2025

Head of Tatarstan Metropolia meets with President of Islamic Culture and Relations Organization of Iran

17.05.2025

Metropolitan Anthony of Volokolamsk begins his work trip to Lebanon

16.05.2025

Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem: "We are prepared to offer whatever help we can to all our brothers and sisters in Estonia"

14.05.2025

OCU raiders seize a church of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Spaska village, Bukovina

13.05.2025

DECR chairman meets with a bishop of the Orthodox Church of Antioch

12.05.2025

His Holiness Patriarch Kirill congratulates Pope Leo XIV on his election to the See of Rome

09.05.2025

His Holiness Patriarch Kirill meets with President of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro

08.05.2025

His Holiness Patriarch Kirill meets with the President of Cuba

08.05.2025

Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church awarded highest order of the Republic of Serbia

08.05.2025

Metropolitan Anthony of Volokolamsk: "We have embarked on a significant and new endeavor in Africa."

04.02.2025

Metropolitan Irinej of Bačka: Division in Ukraine has turned into the Orthodoxy-wide division

14.01.2025

Metropolitan Irinej of Bačka speaks on "Posthumanism" in the Field of Bioethics

14.01.2025

The Patriarchal Exarch of Africa on Orthodoxy in Equatorial Guinea

30.12.2024

Interview with Metropolitan Theodosius of Cherkasy and Kanev for Romfea News Agency

03.12.2024

Our Churches and our peoples have undergone many trials. Catholicos-Patriarch Mar Awa III on the Assyrian Church of the East and its ties with Russia

09.04.2024

Metropolitan Hilarion of Budapest and Hungary: Vatican concedes to liberals on the issue of same-sex couples

29.02.2024

Bishop Irinej of Bačka: Silence of the post-Christian West about the persecution against the Ukrainian Orthodox Church is really frightening

23.01.2024

Metropolitan Theodosius (Snihiriov): ‘The world community is standing up in defence of our Church’

13.01.2024

Primate of the Assyrian Church of the East gave an interview to RIA Novosti

23.11.2023

Head of the Malankara Church of India: we express our support for the Russian Church in everything

15.09.2023

Archbishop Theophan of Korea: Russian churches in Korea can become bridges of friendship with Russia

31.08.2023

Metropolitan Hilarion of Budapest and Hungary: Constantinople's claims are getting bolder

26.07.2023

Bishop Irinej of Bačka: In Ukraine, the authorities feel they have the right to declare the Ukrainian Orthodox Church an enemy

09.05.2023

Metropolitan Hilarion: To reveal Christ to people is our most important missionary task

08.10.2021

Address by His Holiness Patriarch Kirill at the VIII World Congress of Compatriots Living Abroad

30.10.2024

Address by His Holiness Patriarch Kirill at jubilee meeting of Inter-Religious Council of Russia

07.12.2023

DECR Chairman addressed the XV General Assembly of the Christian Conference of Asia

30.09.2023

Address by Patriarch KIRILL of Moscow and All Russia at the meeting of Russia-Islam Strategic Vision Group

19.05.2023

Metropolitan Anthony’s address at closing session of the 7th Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions

15.09.2022

Presentation of the DECR Chairman at the interreligious meeting on Religion and Education

06.10.2021

Dostoevsky and the Gospel

20.09.2021

The topic of autocephaly is the only one worthy of a pan-Orthodox Council, believes the Serbian Orthodox bishop of Bačka Irinej.

17.09.2021

The Metropolitan of Kykkos Nicephorus: “The unilateral decision by Patriarch Bartholomew on Ukraine threatens pan-Orthodox unity with a schism of monstrous proportions”

17.09.2021

Constantinople’s claims to power as a threat to Church unity

16.09.2021

Presentation by His Holiness Patriarch Kirill at the opening of the ‘World Orthodoxy: Primacy and Conciliarity in the Light of Orthodox Dogmatic Teaching’ conference

16.09.2021

The Orthodox Understanding of the Eucharist

06.09.2021

"Freedom and Responsibility as Viewed by His Holiness Patriarch Kirill". Address by Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk (International Hellenic University online seminar, 16th February 2021)

16.02.2021

Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk gave an online lecture for the Theological Institute of St. John of Damascus, Balamand University

31.01.2021

Address by Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk at a session of the Interreligious Council of Russia attended by Mr. Miguel Moratinos, High-Representative for the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations

21.01.2021

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