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Hilarion (secular name Grigory Valerievich Alfeyev, Russian: Григо́рий Вале́риевич Алфе́ев; 24 July 1966) is a bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church; currently he is the retired metropolitan of Budapest and Hungary.
In January 2002, Hilarion (Alfeyev) was consecrated Bishop of Kerch as an assistant bishop for the Sourozh diocese, assuming the title previously held by Archbishop Anatoly who was sent into retirement for the purpose. [34] According to the Russian Orthodox Church, initially, Bishop Hilarion was well accepted by the diocese as a whole. [35]
According to Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev: "since he took the Diocese of Saint Petersburg, he had to work for two cities: he spent half the week in St. Petersburg, half the week in Moscow. This constant travel by plane or Sapsan, of course, was extremely tiring for the bishop. Therefore, he asked the Patriarch to relieve him from his post as ...
Bishop Hilarion (Alfeyev) wrote in 1999 that: “Even though the movement of the 'Name-worshippers' was crushed at the beginning of the century on the orders of the Holy Synod, discussion of the matter regained impetus in the years preceding the Moscow Council (1917–18), which was supposed to come to a decision about this but did not succeed ...
Metropolitan Hilarion or Ilarion may refer to: Hilarion of Kiev , 11th century Russian churchman, became Metropolitan of Kiev Hilarion (Alfeyev) (born 1966), metropolitan of Budapest and Hungary, former chairman of the Department of External Church Relations of the Patriarchate of Moscow; theologian, church historian and composer
On October 21 of the same year, Archbishop Sergius was confirmed Exarch of Central Europe as diocesan bishop of Vienna. In 1948 he was transferred to Berlin, and Diocese of Vienna was ceased. [1] In 1951, a deanery was established in Vienna, and in 1962 it was transformed into a diocese.
In 2004, the Pentecostal bishop Carlton Pearson received notoriety when he was officially declared a heretic by the Joint College of African-American Pentecostal Bishops. Bishop Pearson, who had attended Oral Roberts University , a Charismatic Christian college, formally declared his belief in the doctrine of universal salvation.
The ordination was performed by: Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill, Metropolitan of Washington and New York Jonah (Paffhausen), Archbishop Hilarion (Alfeyev), Archbishop of Ottawa and Canada Seraphim (Storheim), Archbishop Eugene (Reshetnikov) of Vereya, Archbishop Alexy (Frolov) of Orekhovo-Zuyevo, Archbishop Theognost (Guzikov) of ...