The Far Abroad
- Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk meets with head of Greek Archdiocese in America
31.08.2010 10:55 ·
On August 30, 2010, DECR chairman Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, who is in the USA on a working visit with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia and on invitation of His Beatitude Metropolitan Jonah of All America and Canada, visited the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North America to hold a working meeting with Archbishop Demetrios of America.
- DECR chairman meets with head of the Russian Church Outside Russia in New York
31.08.2010 10:22 ·
On August 30, 2010, DECR chairman Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, who is in the USA on a working visit with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia and on invitation of His Beatitude Metropolitan Jonah of All America and Canada, visited the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia to hold a working meeting with the chairman of the ROCOR Bishops’ Synod, Metropolitan Hilarion of Eastern America and New York.
- Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk visits chancellery of Orthodox Church in America
31.08.2010 10:00 ·
On August 30, 2010, DECR chairman Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, who is in the USA on a working visit with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia and on invitation of His Beatitude Metropolitan Jonah of All America and Canada, visited the chancellery of the Orthodox Church in America in Syosset near New York.
- DECR chairman Metropolitan Hilarion begins his working visit to the USA
30.08.2010 12:14 ·
On 28 August 2010, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, arrived on a short working visit to the USA with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia and at the invitation of His Beatitude Metropolitan Jonah of All America and Canada.
- Round Table on Compatriots and Russian Orthodox Church: Experience of Cooperation in Latin America held in Buenos Aires
24.08.2010 08:56 ·
Summing up the work of the round-table conference, Bishop John pointed to the still existing pain of the schism in the South American diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, which has emerged after the canonical unity of the Local Russian Orthodox Church was restored
- DECR delegation arrives in Colombia
18.08.2010 11:13 ·The trip is made with the support of the Russian World Foundation, Russian embassy in Colombia and Colombian embassy in Moscow.
- Fund for Assistance to Russian Church Abroad has collected over 20 thousand dollars in aid to homeless victims of fires
17.08.2010 15:44 ·Since the beginning of the fund-raising campaign in aid to the homeless victims of fires in Russia, the Fund for Assistance to the ROCOR has collected over 20 thousand dollars. The money is coming from both individual donators and organizations and parishes of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, the website of the Moscow Patriarchate has reported.
- Archbishop Kyril of San Francisco and Western America calls the faithful to make donations for victims of wildfires in Russia
17.08.2010 15:22 ·The official website of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia has published an appeal by Archbishop Kyril of San Francisco and Western America concerning the disasters in the Russian Federation. He calls upon all the faithful of the diocese of Western America to begin collecting donations for victims of wildfires.
- Divine Liturgy celebrated in Sumela Monastery for the first time in decades
16.08.2010 17:03 ·
A group of several thousand believers from Russia and other countries of the near abroad came to the old Monastery of the Panagia Sumela near Trabzon, Turkey, on August 15, 2010, to attend the liturgy celebrated by Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople in this unique cultural monument and great Christian shrine which was opened for celebrations for the first time since 1922.
- 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.
- Heads of Russian Orthodox Church Synodal departments hold their first meeting
16.08.2010 13:09 ·On August 16, 2010, the heads of the Russian Orthodox Church Synodal departments assembled for their first meeting at the patriarchal working residence in Chisty Pereulok, Moscow. The meeting was chaired by His Holiness Patriarch Kirill.
- Russian foreign ministry official comments on handing over responsibility for Orthodox shrines to Kosovo police
13.08.2010 13:11 ·
A. Nesterenko, an official of the Russian foreign ministry, has commented on the decision to hand over responsibility for protecting objects of the Serbian cultural and religious heritage to the Kosovo police, the foreign ministry information department has reported.
- Fund for Assistance to Russian Church Abroad collects funds in aid to victims of wildfires in Russia
11.08.2010 12:33 ·On August 9, 2010, the Fund for Assistance to the Russian Church Outside Russia allocated 5000 dollars from its general funds for aid to the victims of wildfires in Russia, the official website of the Church Abroad has reported.
- Orthodox Christians from Russia on pilgrimage to mark 40th anniversary of canonization of St. Herman of Alaska
09.08.2010 14:18 ·
August 7, 2010, a group of pilgrims from Russia led by Archbishop Justinian of Naro-Fominsk, administrator of the Patriarchal Parishes in the USA, and pilgrims from the USA led by the Primate of the Orthodox Church in America, His Beatitude Metropolitan Jonah came to Kodiak Island.
- Russian schoolchildren visit the church of Russian Orthodox Mission in Beijing
04.08.2010 14:47 ·
On July 31, 2010, some 500 schoolchildren from Russia arrived in China on the invitation of PRC chairman Hu Jintao.
- Prayer service for rain and end to fires in Russia held in Jerusalem
04.08.2010 14:41 ·
On August 3, 2010, Archimandrite Isidore, head of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Jerusalem, held a prayer service for rain and end to the fires which have become a real national disaster in Russia.
- Thanksgiving to commemorate Righteous Admiral Fyodor Ushakov’s victory over Ottoman Fleet
04.08.2010 11:43 ·
On July 31, 2010, an anniversary of the heroic victory of the Righteous Admiral Fyodor Ushakov over the Ottoman Fleet, Metropolitan Kirill of Varna and Veliki Preslav, Bulgarian Orthodox Church, celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the Bolgarevo village near Kaliakra Cape.
- DECR chairman meets with Iranian ambassador in Russia
30.07.2010 19:17 ·
On July 30, 2010, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations, met with the Iranian Ambassador to the Russian Federation, H. E. Mahmoud-Reza Sajjadi.
- Participants in the sea cruise meet with Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople and representatives of the Greek Orthodox Church
26.07.2010 16:36 ·Participants in the sea cruise devoted to the 90th anniversary of the exodus of Russian Army units and civil refugees from the Crimea met with representatives of the Local Orthodox Churches in jurisdiction of places to which Russian compatriots escaped in 1920, including Bizert under the Patriarchate of Alexandria, Athens and the Island of Lemnos under the Greek Orthodox Church and Gallipoli and Istanbul under the Patriarchate of Constantinople.
- Holy Venerable Martyrs Grand Duchess Elizabeth and Nun Barbara are commemorated at the Garden of Gethsemane
19.07.2010 11:48 ·
On 17 July 2010, the eve of the commemoration day of the invention of the precious relics of St. Sergius, Hegumen of Radonezh, Archimandrite Isidor (Minayev), head of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Jerusalem officiated at the All-Night Vigil in the Russian Convent of St. Mary Magdalene in the Garden of Gethsemane where the relics of the new martyrs repose, official site of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Jerusalem reports.
