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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.

DECR chairman meets with Catholic Archbishop of Bari-Bitonto Giuseppe Satriano

15.02.2025

On the Feast of the Meeting of the Lord, Metropolitan Anthony of Volokolamsk celebrates Liturgy at the relics of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in Bari

15.02.2025

Students from Coptic Church admitted to Smolensk Theological Seminary

14.02.2025

Moscow Patriarchate’s delegation takes part in the celebrations marking the enthronement of new Primate of the Eritrean Church

29.01.2025

Parish of the Assyrian Church of the East provides humanitarian aid to victims in conflict zone

30.12.2024

DECR representative attends official licensing of the new Anglican chaplain in Moscow

17.12.2024

Representatives of the Armenian Apostolic Church Youth Visit Zachatyevsky Monastery

15.12.2024

A Lecture on "The Feast of the Nativity of Christ in the Coptic Church" Held at the St. Petersburg Theological Academy

14.12.2024

Primate of the Church of India receives Russian state award

13.12.2024

DECR chairman meets with religious leaders of Bahrain

09.12.2024

Patriarchal Exarch of Western Europe attends Notre Dame reopening ceremony

09.12.2024

A representative of the Russian Orthodox Church attends the WCC Youth Commission meeting in Manila

27.11.2024

Choir of the Holy Trinity and St. Sergius Lavra and the Moscow Theological Academy gives concerts in India

26.11.2024

Department for External Church Relations will host an international conference on “Church care for mentally ill people”

19.11.2024

Pilgrimage by monks and nuns of the Russian Orthodox Church takes place to Egypt

18.11.2024

Archbishop Theodosius of Sebastia: We demand that persecutions against Ukrainian Orthodox Church be stopped

11.02.2025

The funeral service and burial of His Beatitude Archbishop Anastasios of Albania took place.

30.01.2025

Hierarch of the Russian Church takes part in patronal feast of the Serbian convent in Buenos Aires

28.01.2025

Metropolitan Kirill of Kazan concelebrated Divine Liturgy at the Holy Sepulchre

26.01.2025

Metropolitan Kirill of Kazan meets with Patriarch Theophilos of Jerusalem

26.01.2025

Metropolitan Anthony of Volokolamsk meets with Primate of Orthodox Church of Antioch

26.01.2025

Metropolitan Anthony of Volokolamsk visits Lebanon

26.01.2025

Condolences of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill on the passing of the Primate of the Albanian Orthodox Church

25.01.2025

His Beatitude Archbishop Anastasios of Tirana and All Albania falls asleep in the Lord

25.01.2025

His Beatitude Patriarch John of Antioch and All the East meets with Representative of the Russian Orthodox Church

18.01.2025

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

18.01.2025

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

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

10.01.2025

Head of Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Jerusalem participates in common prayer meeting with His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilus.

10.01.2025

Metropolitan Anthony of Volokolamsk celebrates Divine Liturgy at St. Nicholas Metochion in Bari

16.02.2025

Bishop Matthew of Sourozh sends condolences over the plane crash in Washington, DC

30.01.2025

Representative of the Russian Orthodox Church meets with Russia’s Ambassador to Syria

30.01.2025

Hierarch of the Russian Church takes part in patronal feast of the Serbian convent in Buenos Aires

28.01.2025

Cleric of the Diocese of Korea speaks at the readings “Relations between Russia and Korea: 120 years ago and now”

25.01.2025

DECR Chairman meets with chaplain of St. Andrew's Anglican church in Moscow

23.01.2025

DECR Chairman participates in a meeting of the government commission on compatriots living abroad

20.01.2025

Patriarchal Exarch of Africa blessed the waters of Lake Victoria

20.01.2025

Russian citizens residing in Myanmar attend divine service on the Eve of Holy Theophany

20.01.2025

Southern and Northern Church districts established within the South African Diocese in the Republic of Madagascar

18.01.2025

The Patriarchal Exarch of Africa celebrates Liturgy in the Kenyan Town of Nyabini

18.01.2025

Representatives of International Islamic University Malaysia visit Orthodox church in Kuala Lumpur

15.01.2025

Reception held at the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Jerusalem for the feast of the Nativity of Christ

10.01.2025

Nativity services celebrated in Church Slavonic in the UAE, Iran, Kuwait, Bahrein and Oman.

10.01.2025

Head of Hebron Governorate visits metochion of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission on the feast of the Nativity of Christ.

10.01.2025

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