Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeev)

Working group set up for discussing issues of strengthening church unity holds its session on the eve of celebrating 5th anniversary of the Act of Canonical Communion

Lithuanian version of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill’s book Freedom and Responsibility presented in Vilnius

On 14 May 2012, the Lithuanian version of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill’s book Freedom and Responsibility: In Search of Harmony. Human Rights and Personal Dignity was presented at Seimas Palace of the Republic of Lithuania.

Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk and Archbishop Innokenty of Vilna and Lithuania celebrate Divine Liturgy in Vilnius

On May 13, they celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the cathedral church of the Monastery of the Holy Spirit in Vilnius. They were assisted by the brethren of the monastery. Among the worshippers was the head of the Russian diplomatic mission in Lithuania.

Photo exhibition dedicated to the 65th birthday of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill opens in Moscow

“Dialogue: Church, Society, State” photo exhibition opened at the Gallery of Classical Photography in Moscow on 9 November 2011. The viewers can be introduced to the primatial ministry of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia by looking at 150 photos presented by the press office of the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church and the photobank of RIA ‘Novosti’.

Patriarch Kirill celebrates Divine Liturgy at the church of Our Lady the Joy to All the Afflicted-in-Bolshaya Ordynka

During the liturgy Patriarch Kirill led the bishops in consecrating Archimandrite Guriy (Fedorov) as Bishop Aresenyev and Dalnegorsk.

Metropolitan Hilarion made doctor of theology honoris causa by St. Petersburg Theological Academy

Metropolitan Hilarion met with the members of the Academic Board, faculty and students of the Academy.

Speech by Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk at the OSCE high- level meeting ‘Preventing and Responding to Hate Incidents and Crimes against Christians’ (Rome, Italy, 12 September 2011)

The high-level meeting on Preventing and Responding to Hate Incidents and Crimes against Christians took place on September 12, 2011, in Rome. It has become one of the first issue events to be held by the OSCE on the problem of Christanophobia.

Metropolitan Hilarion: Recommendations on general Orthodox themes made by some Churches cannot be binding upon the others

The Primates and hierarchs of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, Jerusalem and the Church of Cyprus met in Istanbul on 1-3 September 2011. Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations (DECR) commented on the meeting results in his interview to ‘Izvestia’ newspaper. The interview was published on 7 September 2011.

Metropolitan Hilarion: We must always remember of our responsibility as Christians

On 4 September 2011, commemoration day of the Synaxis of Moscow Saints, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, celebrated Divine Liturgy at the Church of ‘Joy to All the Afflicted’ icon of the Mother of God, Bolshaya Ordynka street, Moscow.

Metropolitan Hilarion gives interview to Serbian newspaper Politika

In an interview in the Serbian newspaper Politika published on 31 August 2011 with the chairman of the Department for External Church Relations Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk questions of inter-Orthodox and inter-Christian relations, the topic of the Church’s witness to the contemporary world and the situation in the region of Kosovo were touched upon

Metropolitan Hilarion: There are no grounds to expect the Pan-Orthodox Council to run into surprises

Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, made a journey to the Middle East in the end of August. He visited three ancient Local Churches and met with their Primates. Upon returning to Moscow, he spoke about his visit to “Interfax-Religion.”

Metropolitan Hilarion: Lack of faith is an illness, while faith is spiritual health

On 31 July 2011, the commemoration day of the Holy Fathers of the Seven Ecumenical Councils, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations (DECR), celebrated Divine Liturgy at the Church of the “Joy to All the Afflicted” icon of the Mother of God.

Metropolitan Hilarion: Russian Church’s presence on international scene is aimed at witnessing the beauty of Orthodoxy

TV programme “The Church and the World” broadcast on 23 July 2011 was dedicated to the 65th anniversary of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations (DECR).

Metropolitan Hilarion: the fate of Czar’s family is inseparable from the fate of the whole people of Russia

On July 17, 2011, the commemoration day of the Holy Royal Passion-bearers, Metropolitan Hilarion, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations, celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the church of Our Lady the Joy to All the Afflicted in Moscow.

“The Feast and the Eucharist” – the paper read by Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk at the Assumption Readings (29 September 2010, Kiev)

Your Beatitude, Your Eminences, Fathers, Brothers and Sisters:
The day which followed the six days of the creation was the first feast to be celebrated as a day free from work, a day of rest and quiet (this is how the modern man understands any feast): By the seventh day God had finished the work he [...]