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Putin sworn in as Russia’s President‎

by OCP May 8, 2012 Featured News

Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia made supplicatory prayer service (​​Moleben) at the Annunciation Cathedral on the occasion of the inauguration President Vladimir Putin as the Russian President. May. 7, 2012 – Vladimir Putin has been sworn in as Russia’s president for a third term after four years as prime minister. …

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Sixty-Four Percent of Russians Trust Orthodox Church – Poll

by OCP May 5, 2012 News

04/05/2012 MOSCOW,(RIA Novosti) Russians have more trust in the Russian Orthodox Church in general than in its head Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, according to a survey conducted by the Kremlin-backed pollster Public Opinion Foundation (FOM). The survey, the results of which were published on Friday, said 64 percent of Russians have confidence [...]

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Patriarch Kirill calls on Bulgarian PM to base policies on Orthodox Christian values

by OCP May 3, 2012 News

Sofia, May 2, Interfax – Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia has said he attaches great importance to the fact that Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov is an Orthodox Christian. “I sympathize with your Orthodox Christian choice and would like to wish God’s help in your service and that your connection with the Orthodox [...]

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Russian Church Prepared to Send Monk Envoys to Kosovo

by OCP 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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Russian Patriarch awarded honorary degree of University of Library Studies and Information Technology

by OCP April 29, 2012 News

29/4/2012 Sofia. Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia has been awarded an honorary degree of the University of Library Studies and Information Technology, FOCUS News Agency reported. The degree was presented by the university rector, professor Stoyan Denchev. Patriarch Kirill received also a gift from the university management – a picture of the Russian [...]

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Thousands of Bulgarians Meet Russian Patriarch in Plovdiv

by OCP April 29, 2012 Featured News

28/4/2012 Thousands of people met the head of the Russian Orthodox Church in the center of Bulgaria’s second largest city of Plovdiv, chanting “Russia” and accompanying clerics in their procession with church banners. Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, who arrived in Bulgaria on a visit on Friday, earlier on Saturday met with President [...]

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Patriarch Kirill plans several trips abroad in 2012

by OCP April 27, 2012 News

Moscow, April 25, Interfax – Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia plans several trips abroad this year, Metropolitan Hilarion, the head of the Synodal Church and Society Department, said at a press conference in Moscow. In particular, the Patriarch plans to go to Bulgaria on April 27-29, to Cyprus in June, to Poland in [...]

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Bulgarian and Russian orthodox churches can play role of a bridge between the two nations: Russian Patriarch

by OCP April 27, 2012 News

Focus News Agency 26/4/2012 Our two churches are brotherly churches, with very close historical, cultural and spiritual bonds, which date back into the past, Patriarch Kirill of Russia and All Moscow said in an interview with Bulgarian television TV7 ahead of his visit to Bulgaria between 27 and 29 April. Our two churches are brotherly [...]

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On Easter eve Patriarch Kirill urges society to leave behind “the spiritual emptiness”

by OCP April 17, 2012 News

Moscow, April 14, Interfax – Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia congratulated clerics and parish on the coming feast of Easter. “May our behavior, in contradiction to the evil spirit of this age, become the visible affirmation of Eternal Truth. For, although we live today in conditions of social and religious freedom, the striving [...]

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It may be tragic, but I’ll never have a Breguet. And I also won’t have “not expensive watch with the coat of arms” – Patriarch Kirill

by OCP April 8, 2012 Featured News

Valentina TRUBETSKAYA, Interfax-Religion editor-in-chief 8/4/2012 It may be tragic, but I’ll never have a Breguet. And I also won’t have “not expensive watch with the coat of arms”. I just don’t wear watch. As happiness takes no account of time and I affiliate myself to those happy people who live in a real, not virtual [...]

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Russian Orthodox Church apologises for doctored photo

by OCP April 8, 2012 News

5/4/2012 The Russian Orthodox Church apologised on Thursday for doctoring a photograph of Patriarch Kirill to remove what bloggers said was a luxury wristwatch following accusations that he lives a lavish lifestyle. It responded after eagle-eyed bloggers said an archive photo of the Patriarch on its website showed the reflection of a Breguet watch worth [...]

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Russian Church Says It Is Under Attack for Backing Putin

by OCP April 5, 2012 News

4/4/2012 Reuters Patriarch Kirill says the church is targeted because of its support for Putin. Russia’s Orthodox Church says it is under attack from unspecified “anti-Russian forces” seeking to erode its authority, after it threw its weight behind Vladimir Putin before last month’s presidential election. An unusually strongly worded statement issued Tuesday listed a recent [...]

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Patriarch Kirill is going to donate to charities all money earned in case over the flat in the House on the Embankment

by OCP April 5, 2012 News

Moscow, March 30, Interfax – Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia told about nuances of judicial proceedings connected with his flat in the famous House on the Embankment in downtown Moscow. He has recently met with renowned TV anchor Vladimir Solovyov who cited the Primate’s story on air the Vesti FM radio station. “Suddenly [...]

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Spiritual resetting for Russia and US

by OCP April 3, 2012 News

Milena Faustova 1/4/2012 “Resetting relations between countries is impossible without changing attitudes to each other. Today we should think how we could add a humanitarian and spiritual dimension to relations between Russia and the US,” Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, said at a meeting with US Ambassador Michael McFaul in Moscow [...]

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Russian Patriarch Says Punk Band ‘Desecrated’ Church

by OCP March 26, 2012 News
Yekaterina Samutsevich, a member of the punk band Pussy Riot, appears in Tagansky District Court, Moscow.

25/3/2012 Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill says a female punk band desecrated the Cathedral of Christ the Savior when they stormed the church and performed. Members of the band Pussy Riot said the action on February 4 was to protest the patriarch’s support for Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin who won reelection as president on March [...]

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Latvian version of Patriarch Kirill’s book presented in Riga

by OCP March 23, 2012 News

20/3/2012 On 19 March 2012, the Latvian version of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill’s book ‘Freedom and Responsibility: In Search of Harmony. Human Rights and Personal Dignity’ was presented at the premises of the Cathedral of the Nativity of Christ in Riga. Present at the presentation were Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s [...]

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Patriarch Kirill Mourns Pope Shenouda

by OCP March 20, 2012 Featured News

19/3/2012 Translated using Google translate service. Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill expressed his condolences to the members of the Holy Synod of the Coptic Church in connection with the death of the Primate of the Coptic Church, Pope and Patriarch Shenouda III. The Holy Synod of the Coptic Church Your Eminence, and Grace, [...]

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Patriarch Kirill receives delegation of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem

by OCP March 16, 2012 News

14.03.2012 On March 14, 2012, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia met with a delegation of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem at the Patriarchal chambers of the Church of Christ the Saviour. The delegation included Archbishop Aristarchos of Constantina, Archbishop Theophylaktos of Jordan and Archimandrite Stephanos (Dispirakis), representative of the Patriarch of the [...]

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Patriarch Kirill decorates world first woman-cosmonaut with a rare church order

by OCP March 6, 2012 Featured News
Valentina Tereshkova

Moscow, March 6, Interfax – Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia decided to decorate first woman-cosmonaut and State Duma MP Valentina Tereshkova with a church order for Glory and Honor (1st degree). Such a decision was taken regarding how much Tereshkova made for “Motherland and the Russian Orthodox Church,” the Patriarch said in his [...]

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A church consecrated in the Monastery of the Dormition in Thailand

by OCP February 10, 2012 News

On February 9, 2012, Archbishop Mark of Yegoryevsk, director of the Moscow Patriarchate’s office for institutions abroad, who is on a visit to Thailand, consecrated the church dedicated to the Dormition of the Mother of God at the Monastery of the Dormition in Ratchaburi. With the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and [...]

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Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill calls Putin era a “miracle of God”

by OCP February 9, 2012 Featured News

By Gleb Bryanski MOSCOW 8/2/2012 (Reuters) – The head of the Russian Orthodox church on Wednesday called the 12 years of Vladimir Putin’s rule a “miracle of God” and criticised his opponents, at a gathering where religious leaders heaped praise on the prime minister. Putin wants support from spiritual figures for his campaign to win [...]

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“A Pastor’s Word” by His Holiness Patriarch Kirill is translated into Estonian

by OCP February 6, 2012 News

3.02.2012 His Holiness Patriarch Kirill’s book ‘A Pastor’s Word” in the Estonian language was presented at the Center of Russian Culture in Tallinn on 1 February 2012, official website of the Estonian Orthodox Church reports. The book in Russian written by the Patriarch, at that time Metropolitan, was first published in 2004. Translation into Estonian [...]

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Third anniversary of the enthronement of Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia marked by Divine Liturgy at Church of Christ the Savior

by OCP February 3, 2012 Featured News

        2/2/2012 On February 1, 2012, the 3d anniversary of the enthronement of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, the Divine Liturgy was celebrated at the Church of Christ the Saviour. The Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church was assisted by Metropolitans Vladimir of St. Petersburg and Ladoga, Juvenaly [...]

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Russian Church to help Serbian Orthodox Monasteries in Kosovo

by OCP February 2, 2012 News

Moscow, January 30, Interfax – Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia has expressed concerns about the situation of residents of Kosovo and Metohija. “Serbs living in Kosovo and Metohija have found themselves pawns of a big geopolitical game. Many countries are indifferent to them and they have to live in closed enclaves in daily [...]

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Patriarch Kirill warns people against rallies and urges not to listen to populists

by OCP February 1, 2012 News

Moscow, February 1, Interfax – Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia urges believers to share his prayers about Russia as the country “is going through a very responsible and difficult stage of its development.” “Let’s unite our forces. Orthodox people can’t go to demonstrations, they stand in queues to venerate the Belt of the [...]

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