Tag: DECR
SPECIAL INTER-ORTHODOX COMMISSION FOR PREPARING PAN-ORTHODOX COUNCIL BEGINS ITS WORK
September-October 2014 On September 30, 2014, the Special Inter-Orthodox Commission for Preparing a Pan-Orthodox Council began its work at the Patriarchate of Constantinople’s Ecumenical Center ... Read More
Patriarch Kirill meets with Iran’s ambassador to Russia
September 2014 On September 24, 2014, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia met with the ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran, ... Read More
Patriarch Kirill consecrates the church of Holy Martyr Clement – the Orthodox Pope of Rome
September 2014 On September 27, 2014, the Day of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia celebrated ... Read More
13 plenary session of Orthodox-Catholic theological dialogue completes its work
On September 22, 2014, the 13th plenary session of the Joint Commission for Theological Dialogue Between the Orthodox and the Roman-Catholic Churches completed its work, ... Read More
Metropolitan Hilarion: Unia remains a bleeding wound on the body of Christendom
20/9/14 The chairman of the Department for External Church Relations, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, believes that the 13th plenary session of the Joint Commission for ... Read More
Metropolitan Hilarion: there always be spiritual unity between the Russian and Ukrainian nations
On September 13, Metropolitan Hilarion, host of the Church and the World talk-show on Vesti-24 TV network, had as his guest Mr. Alexander Shchipkov, editor-in-chief ... Read More
DECR chairman meets with Syria’s Minister of Endowment and Religious Affairs
September 2014 On September 14, 2014, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations, met with the Minister of ... Read More
Metropolitan Hilarion meets with president of the Conference of European Rabbis
On September 12, 2014, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations, met at the DECR with Moscow’s Chief ... Read More
International forum on “The Large Family and the Future of Humanity” opens in Moscow
On September 10, 2014, an international forum on “The Large Family and the Future of Humanity” was opened at the State Kremlin Palace. The participants ... Read More
DECR chairman meets with Primate of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland
September 2014 On 2 September 2014, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations (DECR), met with the Primate ... Read More
Patriarch Kirill celebrates the memory of St. Vladimir Equal-to-the-Apostles
July 2014 On July 28, 2014, the commemoration day of the Holy Prince Vladimir Equal-to-the-Apostles and the Day of the Baptism of Rus’, a public ... Read More
Patriarch Irenaeus of Serbia thanks Patriarch Kirill for aid to victims of flood in Balkans
31/7/14 His Holiness Irenaeus, Patriarch of Serbia, has sent to His Holiness Kirill, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, a letter expressing gratitude to the ... Read More
DECR REPRESENTATIVES MEETS WITH GRANDSON OF FOUNDER OF ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN
On June 2, 2014, an interreligious meeting with the participation of diplomats and scholars took place at the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of ... Read More
Belarus’s President Alexander Lukashenko meets with participants in 4th Orthodox-Catholic Forum
On June 3, 2014, Belarus’s President Alexander Lukashenko received in audience participants in the 4th Orthodox-Catholic Forum “Religion and Cultural Diversity: Challenges for Christian Churches ... Read More
Patriarch Kirill meets with a delegation of the Patriarchate of Constantinople
On May 24, 2014, the commemoration day of Ss Cyril and Methodius, which is also his name-day, His Holiness Patriarchal Kirill of Moscow and All ... Read More
Patriarch Kirill meets Rossotrudnichestvo Federal Agency director K. Kosachev
30/4/14 On April 25, 2014, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia met with director of the Federal Agency for the Commonwealth ... Read More
On the Day of Lord’s Entry into Jerusalem, Metropolitan Hilarion celebrates Divine Liturgy in Spanish capital
April 12, 2014 – With the blessing of Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s ... Read More
DECR chairman receives new representative of the Orthodox Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia
On April 10, 2014, a meeting took place between Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations, and the ... Read More
Metropolitan Hilarion administers the rite of reuniting those who temporarily fell away from the Orthodox Church
On April 9, 2014, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations, administered the rite of reuniting those who ... Read More
Representatives of Local Orthodox Churches congratulate Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk on the fifth anniversary of his appointment as DECR chairman
On 30 March 2014, the fourth Sunday in Lent (St. John of the Ladder and commemoration day of St. Alexis the Man of God), Metropolitan ... Read More
Patriarch Kirill leads the 14th ceremony of awarding prizes of Unity of Orthodox Nations International Foundation
March 2014 On March 11, 2014, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia led the 14th annual ceremony of awarding the Patriarch Alexy ... Read More