Tag: russian orthodox church
President Dmitry Medvedev visits the exhibition-forum ‘Orthodox Rus’ – Towards the Day of the People’s Unity’
5/11/2011 On November 5, 2011, President Dmitry Medvedev visited the 10th Church-Public Exhibition-Forum ‘Orthodox Rus’ – Towards the Day of the People’s Unity’. The exhibition ... Read More
Russian businessman donates 70 icons worth around $1m to the Church
Sergei Shmakov and the Toropets Virgin Mary By Sophia Kishkovsky 26/10/2011 Sergei Shmakov has spent over a year tracking down the works, which were removed ... Read More
Second Episcopal Assembly of Oceania COMMUNIQUE
18/10/2011 The members of the 2nd Episcopal Assembly of all canonical Orthodox Bishops of Oceania welcomed once again the opportunity to meet in Sydney from ... Read More
A New CD of Russian Church Music “As Far as the East is from the West” is Out
13/10/2011 Visit www.orthodoxchoralmusic.com to learn more about the CD, to hear excerpts, and to order. Read More
MORE AND MORE PEOPLE IN CZECHIA AND SLOVAKIA ARE GIVING PREFERENCE TO THE ORTHODOX CHURCH
Metropolitan Christopher of the Czech lands and Slovakia Christopher, Archbishop of Prague and Metropolitan of the Czech and Slovakian lands. Read More
Ukrainian Orthodox Churches to Resume Dialogue for Unity
23/9/2011 Kiev: It has been reported that the Ukrainian Orthodox Churches have decided to to Resume Dialogue to over come Schism. Recently a joint statement ... Read More
Russian Orthodox Church Inter-Council Presence’s commission for opposing and overcoming church schisms meets in Kiev
20.09.2011 The ROC Inter-Council Presence’s commission for opposing and overcoming church schisms met for a regular session on September 19, 2011, at the Kiev Laura ... Read More
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk meets with Patriarch Abuna Paul of Ethiopia
INTER-ORTHODOX MEETING 15/9/2011 Russian-Ethiopian Orthodox Churches On September 14, 2010, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations, met ... Read More
Patriarch Kirill concludes his primatial visitation to Lugansk, Ukraine
16.09.2011 His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia concluded his primatial visitation to the diocese of Lugansk and Alchevsk, Ukraine, in the afternoon ... Read More
Abkhazia: Breakaway Church Confronts Its Own Breakaway Bid
By Paul Rimple and Dean C.K. Cox Abkhazia, Georgia 16/9/2011 At the entrance to the cathedral in the Abkhaz capital, Sukhumi, one Saturday this summer, ... Read More