Orthodox Churches

His Holiness Patriarch Kirill met with the delegation of the Syrian hierarchs

On 8 October 2013, the commemoration day of St Sergius of Radonezh, after the Divine Liturgy and a thanksgiving celebrated in the Laura of the Holy Trinity and St Sergius, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill met with the delegation of the Syrian hierarchs who attended the service.

Serbian Orthodox Church gets archive materials about ecclesiastical life in Serbia in the period between two world wars

At the solemn assembly held in Niš, Serbia, in honour of the 1700^th anniversary of the Edict of Milan, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia presented His Holiness Patriarch Irinej of Serbia with the digitized copies of the archive materials of the Holy Synod of the Serbian Orthodox Church for the period between the two world wars.

Patriarch Kirill visits Representation of the Russion Orthodox Church in Belgrade

His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, who participates in the celebrations of the 1700th anniversary of the Edict of Milan, visited on 4 October 2013 the Representation of the Moscow Patriarchate of Belgrade. 

The delegation of Patriarch Kirill consisted of: Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, director of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate; head of the Representation of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Moscow Bishop Antonije of Moravica, chairman of the Administrative department of the Moscow Patriarchate Bishop Sergiy of Solnechnogorsk, as well as protopresbyters Nikolay Balashov and Igor Jakimchuk.

Meeting of Patriarch Bartholomew and Patriarch Kirill

Yesterday, on October 6 2013, His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, met yesterday in Podgorica. The Primates of two Churches are in Podgorica on the occasion of the consecration of the Cathedral church of the Resurrection of God in Podgorica

Patriarch Bartholomew and Patriarch Kirill discussed about issues of the Orthodox cooperation and relation between two Patriarchates. On behalf of the Russian Orthodox Church on the meeting there were President of the Department for External Church Relations Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, protopresbyter Nikolay Balashov and protopresbyter Igor Jakimchuk, while on behalf of the Ecumenical Patriarchate on the meeting there were Metropolitan Emanuel of France, Secretary General of the Holy and Sacred Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate Archimandrite Bartholomew (Samaras) and archdeacon Maxim (Vgenopoulos). 

Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia at Rakovica monastery

 His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia along with the official delegation of the Russian Orthodox Church visited Rakovica Monastery in Belgrade yesterday, on 4 October 2013. The Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church served the memorial service at the tombs of Serbian Patriarchs Dimitrije and Pavle.

Exhibition dedicated to the 1025th anniversary of the Baptism of Russia opens in Rome

An exhibition marking the 1025^th anniversary of the Baptism of Russia is being held at the Russian Centre of Science and Culture in Rome on 27 September – 4 October 2013. Its co-organizers are the Embassy of the Russian Federation to the Vatican, the Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States, Compatriots Living Abroad and International Humanitarian Cooperation (Rossotrudnichestvo), and the parish of the Church of St Catherine the Great Martyr in Rome.