Tag: Russia

Hierarchal Feast-Day Celebrations at SS Peter and Paul Church

OCP- July 17, 2014

Russian Church Outside Russia - July 2014 On Friday, July 11, 2014, on the eve of the feast day of Saints Peter and Paul, His ... Read More

Fundraising to support the Ukrainian refugees takes place in all churches of Russia

OCP- July 16, 2014

July 2014 With the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, on July 13, in all churches on the territory of ... Read More

Metropolitan Varsonofy of St. Petersburg and Ladoga meets with Director of China’s State Administration for Religious Affairs

OCP- July 16, 2014

July 2014 On 13 July 2014, at the diocesan administration of the St. Petersburg metropolia, Metropolitan Varsonofy of St. Petersburg and Ladoga, Chancellor of the ... Read More

Photo-Report of the burial service of Metropolitan Vladimir of Kiev and All Ukraine

OCP- July 16, 2014

July 2014 On 7 July 2014, the feast day of the Nativity of St John the Baptist, the Divine Liturgy and the burial service for ... Read More

Twisted History Against Russia and Serbia

OCP- July 14, 2014

GlobalResearch By Michael Averko - July 2014 The June 20 Gray Falcon commentary “Failure to Communicate” has this excerpt, that led me to an extremely ... Read More

Metropolitan Mercurius of Rostov: “The Church is doing its best to help the refugees”

OCP- July 14, 2014

Rostov-on-Don  - July 2014 The Rostov region in Russia has declared a state of emergency regarding aid to refugees from the Ukraine, and the Church ... Read More

“Miloserdie”: “A ban on begging will make our society more cruel”

OCP- July 14, 2014

July 2014 “Banning begging will not the solve problems of poor people, but it can make our society more cruel,” said the Aid to the ... Read More

Center for Orthodox Cultural Studies signed in Shanghai

OCP- July 8, 2014

The Chinese Orthodox Church - July 2014 Agreement about formation of the Center for Study of Orthodox Culture signed in Shanghai. On June 11, 2014, ... Read More

Metropolitan HIlarion of Eastern America and New York: War always leads to more war

OCP- July 8, 2014

8/7/14 - Epistle of the Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia. We, the hierarchs of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside ... Read More

An Orthodox Future for Finland?

OCP- July 6, 2014

The 19th century Uspenski Cathedral in Helsinki. Orthodox England - July 2014 Foreword Nearly 100 years since the aggressive Western attempt to take over the ... Read More

A Miracle in Austria

OCP- July 6, 2014

July 2014 28 June 2014 marked the centenary of the tragic assassination, planned by freemasons, of the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his spouse Sophia, ... Read More

Vladimir Legoyda: The Church Building is the Conceptual Dominant of the “Russian Field”

OCP- July 5, 2014

7/5/14 “His Holiness often mentioned in his sermons that Russia grew around the holiness of St. Sergius, around the churches built by him and his ... Read More

More Than Twenty Ukrainian Refugees Find Refuge in a Church of the Volgodonsk Diocese

OCP- July 3, 2014

July 2014 At the end of his visit, Bishop Cornelius of Volgodonsk and Salsk presented gifts to the refugees from Ukraine: basic necessities along with ... Read More

Metropolitan Hilarion takes part in the opening of “Slavonic Unity-2014” International Festival

OCP- July 1, 2014

  On 28 June 2014, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, arrived in Bryansk with the blessing ... Read More

The ROCOR Council of Bishops Select Regular Members of the Synod of Bishops

OCP- June 29, 2014

Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia - June 2014 On Wednesday, June 25, 2014, the Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia ... Read More

Patriarch Kirill extends condolences to Patriarch Neophyte of Bulgaria upon the flood

OCP- June 29, 2014

June 2014 His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia has sent the following message of condolences to His Holiness Patriarch Neophyte of Bulgaria ... Read More

Patriarch Kirill’s appeal for the OSCE observers held in Ukraine

OCP- June 29, 2014

June 2014 The Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church has made the following appeal to help release the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s ... Read More

Patriarch Kirill on the beginning of negotiations to settle the crisis in Ukraine

OCP- June 29, 2014

June 2014 On June 24, the press service of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia published the following statement His Holiness made ... Read More

21st Inter-parliamentary Assembly of Orthodoxy opens at State Duma

OCP- June 27, 2014

June 2014   June 26, 2014 – the 21st Inter-parliamentary Assembly of Orthodoxy has opened in the State Duma under the theme “Parliamentary Democracy – Orthodoxy: ... Read More

Message of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia to the Fullness of the Russian Orthodox Church

OCP- June 19, 2014

19/6/14 Dear brothers and sisters, I address now the entire Fullness of our Church, all the peoples of historical Rus. There can be nothing more ... Read More

Russian Church to open a center for studying Orthodox culture in Shanghai

OCP- June 17, 2014

Moscow, June 16, Interfax - The Shanghai Foreign Languages University and the Patriarchal Council for Culture signed an agreement to set up a center for ... Read More