The Far Abroad
- Patriarch Kirill congratulates newly-elected Poland’s President Bronislaw Komorowski
08.07.2010 17:01 ·His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia has sent a congratulatory message to the newly-elected President of the Republic of Poland, Bronislaw Komorowski. Below is the text of the message.
- Working Group for Cooperation between Russian Orthodox Church and Russian World Foundation meeting
06.07.2010 16:36 ·The meeting considered support for the Russian World Foundation’s projects aimed at development of compatriots’ spiritual life and participation of church representatives in the 4th Russian World Assembly to take place on November 3, 2010, in Moscow.
- French officials visit Russian seminary in Paris
05.07.2010 12:13 ·The head of the French Interior Ministry Central Bureau for Cults, Mr. Bertrand Gaume, and French Foreign Ministry adviser for religious affairs, Mr. Olivier Poupard, visited the Russian Seminary in Paris on June 30, 2010. The visit was reported by the official website of the Moscow Patriarchate’s diocese of Korsun on July 3.
- Metropolitan Hilarion visits places linked with the life of St. Gregory the Theologian
29.06.2010 08:32 ·On 28 June 2010, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, currently on a pilgrimage to Cappadocia at the invitation of His Holiness Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, visited Karvali (now Gervali), a place of the fourth century patrimony of St. Gregory the Theologian.
- Metropolitan Hilarion takes part in the meetings of His Holiness Patriarch Bartholomew with the leadership of Nevşhehir Province
29.06.2010 08:02 ·On 28 June 2010, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, currently on a pilgrimage to Cappadocia, took part in the meetings of His Holiness Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople with the Governor of Province Osman Audin, Nevşhehir Mayor Hasan Ünver, and with Mayors of Mustapha-Pasha and Ürgüp.
- Metropolitan Hilarion concelebrates Divine Liturgy in Cappadocia
27.06.2010 17:55 ·On 27 June 2010, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk concelebrated with the Primates of the Orthodox Churches of Constantinople, Alexandria, and Greece at the Church of the Great Martyrs Ss Theodore Tyron and Theodore Stratelates in Malakopi (Derinkuyu).
- Russian Orthodox Church to be given a plot of land for building a church in Madrid
24.06.2010 13:25 ·The patrons board of the Holy Nativity Foundation, set up to finance the construction of a Russian Orthodox church in Madrid, held a meeting in Madrid.
- Svetlana Medvedeva visits main church of Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia in West Coast of United States
24.06.2010 13:25 ·On June 23, the commemoration day of St. Ioann of Tobolsk, the Russian President’s wife Svetlana Medvedeva, who accompanies her husband on his first official visit to California, visited the Cathedral of Our Lady the Joy to All the Afflicted in San Francisco.
- World Summit of Religious Leaders takes place in Canada
22.06.2010 12:35 ·The World Summit of Religious Leaders takes place in Winnipeg on 21-23 June 2010 on the initiative of religious communities in Canada. The Summit is timed to the G8 Summit due to be held in Muscoca, Canada, on 25-27 June 2010.
- Name Day of the Primate of the Orthodox Church in America is celebrated in Washington
22.06.2010 12:29 ·His Beatitude Metropolitan Johan and Ambassador Kislyak expressed their confidence in the development and strengthening of warm cordial relations between the Orthodox Churches of America and Russian for the good of the people of both countries.
- Russian pavilion at Shanghai EKSPO-2010 is blessed
18.06.2010 15:13 ·Archpriest Alexey Kiselevich, a cleric of the Russian Orthodox Church, who has taken pastoral care for an Orthodox community in Shanghai, China, since 2005, conducted an office of blessing of the Russian pavilion at Shanghai EKSPO-2010 on 14 June 2010.
- Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk meets with Belgian ambassador to Russia
18.06.2010 01:08 ·Archbishop Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations, met with H. E. Guy Trouveroy, the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Belgium to the Russian Federation, on 17 June 2010, at the department.
- Representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church attend reception for the Day of Russia at the Russian Embassy in Germany
15.06.2010 09:32 ·On 11 June 2010, a reception was given in the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Berlin on the occasion of the Day of Russia. Archbishop Longin of Klin, representative of the Russian Orthodox Church in Germany, and Archbishop Feofan of Berlin and Germany were among the guests.
- Patriarch Kirill meets with Albanian ambassador in Russian Federation
11.06.2010 18:58 ·His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia met with Albanian Ambassador to Russia, H. E. Sokol Gioka, on June 11, 2010, at the patriarchal residence in Chisty Pereulok.
- Metropolitan Hilarion meets with Russian ambassador in Finland
09.06.2010 08:56 ·Metropolitan Hilarion, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations, who is on a visit to Finland for the enthronement of the head of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland, Archbishop Kari Mäkinen, met on 8 June 2010 with the Russian Ambassador to Finland A. Rumyantsev, at the Russian embassy in Helsinki. Present at the meeting was Archpriest victor Lyutik, rector of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Parish of the Protecting Veil.
- Russian Orthodox Church will take part in the Year of Russia in Italy and in Spain
03.06.2010 14:23 ·On 2 June 2010, hegumen Philipp (Ryabykh), deputy chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, took part in the conferences on the programmes of the Year of Russian Culture and Language in Italy and the Year of Italian Culture and Language in Russia, and also the Year of Russia in Spain and the Year of Spain in Russia.
- DECR Chairman’s message to His Eminence Metropolitan Ambrose of Korea, Seoul, to the participants in the celebration of the 110th anniversary of Orthodoxy in Korea
02.06.2010 12:55 ·I wholeheartedly greet the participants in the celebration of the 100th anniversary of Orthodoxy in Korea.
- Holy Synod takes decisions on external church affairs
01.06.2010 20:37 ·On 31 May 2010, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia chaired a regular session of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church held at the historical building of the Sacred Governing Synod in St. Petersburg.
- Message of the Episcopal Assembly Of the Canonical Orthodox Hierarchs of North and Central America May 26-28, 2010
30.05.2010 02:32 ·(Russian) 28 мая 2010 года завершилась работа Епископского собрания Северной и Центральной Америки, вице-председателем которого является управляющий Патриаршими приходами в США архиепископ Наро-Фоминский Юстиниан. Участники собрания приняли совместное Послание, отражающее вопросы, обсуждавшиеся на мероприятии.
- Moscow Patriarchate hierarchs participate in North and Central American Episcopal Assembly
28.05.2010 11:11 ·The North and Central American Episcopal Assembly is meeting from May 26 to 28, 2010, in New York. It unites Orthodox bishops in the region in accordance with the decisions made by the 4th Pan-Orthodox Pre-Council Conference in June 2009 in Chambesy to establish regional episcopal assemblies of all the canonically recognized Orthodox bishops.
