Analitics

• Chairman of Synodal Information Department on journalists’ assessment of Patriarch Kirill’s work
  18.08.2010 14:55 ·
  

  Nezavisimaya gazeta published on 18 August 2010 an article by V. Legoida, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Synodal Information Department, entitled ‘Why to Cipher the Patriarch?’ The text of the

  
  
• ‘We do not seek the defeat but the return of our brothers…’ – Interview by V. Legoida, head of the Synodal Information Department
  11.08.2010 10:58 ·
  

  The Appeal of the Russian Orthodox Church Holy Synod ‘To Orthodox Christians in Ukraine who stay outside the unity with the Holy Church’ has provoked a lively public discussion in Ukraine. The Synod of the so-called Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kievan Patriarchate (UOC KP) issued immediately a counter statement whose tone and affirmations may perplex the reader. At the request of the Bogoslov.ru website, this document is commented by V. Legoida, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Synodal Information Department.

  
  
• Metropolitan Hilarion’s interview to Glas TV Company in Odessa
  23.07.2010 08:19 ·
  

  In his talk with the Open Studio anchorman of the Glas TV Company, Leonid Suschenko, Metropolitan Hilarion was asked questions about music and philosophy, religion and spirituality, church canonical unity and other vital matters.

  
  
• Metropolitan Hilarion: There is nothing humiliating in coming back from a schism
  13.07.2010 16:13 ·
  

  The Chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, has given an interview to the DECR official website concerning the establishment of a Commission on Schisms

  
  
• DECR chairman Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk’s speech at the presentation of Polish version of Patriarch Kirill’s book Freedom and Responsibility: In a Search for Harmony. Human Rights and Dignity (Christian Theological Academy, Warsaw)
  24.06.2010 11:11 ·
  

  I hope that this book by Patriarch Kirill will become a contribution to the discussion in Poland on acute problems involved in human rights.

  
  
• Metropolitan Hilarion: commandment to honour fathers and mothers should be in the plenitude of power in different cultures and centuries
  08.06.2010 13:12 ·
  

  On 5 June 2010, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, spoke about the upbringing of children on “The Church and the World” TV programme at the request of the viewers.

  
  
• THE WORLD AS SACRAMENT The Theological and Spiritual Vision of Creation: His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew
  26.05.2010 11:17 ·
  

  In the Philokalia, St. Anthony of Egypt describes nature as a book that reveals the beauty of God’s creation: “Creation [he says] declares in a loud voice its Maker and master.” Or, as St. Maximus the Confessor claims in the 7th century, the whole world is a “cosmic liturgy.” What, then, is the Orthodox theological and spiritual vision of the world?

  
  
• Italian version of Patriarch Kirill’s Freedom and Responsibility presented at Catholic University of Milan
  18.05.2010 21:43 ·
  

  Patriarch Kirill’s book has been translated and published through the efforts of the Vatican’s publishers and the international society ‘Sophia: Russian Idea – the Idea of Europe’.

  
  
• Ukrainian Orthodox Church Holy Synod’s message on 65th anniversary of Victory in Great Patriotic War
  08.05.2010 19:11 ·
  

  In anticipation of celebrations to mark the 65th anniversary of the Great Victory, the Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church has issued the following message

  
  
• ‘We have reached consensus on the autocephaly procedure’ – DECR chairman’s interview with the Journal of the Moscow Patriarchate
  04.05.2010 16:13 ·
  

  As the Inter-Orthodox Preparatory Commission for the agenda of a Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church continues its work, the issue of granting autocephaly and the diptych order has come up to its attention in the period of 2009-2010. The leader of the Russian Orthodox delegation at the Preparatory Commission meetings, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations, expounds the work of the Commission in an interview to the editor-in-chief of the Journal of the Moscow Patriarchate, S. V. Chapnin.

  
  
• Code on Holy Sites presented in Istanbul
  28.04.2010 14:53 ·
  

  On 28 April 2010, Code on Holy Sites was presented at the session of the European Council of Religious Leaders. The document, compiled on the initiative of representatives of religious communities and expert circles from different countries, was adopted at the Conference in Trondheim in 2009. It was prepared with the aim of regulating the situation with holy sites of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism.

  
  
• ‘In face of aggressive secularism, religious communities in Europe should act in unity’ – DECR vice-chairman
  28.04.2010 12:05 ·
  

  The European Council of Religious Leaders, taking place on April 26-28 in Istanbul, discussed on its second day the themes ‘Solidarity. Poverty in Africa and Migration in Europe – a Global Challenge for Religions’ and ‘Equality – More Equal Than Others? Minarets, Minorities and European Identity’.

  
  
• Baku Declaration on the results of the trilateral meeting between His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II and Sheikh-ul-Islam Allahshuqur Pasha-zade
  26.04.2010 23:37 ·
  

  A joint declaration was adopted on the results of the trilateral meeting between His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II and Sheikh-ul-Islam Allahshuqur Pasha-zade that took place in Baku on 26 April 2010.

  
  
• Metropolitan Hilarion meets Orthodox youth from the Caucasus with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill
  20.04.2010 23:19 ·
  

  On 20 April 2010, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, Chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, met with the Orthodox youth from the Caucasus at the “Danilovsky” hotel complex in Moscow with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia.

  
  
• Address by Patriarch Kirill during Divine Liturgy at Patriarchal Cathedral of Annunciation in Alexandria
  11.04.2010 22:34 ·
  

  I pray that God’s grace may fill the hearts of the faithful of this old but always young Church of Alexandria. May Holy Orthodoxy prosper and spread in the African continent!

  
  
• The Passions in Orthodox perception are deeply imbued with the theme of the Resurrection and radiant Paschal joy
  03.04.2010 20:37 ·
  

  Metropolitan Hilarion’s interview to the Romfea.gr church news portal

  
  
• Metropolitan Hilarion meets with public at Lvov Philharmonic Society
  23.03.2010 20:17 ·
  

  Passions According to St. Matthews composed by Metropolitan Hilarion, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations, was performed at the Lvov Philharmonic Society during the metropolitan’s second day in Lvov, on 22 March 2010.

  
  
• Joint Declaration by Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia and Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos Karekin II of All Armenians
  18.03.2010 14:38 ·
  

  We thank our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ who has given us the opportunity to meet at the First Capital City of Holy Echmiadzin in the Lenten period from March 16 to 18, 2010, when the whole Christendom is preparing for the holy feast of Easter.

  
  
• Patriarch Kirill’s speech at Echmiadzin cathedral
  16.03.2010 21:18 ·
  

  With great joy and warm feelings I have set foot today on the blessed and much-suffered Armenian soil sanctified by the toil of St. Gregory the Enlightener of Great Armenia and stained with the blood of martyrs for the faith of Christ cultivated by many generations of the fraternal Armenian people.

  
  
• “Scholarly-Theological View on Modern Information Society” expert seminar took place at the Laura of the Holy Trinity
  11.03.2010 14:24 ·
  

  “Theology and information society require mutual comprehension and dialogue as far as they are interested in human person,” said the Revd. Georgy Zavershinsky, head of the DECR Communication Service, at the “Scholarly-theological view on modern information society” expert seminar that took place at the Laura of the Holy Trinity. The seminar was chaired by Vladimir Legoida, chairman of the Synodal Information Department.