| Archive Video meeting of representatives of the Synodal institutions of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Ethiopian Church takes place. 30 September 2023 year 10:27 On 29th September 2023, as part of the work of the commission for dialogue between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Ethiopian Church, a video meeting took place between representatives of the Synodal institutions of the two Churches. Participating on behalf of the Russian Orthodox Church were colleagues of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate S. G. Alferov and D. E. Arakelyan. The Ethiopian Church was represented by the head of the Sunday school and youth department Sintaihou Msganav and a number of his colleagues who organize the catechetical, educational and youth ministry in the Ethiopian Church. The participants of the meeting discussed relevant questions on the agenda of the relationship between the two largest Churches of the Eastern Christian world and how to put into effect projects planned by the bilateral commission. The representatives of the Ethiopian Church valued greatly the visits in recent years of delegations of the two Churches to Moscow and Addis Ababa, including the visit that took place a few days ago of the combined choir of the Holy Trinity and Saint Sergius Monastery and the Moscow Theological Academy to Ethiopia as part of the Spiritual Culture of Russia celebration taking place there. Also under review were the possibilities of organizing interchurch cooperation in the sphere of youth ministry and other areas of mutual interest. S. G. Alferov spoke to the representatives of the Ethiopian Church of the work of the special course of study on the ancient Oriental Churches at the department of ecclesiastical disciplines of the Ss. Cyril and Methodius Post-graduate Institute together with the DECR with the aim of preparing specialists in the sphere of external church relations which cover the Oriental Churches. An agreement was reached to continue similar such meetings online on a regular basis. DECR Communication Service /Patriarchia.ru Календарь ← 7 December 2023 year |
| Archive Пн Chinese version of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill’s book In His Own Words to be presented in Moscow 22 September 2021 year 17:37 On September 30, 2021, the presentation of the Chinese version of Patriarch Kirill of Moscow’s book In His Own Words will take place at the Chinese Patriarchal Metochion. The collection contains thoroughly selected passages from His Holiness’ sermons, academic articles, papers, speeches and interviews, with each day of the calendar year having an appropriate passage. In the book, the Chinese reader can take a look at Patriarch Kirill as a pastor of the Church of Christ, a thinker addressing pressing problems of today’s world and a person endowed with a profound spiritual experience and a unique charism of the preacher. The publication of this book in Chinese on the eve of the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church’s 75th birthday reflects the interest of the whole world in the personality of Patriarch Kirill himself and in the life of the whole Russian Orthodox Church. The event will be led by chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate and rector of Ss Cyril and Methodius Institute for Post-Graduate and Doctoral Studies Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk. The presentation will also include other publications of Orthodox literature in Chinese including Catechism: A Concise Guide to Orthodox Faith by Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, a concise illustrated Russian-Chinese dictionary of Orthodox vocabulary, Ascetics for the Laity by Father Pavel Gumerov and others. The publications became possible thanks to the Foundation for Support of Christian Culture and Heritage. The event will be streamed on YouTube for other cities with the simultaneous translation into Chinese: http://www.youtube.com/c/КитайскоеПодворье . It is also possible to participate in the presentation online through the Zoom videoconferencing, the link to which is available on email jidu.zhengjiao@gmail.com with the indication of your name, city of residence and walk of life. Address: Moscow, Pervy Golutvinsky pereulok, 14. The beginning of the event: 16:00. Contacts for mass media: Mariya Prishchepova, Tel: +7 903 233-47-80, wasilisamp@mail.ru . DECR Communication Service /Patriarchia.ru Календарь ← 21 апреля 2024 г. (8 апреля ст.ст.) воскресенье 7 April 2024 year Share with friends |
| Archive Primate of Serbian Church completes his visit to Moscow 25 May 2018 year 15:29 On 25 May 2018, His Holiness Patriarch Irinej of Serbia completed his visit to Moscow. The Primate of the Serbian Orthodox Church was accompanied on his visit by Bishop Irinej of Baka; Archimandrite Isihije (Rogi), abbot of the Kovilj Monastery, Bishop elect of Moha; Deacon Aleksandar Prascevi, head of the Patriarchal Office; and Mr. Dejan Naki, personal secretary to the Patriarch and director of the Belgrade archdiocesan workshop. Among those seeing off His Holiness Patriarch Irinej at the Sheremetyevo Airport were Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations; Bishop Ioann of Domodedovo; Archpriest Nikolai Balashov, DECR vice-chairman; Archpriest Igor Yakimchuk, DECR secretary for inter-Orthodox relations; Mr. Valery Alexeyev, president of the International Public Foundation for the Unity of Orthodox Christian Nations; Mr. Andrei Khoshev, DECR staff member; as well as Bishop Antonije of Moravica, rector of the Moscow Representation of the Serbian Orthodox Church. On May 23, a meeting between the Primates of the Russian and the Serbian Orthodox Churches took place at the Patriarchal working residence in Chysty side street in Moscow. His Holiness Patriarch Irinej received a prize of the International Public Foundation for the Unity of Orthodox Christian Nations. The award ceremony was held in the Hall of Church Councils of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow on May 23. On May 24, commemoration day of Ss. Cyril and Methodius, Equals to the Apostles and Enlighteners of the Slavs, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia and His Holiness Patriarch Irinej of Serbia celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow. After the service they arrived in Red Square to attend a festive concert that marked the Day of Slavonic Literature and Culture. Later the Primates of the Russian and Serbian Orthodox Churches attended a reception at the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. That same day in the evening His Holiness Patriarch Irinej visited the Church of Ss. Peter and Paul at Yauza Gates – the Moscow Representation of the Serbian Orthodox Church. DECR Communication Service /Patriarchia.ru Календарь ← 7 December 2023 year |
| Archive Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk speaks at global Christian youth forum in Manila 10 August 2019 year 11:23 On 8th – 10th August 2019, the Jesus Global Youth Day took place at the Mall of Asia Arena in the city of Manila, the Philippines, bringing together over thirty thousand participants from more than 100 countries. With the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, attended the forum. On 9th August, Metropolitan Hilarion addressed the audience of 30 thousand young people, speaking about the importance of the personality of the Lord Jesus Christ in the life of a Christian. The DECR chairman also told the young people from various continents who gathered together in Manila about the Orthodox faith, the Russian Orthodox Church and its history in the 20th century, making a special emphasis on the revival of church life in the recent thirty years. “Such upturn in religious life in the territory of the former atheistic empire cannot be caused by natural or socio-political factors alone, but clearly is of supernatural character. This revival does not spring from our human efforts. Its main reason is the personality of our Lord Jesus Christ – God Incarnate and Saviour of the world,” the DECR chairman said. Among those present at the meeting were Mr. Teodoro Locsin, Foreign Affairs Secretary of the Philippines; Mr. Igor Khovayev, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Republic of the Philippines; Metropolitan Sergy of Singapore and Southeast Asia, Patriarchal Exarch of Southeast Asia; Metropolitan Pavel of Khanty-Mansiysk and Surgut, acting administrator of the diocese of the Philippines and Vietnam; Mr. K. Mayorov, third secretary of Russia’s Embassy in the Philippines; Hieromonk Pitirim (Dondenko), secretary of the Exarchate; Hieromonk Alexy (Lapshin), cleric of the Iveron Church in Manila; and Mr. D. Lavrentyev, secretary of the Exarchate. Accompanying the DECR chairman on his visit to the Philippines were Hieromonk Ioann (Kopeykin), vice-rector for development at Ss. Cyril and Methodius Theological Institute of Postgraduate Studies; Hieromonk Nikolay (Ono), cleric of the Russian Orthodox Church’s Metochion in Tokyo, Japan; Mr. Philip Champion, DECR staff member; and Subdeacon Vyacheslav Lee. On behalf of the organizers of the Jesus Global Youth Day American Pastor Ron Luce warmly greeted the guests from the Russian Orthodox Church, noting that for the majority of those present Metropolitan Hilarion’s address was the first face-to-face encounter with an Orthodox pastor. DECR Communication Service /Patriarchia.ru Календарь ← 7 December 2023 year |
| Archive Metropolitan Hilarion receives Chairman of Doha International Dialogue Center 29 March 2018 year 11:05 March 28, 2018 – Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations (DECR), met with the head of the Doha International Dialogue Center (DICID) and Qatar’s deputy minister of education, Prof. Ibrahim Al Naimi, at the Ss Cyril and Methodius Institute of Post-Graduate Studies (CMI). Participating in the meeting from the Russian Orthodox Church were also Rev. Dimitry Safonov, DECR secretary for interreligious relations, and I. Kashitsyn, DECR secretariat for interreligious relations. From the Qatari side there were Dr. Mahmoud Al Hamzah, political analyst, Qatari embassy in Russia, and Mr. Mahmoud Afraj, Qatari ministry of foreign affairs. During their substantial talk, the sides discussed various aspects of dialogue of between religions. Prof. Al Naimi spoke about his center’s scientific and practical projects aimed to develop tolerance and mutual understanding between Christians and Muslims and the participation of Christian Churches in DICID’s work. Metropolitan Hilarion introduced his guest to the work of the Church’s post-graduate school and its educational and scientific programs in which, along with other subjects, various issues of interreligious interaction are studied. They also discussed the situation in the Middle East. The DECR chairman informed his guest about the work carried out by the Russian Orthodox Church to give support to Christian minorities in the region. He mentioned a number of humanitarian actions undertaken by the Moscow Patriarchate in Syria. In the conclusion of the meeting, the sides agreed to develop cooperation, which can be realized as part of a Cross Year of Russian and Qatari Cultures. They also underscored the importance of participation of the Moscow Patriarchate representatives in annual interreligious forums held by DICID in Doha. DECR Communication Service /Patriarchia.ru Календарь ← 7 December 2023 year |
| Archive The Sixth International Patristic Conference on St. Basil the Great in the Theological Tradition of East and West completed its work in the CMI 16 April 2019 year 13:47 From April 11-12, 2019, the Sixth International Patristic Conference, devoted to the legacy of St. Basil the Great, was held at the Ss Cyril and Methodius Institute of Post-Graduate Studies (CMI). In its eighth issue sections, leading specialists in patristics, liturgics and the history of the Early Church presented papers on the theological, exegetical, liturgical and ascetic teaching of St. Basil the Great. At the closing session, Bishop Irenaeus of Sacramento, vicar of the Russian Church Outside Russia’s diocese of America, professor at the University of Oxford, Great Britain, summed up the results of the conference. He gave a high value to the international theological-patristic forum held in the CMI at which a fruitful exchange took place between scholars from various countries and representatives of Christian Churches in East and West. On behalf of the participants in the conference, Bishop Irenaeus thanked the CMI rector, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, for his initiative to hold annual patristic conferences to give specialists in patristic studies a unique opportunity for meeting and discussing topical matters concerning studies into the legacy of a particular father of the Church. The forum agreed to prepare a collection of papers on various topics concerning the biography, works and theological teaching of St. Basil the Great. The conference concluded on April 13 with the Divine Liturgy celebrated in the church of Our Lady the Joy to All the Afflicted-in-Bolshaya Ordynka. The liturgy was presided over by Metropolitan Hilarion. After the liturgy, the guests were invited to a lunch in the course of which they had an opportunity to continue discussing the results of the forum. The event was conducted with the financial support of the Kirche in Not and Poznaniye charities. CMI Press Service/Patriarchia.ru Календарь ← 7 December 2023 year |
| Monument to Pushkin, rejected in Estonia, to be installed in Greece Moscow, May 28, 2014 A bust of Alexander Pushkin by Stanislav Nechvolodov was set to be installed in Tartu, but the Estonian authorities prohibited it. Now it will be installed in Delphi, where a memorial park to great literary figures of the world will be opened, reports AgionOros.ru . The monument to the great Russian poet Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin will be installed on the Parnassus in Delphi, Greece. Its opening is scheduled for June 6, the poet’s birthday, when the Day of Russian language is celebrated, reported author Oleg Volovik, speaking at the Russian Center of Science and Culture in Athens at an evening dedicated to the heritage of Sts. Cyril and Methodius. The monument was evacuated from Estonia after the local authorities had “outlawed Pushkin”, and it eventually ended up on Mount Parnassus where Apollo and the Muses dwelled, and where lived the winged horse Pegasus—a symbol of poetic inspiration and eloquence. Parnassus is mentioned in many works of Pushkin. “The monument to Pushkin became unwanted in Estonia several years ago; the Estonian authorities did not grant permission to erect it. I would like to stress that this was the work of several bureaucrats—not of the Estonian people nor the residents of Tartu from which we evacuated the monument,” Volovik said. He is the chairman of the International Federation of Russian-speaking Writers, on whose initiative several monuments to outstanding compatriots were installed all over the world. There was a plan to install the monument to Pushkin on the territory of the University of Tartu in 1999 when the 200th anniversary of the poet’s birth was celebrated. “We decided that this monument should stand on the slopes of the Mount Parnassus in Greece, in the town of Delphi. Work is now being carried out in Delphi, and with the help of our Greek friends we will place Pushkin on Parnassus. The opening will take place on June 6—the great poet’s birthday and the Day of Russian Language, and we are inviting everyone to the festive event,” Volovik announced. The monument to Pushkin in Delphi will be open in the memorial park of great literary figures of the world, related Volovik in his interview with RIA-Novosti . The bust to Pushkin by Stanislav Nechvolodov will be set up near the world-famous sanctuary in Delphi, in a little pine grove. 31 мая 2014 г. Смотри также Комментарии Seraphima 1 июня 2014, 08:00 I wonder what the sculptors thought/told the bureaucrats in return. How many Russians in Greece are expected to attend this event?? Мы в соцсетях Подпишитесь на нашу рассылку |
| " We are unpleasantly surprised by the fact that Orthodox parishes are captured and the Orthodox are subjected to discrimination in Ukraine. Where is the state power, which does not defend people and fails to ensure their religious rights? Ukraine wants to be a democratic state, but there must be order in a democracy, " said the primate of the Polish Orthodox Church, His Beatitude Metropolitan Savva of Warsaw and All Poland, during his meeting with Archpriest Nikolay Danilevich, vice-chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC), who is in Warsaw for an OSCE conference. During the meeting, which took place on October 1, 2015, at the metropolitan’s residence, Archpriest Nikolay informed His Beatitude about the present situation concerning the rights of the UOC faithful as some local councils have adopted discriminative decisions with regard to the UOC and its churches have been captured. Metropolitan Savva, on his part, spoke about the status and rights of the Orthodox Church in Poland, regulated by a special state law adopted in 1992 whereby the Orthodox minority in this Catholic country enjoys all the necessary rights. His Beatitude also spoke about the situation concerning the Ss. Cyril and Methodius Monastery in Ujkovice, which was closed by the decision of the Holy Synod of the Polish Orthodox Church for various canonical violations. Among them are cases in which the monastery clergy concelebrated with representatives of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kiev Patriarchate (UOC KP), which is not recognized by the world of Orthodoxy. It was noted that the number of Ukrainians has noticeably increased in Polish Orthodox churches today, and the local clergy give them the proper pastoral care. Metropolitan Savva said he prays for Ukraine in this crucial time for the Ukrainian state and conveyed words of fraternal support to the primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, His Beatitude Metropolitan Onufry of Kiev and All Ukraine. Edited by OrthoChristian.com 2 октября 2015 г. Смотри также Комментарии Мы в соцсетях Подпишитесь на нашу рассылку |
| Archive “Reading the Bible Together” audio project timed to the 75th birthday of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill is presented at Chernigov Metochion in Moscow 25 November 2021 year 11:55 The release of the first part of the “Reading the Bible Together. The New Testament” audio project was timed to coincide with the 75th birthday of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia. It was presented at the Book Chamber of the Patriarchal Metochion of Chernigov Wonder-workers on November 24, 2021, by Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, rector of the Ss Cyril and Methodius Theological Institute of Post-Graduate Studies, co-chairman of the Christian Inter-confessional Consultative Committee (CICC), and rector of the Patriarchal Metochion of Chernigov Wonder-workers. Working on the project were well-known film and theatre actors, including Yevgeny Mironov, Andrei Zavodyuk, Aleksey Fateyev, Igor Gordin, Sergei Makhhovikov, Aleksey Ivschenko, Aleksandr Gruzdev, Sergei Kolesnikov, Denis Nekrasov, Aleksandr Kovrizhnykh, Igor Taradaikin, and many others. The Audio Bible has been released as a mobile application which can be downloaded to AppStore and Google Play for free by typing “Библия, читаем вместе” into a search engine. Heads and representatives of Christian confessions in the Russian Federation, members of the Christian Inter-confessional Consultative Committee were among the guests: Archbishop Paolo Pezzi, ordinary of the Archdiocese of the Mother of God in Moscow, co-chairman of the CCIA; Archbishop Dietrich Brauer, Archbishop of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Russia, co-chairman of the CCIC; Sergei V. Ryakhovsky, Head Bishop of the Russian United Union of Christians of Evangelical Faith (Pentecostals); Peter V. Mitskevich, President of the Russian Union of Evangelical Christians-Baptists; Ivan I. Borichevsky, head of Administration of the Head Bishop of the Russian Church of Christians of Evangelical Faith; Oleg Yu. Goncharov, first deputy chairman of the Euro-Asia Division of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists; Hieromonk Stefan (Igumnov), DECR secretary for inter-Christian relations and secretary of the CCIC; Viktor V. Ignatenkov, senior vice-president of the Russian Union of Evangelical Christians-Baptists; and Dmitry D. Shatrov, deputy Bishop of the Russian United Union of Christians of Evangelical Faith (Pentecostals) in the Northwestern Federal District. |
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