Saint Stephen of Dechani, Patron Saint of the Military Base “South”, was solemnly celebrated in this base with the Holy Liturgy which was officiated by His Grace Bishop Pahomije of Vranje on 24 November 2018. The feast-day’s joy was enhanced by chanting of responses by nuns from the monastery of Holy Archangel Stephen and the…

Three weeks after the primate of the Japanese Orthodox Church, His Beatitude Metropolitan Daniel of Tokyo and All Japan, celebrated a moleben of thanksgiving in the new Church of the “It Is Truly Meet” Icon of the Mother of God at the Monastery of St. Nicholas of Japan, the monastery experienced another great spiritual joy….

On November 26, after his working visit to North Korea, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations (DECR), arrived in Beijing. At the Russian embassy in the PRC, the DECR chairman met with the Russian ambassador to China A. I. Denisov. They discussed a wide range of issues…

On 26 November 2018, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, met with Mr. Kim Yong-dae, vice-president of the Supreme People’s Assembly of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, and with Mr. Im Chon-il, deputy minister of Foreign Affairs of the DPRK. Taking part in the meetings with…

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…