Bishop Hilarion

Russian Church Prepared to Send Monk Envoys to Kosovo

April 29, 2012 Featured News

29/4/2012 The Russian Church is ready to send monks as envoys to help Christians in Kosovo, said Russian Church external relations chair, metropolitan bishon Hilarion. Bishop Hilarion is part of a large Russian church delegation, headed by Patriarch Kirill, which is in in Bulgaria since Friday. “We support this idea and like we have …

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The Russian Church urges EU leadership to understand spiritual reasons behind the recession

May 14, 2009 News

The Moscow Patriarchate reminded EU leadership of spiritual roots of the current downfall. “With any crisis, we need primarily to look for spiritual reasons. This is also true for the current economic recession,” head of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations Bishop Hilarion of Volokolamsk said at a meeting of the President of [...]

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Patriarch Kirill’s sermon at rock concert sets the style of new missionary policy, the Russian Church Believes

April 14, 2009 News

Moscow, April 10, Interfax – Head of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations Bishop Hilarion of Volokolamsk promises to diversify missionary policy of the Church and forms of church dialogue with youth.“Today Church and society is in fact one and the same thing. Our church believers go to discos and rock-concerts, and if [...]

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The Moscow Patriarchate approves of Pope’s uncompromising position on Ethics

April 9, 2009 News

Moscow, April 6, Interfax – Refusal of Pope Benedict XVI to use politically correct language and offer compromise on traditional issues of Christian ethics has gained support of the Russian Orthodox Church.”The difference of this current Pope from his predecessor is that this Pope never watches for political correctness in his statements. This is …

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Bishop Hilarion becomes Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations Chief

April 2, 2009 News

Moscow, March 31, Interfax – Bishop Hilarion of Vienna and Austria has been appointed head of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations.On Tuesday, the Holy Synod “unanimously approved Bishop Hilarion as chairman of the DECR, Patriarchate spokesman priest Vladimir Vigilyansky told reporters after the meeting.”He will now being transferred to Moscow from …

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Patriarch Kirill to give a new impulse to inter-Orthodox relations – Bishop Hilarion

February 8, 2009 News

Moscow, February 4, Interfax – Dialogues between local Orthodox Churches may receive new development under Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, Bishop Hilarion of Vienna and Austria, head of the Moscow Patriarchate Representation to European Institutions.“I believe new Patriarch will give a new start to inter-Orthodox relations and participation of the Russian Church …

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