On 25 November 2018, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk and the delegation of the Russian Orthodox Church led by him visited the diplomatic representation of the Russian Federation in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. The chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations laid flowers to the memorial plaque dedicated to Andrei Karlov,…

On 25 November 2018, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations (DECR), and Archbishop Sergy of Solnechnogorsk, administrator of the Moscow Patriarchate’s parishes in the East and Southeast Asia countries celebrated Divine Liturgy at the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity in Pyongyang together with Rev. Feodor Kim, senior…

On 24 November 2018, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk arrived in Pyongyang. Meeting the head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations at the airport in the capital of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea were Mr. Vitaly Kim Ji Son, chairman of the DPRK Orthodox Committee; Mr. Alexander Matsegora, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary…

Sunday morning, His Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel of Romania officiated the consecration ceremony of the Romanian People’s Salvation Cathedral in Bucharest. The idea to build the Romanian People’s Salvation Cathedral was launched right after Romania gained its state independence in 1877 but became reality 130 years later during the stewardship…

On the 23rd – 24th of November 2018, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, made a brief stop in Beijing on his way from Seoul to Pyongyang. On the 24th of November Vladyka Hilarion celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the Holy Dormition Church in the territory of the Russian Embassy…

In 1929, the Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church decided that the feast of the Virgin Mary would be the Day of the Christian Family and Orthodox Youth. A true spiritual celebration became the 21st of November – the Day of the Christian Family and the Orthodox Youth. At the Feast of the Virgin…

  On Friday Evening November 16, 2018, Fr. John Behr ( Professor of Patristics at the St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary) met with the seminarians at the St. John of Damascus Institute of Theology, in the presence of Fr. Porphyrios Georgi, Dean of the Institute and Archimandrite Maxim Jamal, Director of Students Life. In his…

Under the High Patronage of His Beatitude Patriarch John X of Antioch and All the East, Fr. John Behr, Professor of Patristics at St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary, gave a lecture ٍSaturday evening November 17, 2018, at the Our Lady of Balamand Patriarchal Monastery on Saturday Evening, November 17, 2018. The lecture was titled: “Becoming…

The site of the Russian Orthodox Church published a news article on His Beatitude Archbishop Anastasios of Tirana, Durrës, and All Albania’s letter to His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of October 10 in which His Beatitude expressed his concern that the implementation of the Ukrainian autocephaly project by the Patriarchate of Constantinople “will become a walk…