Inter-Christian relations
- DECR Chairman Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk completes his visit to the USA
01.09.2010 11:07 ·
On 31 August 2010, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, who was on a working visit to the USA with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia and by invitation of His Beatitude Metropolitan Jonah of All America and Canada, met with Ms. Anne Glynn-Mackoul, legal adviser of the Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of North America and a member of the World Council of Churches’ Committee for Consensus and Cooperation.
- DECR vice-chairman on working visit to Estonia
16.08.2010 16:16 ·
The DECR vice-chairman had a meeting in the Estonian Parliament with parliament members Ain Seppik, Toomas Varek and Vladimir Velman who is also member of the Inter-Parliamentary Assembly of Orthodoxy.
- Patriarch Kirill’s working meeting with Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos Karekin II of All Armenians
15.07.2010 16:11 ·They discussed various problems involved in cooperation between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Armenian Apostolic Church.
- Metropolitan Hilarion’s speech in Churches in Europe working group of St. Petersburg Dialogue forum
14.07.2010 17:02 ·
On July 14, 2010, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations, participated in the working group on Churches in Europe of the St. Petersburg Dialogue. Below is his address to the group.
- Participants in Russian-Polish youth seminar visit St. Sergius’ Laura of the Trinity
08.07.2010 17:06 ·A Russian-Polish youth seminar took place from July 5 to 7, 2010, in Moscow, under the theme ‘Russia and Poland Today and Tomorrow: A View of the Younger Generation’.
- DECR vice-chairman: ‘As a Russian citizen I am proud that my country has come out as a third party in the re-examination of the Lautsi versus Italy case in the European Court of Human Rights
05.07.2010 16:31 ·On July 5, 2010, a Russian-Polish youth seminar on Russia and Poland Today and Tomorrow: The View of the Younger Generation took place at the Higher School of Economics (HSE). It was organized with the support of the Russian-Polish Public Forum and the Federal Agency for Youth.
- Metropolitan Vladimir of Kiev and All Ukraine meets with Rev. Andrew Hamburg, president of the Synod of German Evangelical Lutheran Church in Ukraine
02.07.2010 15:29 ·
They discussed bilateral relations, the website of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church reports. The Rev. Andrew Hamburg is also deputy chairman of the group ‘Reconciliation in Europe – the Churches’ Task in Ukraine, Belarus, Poland and Germany’.
- World Council of Churches delegation meets with DECR staff
01.07.2010 17:56 ·
Welcoming the guests, Father Philip told them about the history of the DECR, the oldest Synodal department of the Russian Orthodox Church, as well as its secretariats and work. He also introduced DECR staff to the guests. He noted that at present the Russian Orthodox Church is going through a rebirth as most of the Russian population claim to be Orthodox. At the same time, catechism and church initiation remain urgent problems.
- Metropolitan Hilarion congratulates Bishop Kurt Koch on his appointment as president of Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity
01.07.2010 13:32 ·In a letter to the president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, Bishop Kurt Koch, DECR chairman Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk congratulated him on his appointment to this important post. Below is the text of the congratulatory letter.
- DECR Chairman meets with the WCC General Secretary
01.07.2010 11:11 ·
On 30 June 2010, an official meeting between Metropolitan Hilarion, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’ Department for External Church Relations, and the General Secretary of the World Council of Churches Rev. Dr. Olaf Fykse Tveit took place at “Danilovskaya” hotel.
- Press conference given by World Council of Churches General Secretary Rev. Dr. Olav Tveit And Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk
30.06.2010 20:06 ·
World Council of Churches General Secretary Rev. Dr. Olav Fykse Tveit, who is in Moscow on an official visit, and Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations, answered questions from the Russian and foreign mass media on June 30, 2010, at the DECR.
- DECR chairman takes part in meeting of World Council of Churches Permanent Committee for Consensus and Cooperation
30.06.2010 12:57 ·
The World Council of Churches Committee for Consensus and Cooperation took place on June 30 at the Danilovsky hotel compound. The meeting was attended by representatives of Local Orthodox Churches and Protestant and Anglican Churches from various countries of the world.
- Cochairman of Christian Inter-confessional Advisory Committee of the CIS and the Baltics meet with World Council of Churches delegation
30.06.2010 11:05 ·The CICAC cochairman informed the WCC delegation about the work of the Committee and the life of Christian Churches and communities in the CIS and the Baltic region. They exchanged views on a number of urgent problems engaging the attention of the international public.
- WCC general secretary introduced to work of Moscow Patriarchate’s synodal departments
30.06.2010 10:50 ·The WCC delegation was also introduced to the display of the museum devoted to the history of Russian sisters of mercy and saw a film on special projects implemented by the Sisterhood. The guests were especially interested in the development of the volunteers movement developed around the Parish of St. Dimitry.
- His Holiness Patriarch Kirill meets with the WCC General Secretary
28.06.2010 19:23 ·
On 28 June 2010, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, received the Rev. Dr. Olaf Fykse Tveit, general secretary of the World Council of Churches, currently on an official visit to Moscow. The meeting took place after the Divine Liturgy celebrated at the Cathedral of the Dormition in the Moscow Kremlin.
- General Secretary of the World Council of Churches arrives in Moscow
28.06.2010 09:34 ·The General Secretary of the World Council of Church Dr. Olaf Fykse Tveit began his official visit to Moscow on 271 June 2010
- Orthodox-Catholic conversations on the contribution of Churches to reconciliation between peoples of Poland and Russia take place in Warsaw
24.06.2010 18:55 ·
The first session of the working group of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church in Poland on the elaboration of a document on the contribution of Churches to reconciliation between peoples of Russia and Poland took place in Warsaw on 24 June 2010. The group was set up at a meeting held in the capital of Poland on 26 February 2010.
- DECR vice-chairman meets with a representative of the Church of England
11.06.2010 12:30 ·
Hegumen Philip Riabykh, vice-chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations, met with Bishop John Ronald Angus Stroyan of Warwick, a member of the Orthodox-Anglican Commission for Theological Dialogue and one of the patrons of the St. Andrew Foundation, which helps Orthodox Churches and some other confessions in Eastern Europe to send students to British universities and to train young people for social work.
- Archbishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland is installed in Turku
07.06.2010 15:48 ·
Archbishop Kari Mäkinen was installed in Turku on June 6, 2010. The ceremony took place at the old cathedral of the 13th century in the presence of the state leaders of the Republic of Finland and many guests from different countries of the world.
- Metropolitan Hilarion celebrates Divine Liturgy at the Church of the Dormition in Turku
07.06.2010 10:47 ·
On 6 June 2010, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, currently in Finland to attend the installation of the newly elected head of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the Church of the Dormition at the Russian Consulate General in Turku.
