Tag: moscow patriarchate

Moscow Restores Two Kremlin Wall Icons Hidden by the Soviets

The Icon of the Smolenksy Saviour – Spas Smolensky on the Spasskaya Tower  Thanks to Zenit – Two icons covered in plaster on towers of the Moscow Kremlin are being restored. It is…

Russian Roman Catholics and Orthodox

Papal trip to Moscow and the number of parishes in the capital. Moscow (thanks to AsiaNews) – June 9, 2010     “The Catholic community in Russia is a minority and must…

Christian Unity: In the Shoes of the Fisherman

Cobbler Gives Same Shoes to Pontiff, Patriarch CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy, AUG. 25, 2010 (Zenit.org).- It’s a known fact that a good pair of shoes can help lessen the aches and pains of…

Metropolitan Hilarion celebrates Divine Liturgy at Tomb of St Peter

On 19 May 2010, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, Chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, currently in Italy with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and…

Patriarch Kirill of Moscow visits the graves of Katyn

Prime Ministers Putin and Puck in April 2010 at the Katyn Memorial The Russian Orthodox patriarch has visited the graves of the 22,000 Poles near Smolensk, who were massacred under the rule…

THE NEW PATRIARCH OF MOSCOW AND ALL THE RUSSIAS

Fr John Salter, Chairman, writes in Chrysostom for Pascha 2010:      Following the death of Patriarch Alexis II the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Patriarchal Church has elected   Metropolitan Kyril of…

Pan-Orthodox Council welcomed in Rome

VATICAN CITY, JUNE 3, 2010 thanks to Zenit.org The forthcoming preparation of a Pan-Orthodox Council is a reason for joy, says a subsecretary of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. Msgr.…