Speeches
- Metropolitan Hilarion addresses thousands on Poklonnaya Hill
09.05.2012 22:36 ·
On 9 May 2012, the Victory Day, the Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra conducted by Valery Gergiev gave a concert on Poklonnaya Hill. Thousands of Muscovites and guests of the capital city, including the veterans of the Great Patriotic War, attended the event that completed the 11th Moscow Easter Festival.
- Metropolitan Hilarion addresses plenary session of the Synodal Biblical and Theological Commission
23.03.2012 17:23 ·
Report of Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, at the plenary session of the Synodal Biblical and Theological Commission on 23 March 2012.
- Patriarch Kirill’s speech at grand reception on occasion of his 65th birthday
20.11.2011 22:56 ·
On November 20, 2011, a grand reception took place at the Refectory Chambers of the Cathedral Church of Christ the Saviour on the occasion of Patriarch Kirill’s 65th birthday. His Holiness Kirill addressed himself to the guests with the following words of gratitude
- Inter-Orthodox Cooperation in the Preparations for a Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church
03.11.2011 12:12 ·
Metropolitan HILARION of Volokolamsk, Chairman of the Department for External Church Relations Moscow Patriarchate, Rector of the Church Post-Graduate and Doctoral School
- “Moral Dimension of Democracy” Speech by Metropolitan Hilarion at the International Conference on Democracy, Society and Modernization in Modern Russia: Unity of Purpose and Action
25.10.2011 16:00 ·If we show understanding of our spiritual tradition and, above all, rely on it in attempts to make social changes, these changes will differ from the utopian projects of those who wanted to extinguish our historical memory in their endeavour to build a new world without God.
- Metropolitan Hilarion leads commencement ceremony in Moscow theological schools
15.10.2011 00:39 ·
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations, took part in the commencement ceremony traditionally held by the Moscow Theological Academy on its patronal feast on October 14.
- Speech by Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, Chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department of External Church Relations at the OSCE high- level meeting ‘Preventing and Responding to Hate Incidents and Crimes against Christians’ (Rome, Italy, 12 September 2011)
12.09.2011 21:43 ·(Russian) Открывшаяся 12 сентября в столице Италии встреча высокого уровня стала одним из первых тематических мероприятий ОБСЕ по проблеме христианофобии.
- Metropolitan Hilarion: Russian Church’s presence on international scene is aimed at witnessing the beauty of Orthodoxy
30.07.2011 16:06 ·
TV programme “The Church and the World” broadcast on 23 July 2011 was dedicated to the 65th anniversary of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations (DECR).
- “Church hierarchy as a source of authority in the Church”. Paper by Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, MP DECR Chairman. WCC COMMISSION ON FAITH AND ORDER Consultation on Sources of Authority in the Church June 27 – July 4, 2011, Moscow
28.06.2011 17:15 ·June 27 – July 4, 2011, Moscow
- Address by Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, Chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations to the meeting of the European Council of Religious Leaders (21 June 2011, Church of Christ the Saviour, Moscow)
22.06.2011 10:31 ·Allow me to welcome you to the cathedral Church of Christ the Saviour, which is a symbol of the revival of the Russian Orthodox Church.
- The problem of religious intolerance. What can we do together? Paper by Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, Chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations, at the International Conference on Christian-Jewish-Muslim Inter-confessional Dialogue (Budapest, 2 June 2011)
02.06.2011 21:37 ·Paper by Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, Chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations, at the International Conference on Christian-Jewish-Muslim Inter-confessional Dialogue (Budapest, 2 June 2011)
- Metropolitan Hilarion: It is urgent that a system of protecting Christians against persecution be organized
19.05.2011 22:00 ·
Address by DECR Chairman, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, at the opening of the International Ecumenical Peace Convocation (18 May 2011, Kingston, Jamaica)
- DECR chairman makes statement on attacks against Coptic churches in Giza
09.05.2011 20:10 ·
On May 7-8 in Giza, two Coptic churches were set on fire by radical Muslims. Twelve people were killed and about 200 were injured.
- Remarks by Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk during his meeting with members of the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), 5 April 2011, Danilovskaya Hotel
05.04.2011 14:05 ·
The Russian Orthodox Church attaches great importance to her relations with the authorities of the United States of America.
- Lecture at the Highland Park a Presbyterian Church in Dallas
14.02.2011 04:07 ·No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is himself God and is in with the bosom of the Father, has made him known (John.1:18).
- HAVE SALT AMONG YOURSELVES. Lecture at Dallas Seminary, February 12, 2011
13.02.2011 12:52 ·The subject of traditional values and their connection with Christian faith has acquired paramount importance in current discourse on social ethics.
- Metropolitan Hilarion’s speech at the Library of the US Congress
11.02.2011 21:09 ·I would like to thank the Librarian of the Congress, Dr. James Billington, for providing me with this opportunity to share my thoughts about Russian spirituality: its particularity and its universality.
- THEOLOGY OF ICON IN THE ORTHODOX CHURCH. Lecture at St. Vladimir’s Seminary, 5 February 2011
06.02.2011 12:59 ·Archpriest Alexander Schmemann was very sensitive to the significance of beauty and harmony for the spiritual life.
- Address by Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations, to the 19th International Educational Christmas Readings
25.01.2011 00:12 ·The discussions involve the mass media and reach out to a large audience.
- Statement of the DECR chairman, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, on the European Parliament resolution on the situation of Christians in the context of freedom of religion
24.01.2011 01:56 ·On 20 January 2011, the European Parliament took an unprecedented step by adopting a resolution on the situation of Christians in the context of freedom of religion. It is for the first time that a major political body of the European Union recognized that Christians are persecuted.
