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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
In 2008, the Russian Orthodox scholar-bishop Hilarion Alfeyev of Volokolamsk, in his presentation at the First World Apostolic Congress of Divine Mercy (held in Rome in 2008), argued that God's mercy is so great that He does not condemn sinners to everlasting punishment.
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 ...
A number of ROCOR clergy and parishioners who opposed to reunification with the Moscow Patriarchate, including the suspended Bishop Varnava (Prokofieff) of Cannes, formed a new church administration around Metropolitan Vitaly, renaming themselves as the Russian Orthodox Church in Exile (ROCiE) then to "Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia ...