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Archpriest Alexey Kiselevich, a cleric of the Russian Orthodox Church, who has taken pastoral care for an Orthodox community in Shanghai, China, since 2005, conducted an office of blessing of the Russian pavilion at Shanghai EKSPO-2010 on 14 June 2010.
The 4th Conference of Russian Compatriots in China took place on May 4-5, 2010, in Harbin under the theme "Russian Historical Heritage in China: Problems of Study, Preservation and Popularization in the Light of the 65th Anniversary of the Great Victory". It was attended by representatives from all the regions in China as well as Russian Orthodox clergy including Archpriest Dionisy Pozdnyaev, rector of Sts Peter and Paul's Church in Hong Kong, and Rev. Sergiy Voronin, rector of the Orthodox Community of the Dormition at the Russian embassy.
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, sent the following message of condolences over the earthquake in the Quinghai Province to the President of the People’s Republic of China Hu Jintao.

Over one hundred Russian compatriots came to the church of the Protecting Veil in Harbin, China, on Easter Day, April 4, 2010, for the Easter matins and liturgy. Most of them made confession and took communion.

帝國的陷落
──拜占庭的教訓
The Fall of an Empire
The Lesson of Byzantium
英話旁白 中文字幕
In English with Chinese subtitles

On 18 November 2009, Archbishop Hilarion of Volokolamsk met with representatives of the traditional religions of China at the headquarters of the Islamic Association of China. The head of the delegation of the Presidential Council for Cooperation with Religious Organizations and the Moscow Patriarchate Department for external church relations was greeted by a member of the People's Political Consultative Council of China...

Archbishop Hilarion, Chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of Moscow Patriarchate, a permanent member of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church is starting a visit to China. Visit is conducted at the invitation of the State Administration for Religious Affairs under the State Council of China.





