His Holiness Patriarch Kirill arrives in Kiev

In the course of the pastoral visit to Ukraine, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia has arrived in Kiev – the Mother of Russian cities.

Meeting His Holiness at the “Borispol” airport were His Beatitude Metropolitan Vladimir of Kiev and All Ukraine, Metropolitans Agafangel of Odessa and Izmail, Ioannikiy of Lugansk and Alchevsk, Onufriy of Chernovtsy and Bukovina; Archbishop Mitrofan of Belaya Tserkov and Boguslav, Chancellor of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church; vicars of the Kiev diocese Archbishops Nikolai of Belgorod and Antoniy of Borispol, rector of the Kiev Theological Academy; Bishops Ilariy of Makarov, Serafim of Yagotin, Aleksandr of Pereyaslav-Khmelnitsky, Panteleimon of Vasilkov, and others.

Taking part in the meeting were Ukrainian deputy prime minister for regional politics V. Tikhonov, deputy head of the Ukrainian President’s Administration A. Goncharuk, chairman of the Ukrainian State Committee for Nationalities and Religions Yu. Bogutsky, Ukrainian minister of energetics Yu. Boiko, deputy minister of the Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers Yu. Avksentiev, head of the Kiev Regional State Administration A. Prisyazhnyuk, other representatives of the authorities, and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to Ukraine M. Zurabov.

The delegation that accompanies the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church includes Metropolitan Varsonofiy of Saransk and Mordovia, Chancellor of the Moscow Patriarchate; Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, Chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations; Archbishop Feognost of Sergiev Posad, abbot of the Laura of the Holy Trinity and St. Sergius; Bishop Sergiy of Solnechnogorsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Administrative Secretariat; archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, chairman of the Synodal Department for Church-Society Relations; Mr. Vladimir Legoida, chairman of the Synodal Information Department; archpriest Nikolai Balashov, deputy chairman of the DECR MP; Rev. Igor Yakimchuk, DECR secretary for Inter-Christian Relations; hieromonk Antoniy (Sevryuk), head of the Patriarch’s personal secretariat, and M. Kuksov, a staff member of the same Secretariat.

His Holiness answered questions of the journalists.

• ‘We do not seek the defeat but the return of our brothers…’ – Interview by V. Legoida, head of the Synodal Information Department
• Press-conference summing up Patriarch Kirill’s visitation of Ukrainian Orthodox Church
• Patriarch Kirill completes his visitation of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church
• ‘It is easy to pray together with the Ukrainian people’ – Patriarch Kirill’s interview to Russia-24 TV channel
• Patriarch Kirill honours memory of Great Patriotic War soldiers and victims of mass starvation in the 30s
• Patriarch Kirill and Metropolitan Vladimir open an exposition on Heritage of Holy Prince Vladimir at Kiev Laura of Caves
• Patriarch Kirill and Metropolitan Vladimir celebrate Divine Liturgy at the Dormition Laura of the Caves in Kiev
• Patriarch Kirill’s homily in Kiev Laura of Caves on the Baptism of Rus’ Day
• Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk: Many signals are coming from the schism that people feel the need to re-unite with the Church
• Appeal of the Russian Orthodox Church’s Holy Synod to Orthodox Christians in Ukraine who are out of unity with the Holy Church
• Russian Orthodox Church Holy Synod meets in the Kiev Laura of Caves
• Monks and laymen greet His Holiness Patriarch Kirill at the Laura of the Caves in Kiev
• His Holiness Patriarch Kirill: Ukraine awaits a fine future, and may God grant that we all work towards this future!
• His Holiness Patriarch Kirill arrives in Kiev
• His Holiness Patriarch Kirill completes his visit to the Dnepropetrovsk diocese
• His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia meets with clergy of the Dnepropetrovsk diocese
• Patriarch Kirill meets with Ukrainian President Yanukovich
• Patriarch Kirill meets with the public in Odessa
• Patriarch Kirill made doctor honoris causa by Odessa National Academy of Law
• Patriarch Kirill gives his blessing to a girl suffering from cerebral paralysis and gives her special wheelchair for disabled children
• Ruling hierarch of the Odessa diocese give reception in honour of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill
• His Holiness Patriarch Kirill celebrates the Office of Blessing of the Cathedral of the Transfiguration in Odessa and officiates at the Divine Liturgy
• His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia visits Monastery of the Dormition in Odessa
• Patriarch Kirill: I come again to this holy land with a special feeling
• His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia arrives in Odessa
• Moscow-Kiev video bridge before Patriarch Kirill’s visit to Ukraine
• Patriarch Kirill answers questions from Ukrainian journalists in anticipation of his visit to Ukraine