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Commission for the Affairs of Old Believers' Parishes and Interaction with Old Believers

The Commission for Old Believers' Affairs and Interrelationship with Old Believers was created within the Department of External Church Relations based on the Decision of the Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church (October 3 - 8, 2004) "On the Relationship with Old Believers and Old Believers' Parishes of the Russian Orthodox Church". According to the Clause 3.1 of the Regulations of the Commission (approved by the Holy Synod, magazine No. 62, July 16, 2005) the members of the Commission and its chairperson are appointed by His Holiness the Patriarch and the Holy Synod.

Secretary of the Department for External Church Relations for Inter-Christian Affairs took Ppart in a Theological Conference in Egypt

10.02.2026

A round table “Social Ministry of Religious Communities – Interconfessional Exchange of Experience” was held at the DECR

06.02.2026

DECR Chairman meets with the head of the Diocese of Russia and New Nakhichevan

28.01.2026

Delegation from Egypt led by Chairman of Coptic Church’s Patriarchal Committee for Monasticism and Monasteries arrives in Russia

27.01.2026

Representatives of the Churches – Participants in the Christian Interconfessional Advisory Committee issued a statement regarding the persecution of Christians in a number of countries

15.01.2026

Metropolitan Isidor of Smolensk and Dorogobuzh meets with representatives of the Coptic Church

12.01.2026

The Russian Orthodox Church supports the statement of the General Secretary of the World Council of Churches on the situation in Venezuela

03.01.2026

Meeting between representative of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Apostolic Nuncio in Syria takes place.

16.12.2025

Students from Coptic Church arrive in Russia to begin studies at Smolensk Seminary

10.12.2025

The 7th International Conference “The Church’s Care for People with Mental Illness” held at the DECR

08.12.2025

Council of Christian Interconfessional Advisory Committee meets at the DECR

26.11.2025

Department for External Church Relations to host International Conference on Church Care for People with Mental Conditions

25.11.2025

“A special level of fraternal feelings”: the development of ties between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Malankara Church.

25.11.2025

A delegation of monastics from the Russian Orthodox Church on pilgrimage to Egypt

16.11.2025

Deputy Chairman of the DECR takes part in the “National Prayer Breakfast” meeting

11.11.2025

His Holiness Patriarch Kirill extends condolences over the passing away of Catholicos-Patriarch Ilia II of All Georgia

18.03.2026

DECR chairman expresses condolences over the passing of the Primate of the Georgian Orthodox Church

18.03.2026

Primate of Georgian Orthodox Church passed away to the Lord

18.03.2026

Representative of the Russian Orthodox Church takes part in Patriarchal services on the Triumph of Orthodoxy Sunday in Damascus

02.03.2026

Editor‑in‑chief of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Publishing House visits Tbilisi

26.02.2026

Hierarchs of the Russian Church celebrate on the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord at the Holy Sepulchre

17.02.2026

Bulgarian Patriarch Daniil led the celebrations at the Metochion on the occasion of the Tenth Anniversary of the canonization of Saint Seraphim of Boguchar

04.02.2026

Episcopal Service was celebrated at the Russian Church Metochion in Belgrade on the 17th Anniversary of the Enthronement of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill

03.02.2026

Hierarchs of Antiochian and Russian Orthodox Churches take part in patronal feast of Serbian convent in Buenos Aires

27.01.2026

Dvořák’s oratorio Saint Ludmila premiered at Slovak Institute in Moscow

21.01.2026

On the Eve of Theophany, head of Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Jerusalem took part in Patriarchal divine service on River Jordan

20.01.2026

His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos of Jerusalem receives Head of Russian Ecclesiastical Mission

14.01.2026

Representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church congratulate the Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos on the occasion of the Nativity of Christ.

08.01.2026

A representative of the Russian Orthodox Church concelebrates with His Beatitude Patriarch John X of Antioch and All the East

05.01.2026

His Holiness Patriarch Kirill greets Metropolitan Niphon of Philippopolis with his Nameday

05.01.2026

“Children Paint in Church” educational event takes place in Holy Trinity Cathedral in Paris

24.03.2026

Youth choir of Russian Church’s Metochion gives debut performance at Russian House in Sofia

24.03.2026

Bishop Leonid of Argentina and South America extends birthday greetings to the only veteran of the Great Patriotic War living in Argentina

24.03.2026

Metropolitan Anthony of Volokolamsk visits construction site of Russian Orthodox church in Singapore

24.03.2026

His Holiness Patriarch Kirill sends condolences over devastating natural disasters in southern Ethiopia

17.03.2026

Orthodox book fair opens in Buenos Aires

16.03.2026

Metropolitan Konstantin of Cairo and North Africa Celebrated the Liturgy within the Walls of the Russian House in the Capital of Congo

10.03.2026

The Patriarchal Exarch of Africa visits the Republic of Congo

07.03.2026

The Closing of the Exhibition of the Moscow Novodevichy Monastery “The Great Russian Northern Route: The Golden Thread of Centuries” took place in Paris

06.03.2026

Liturgy is celebrated on the Triumph of Orthodoxy Sunday at St. Nicholas Cathedral in Tehran

01.03.2026

Condolences of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill on the assassination of Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Seyyed Ali Khamenei

01.03.2026

Chairman of the Department for External Church Relations meets with Ambassador of Iraq to Russia

27.02.2026

Chairman of the Department for External Church Relations meets with Ambassador of Iraq to Russia

26.02.2026

Rector of the Russian Orthodox parish in Reykjavík takes part in a flower‑laying ceremony on Defender of the Fatherland Day

25.02.2026

Memorial service for victims of 1996 plane crash held in Barentsburg settlement on Spitsbergen

22.02.2026

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