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- Inter-Council Presence’s working group on relationship between science and faith holds its first session
11.05.2012 19:53 ·
The working group was set up by the decision of the Inter-Council’s Presence’ Presidium to work at the documents on similar themes. Members of the working group discussed future plans.
- Russia 1 TV channel to show film made for the fifth anniversary of the restoration of canonical communion between the Moscow Patriarchate and the Russian Church Abroad
11.05.2012 19:26 ·
(Russian) Фильм рассказывает о том, как иерархи Церкви в Отечестве и в зарубежье шли к этому эпохальному событию, как преодолевались разногласия и противоречия, какими усилиями достигалось единство.
- Russian Orthodox Church representative in Germany honours memory of the fallen in the Great Patriotic War
11.05.2012 12:38 ·
On May 8, 2012, the Russian Orthodox Church’s representative in Germany, Archbishop Longing of Klin, attended the traditional ceremony of the laying of wreaths at the Troisdorf Cemetery in Bonn in memory of the Soviet citizens who fell during the war. The ceremony was organized by the Russian Federation consulate in Bonn.
- Commemoration day of St George the Victorious marked with hierarchal liturgy at Moscow Patriarchate’s parish in Valencia
10.05.2012 17:47 ·
On May 6, 2012, the commemoration day of the Protomartyr George the Victorious, Bishop Nestor of Chersonese led the patronal celebrations at the Parish of St. George in Valencia, Spain.
- Memory of Great Patriotic War warriors was honoured at Moscow Patriarchate parishes in various countries of the world
10.05.2012 17:33 ·
On May 9, 2012, it was the 67th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War. The memory of Soviet soldiers who defended the Motherland and liberated Europe from fascism was honoured at the Moscow Patriarchate’s parishes in various countries of the world.
- Some 150 pilgrims and guests prayed at St. George Monastery in German Götschendorf
10.05.2012 16:39 ·On May 6, 2012, the commemoration day of St. George the Victorious, celebrations were held on the occasion of the patronal festival at the St. George Monastery at Götschendorf 80 km away from Berlin.
- Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church convenes in Kiev
10.05.2012 11:42 ·
On 8 May 2012, the Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church held its regular session in the Synodal Hall of the Kiev metropolia under the chairmanship of His Beatitude Metropolitan Vladimir of Kiev and All Ukraine.
- 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.
- Members of the Russian Orthodox Holy Synod attend the Parade on the Red Square
09.05.2012 22:30 ·
On 9 May 2012, members of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church: Metropolitan Juvenaly of Krutitsy and Kolomna; 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, attended the military parade on the Red Square marking the Victory Day.
- DECR chairman congratulates François Hollande on his election President of the French Republic
08.05.2012 14:01 ·
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, sent the following greetings to François Hollande with his election President of the French Republic.
- Patriarch’s greetings to François Hollande with his election President of the French Republic
08.05.2012 13:50 ·
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia sent the greeting to Mr. François Hollande, President-elect of the French Republic.
- His Holiness Patriarch Kirill celebrates a prayer service in the Annunciation Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin on the day of Vladimir Putin’s inauguration as President of Russian Federation
07.05.2012 16:08 ·
On 7 May 2012, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia celebrated a prayer service on the occasion of Vladimir Putin’s inauguration as President of the Russian Federation.
- Parish of Myrrh-bearing Women in Venice celebrates patronal feast
04.05.2012 14:30 ·
Praying at the service were worshippers from Padova, Vicenza, Verona and Treviso, and pilgrims from Russia.
- DECR vice-chairman meets with Mufti of Moscow
03.05.2012 16:51 ·
On 3 May 2012, hegumen Philaret (Bulekov), vice-chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations (DECR), met with Albir Krganov, Mufti of Moscow, Central region of Russia and Chuvashia, and member of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation.
- DECR chairman meets with a delegation of the Democratic Party of Japan
02.05.2012 18:12 ·
On May 2, 2012, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations, met with a delegation of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan.
- President of the 66th session of the UN General Assembly visits St. Sergius’s Monastery of the Trinity and Moscow Theological Academy
02.05.2012 15:37 ·
On May 1, 2012, St. Sergius’s Monastery of the Holy Trinity and the Moscow Theological Academy had the honour to welcome H.E. Mr. Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser, president of the 66th session of the UN General Assembly, who was in Moscow for a visit at the invitation of the Russian Academy of Science’s Institute for Oriental Studies.
- DECR Chairman expresses condolences upon terrorist attacks at the University in Nigeria
01.05.2012 13:18 ·
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, expressed his condolences to H.E. Goodluck Jonathan, President of the Republic of Nigeria, upon terrorist attacks perpetrated on the campus of Bayero Christian University on 29 April 2012.
- His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia completes his first official visit to the Bulgarian Orthodox Church
30.04.2012 13:32 ·
On 29 April 2012, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia completed his first official visit to Bulgaria.
- His Holiness Patriarch Kirill lays a wreath at the monument to Tsar Liberator Alexander II in Sofia
30.04.2012 13:25 ·
On 29 April 2012, after the divine service at the Cathedral of St. Alexander Nevsky, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia and members of the delegation that accompanied him laid a wreath and flowers at the monument to the Emperor Alexander II on National Assembly Square in Sofia.
- His Holiness Patriarch Kirill meets with Prime Minister of Bulgaria Boyko Borisov
29.04.2012 15:59 ·
On 28 April 2012, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia met with Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov at the premises of the Council of Ministers.
