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The branch of the Moscow Theological Academy post-graduate school, which had functioned under the DECR, was transformed to the Ss Cyril and Methodius Institute of Post-Graduate and Doctoral Studies. </p> <img width="900" src="/upload/content/ru/department/history/2009/6.jpg" height="600"><br> <br> <p> The Department for External Church Relations maintains relations of the Russian Orthodox Church with Local Orthodox Churches, non-Orthodox churches and Christian associations, non-Christian religious communities, governmental, parliamentary, public organizations abroad, inter-governmental, religious and public international organizations.  </p> <img width="900" src="/upload/content/ru/department/history/2009/7.jpg" height="626"><br> <br> <p> The duties of the Department for External Church Relations are to give information to His Holiness the Patriarch and the Holy Synod about events and activities taking place outside the Russian Orthodox Church and affecting her interests, to draft church-wise documents and resolutions affecting the sphere of inter-Orthodox, inter-Christians, interreligious, international and other issues included in the terms of reference of the Department. </p> <br> </div> <div class="is-tabs-tab page-style"> <h3> 1991 </h3> </div> <div class="is-tabs-tab page-style"> <h3> 1981 </h3> <p class="state-l"> Metropolitan Filaret (Vakhromeyev) of Minsk and Byelorussia </p> <p> Metropolitan Filaret had the honour to lead the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate for a long period of the Russian Orthodox Church’s preparations for the celebration of the Millennium of the Baptism of Rus’ and at its very solemnity. His Eminence Filaret was the chairman of the Department from 1981 to 1989. </p> <img width="900" src="/upload/content/ru/department/history/1981/2.jpg" height="698"><br> <br> <p> The Department for External Church Relations led by Metropolitan Filaret made a contribution, exceptional in its volume, complexity and importance, to the process involved in the celebration of the great jubilee in June 1988. The celebration of the Millennium of the Baptism of Rus’ awakened the historical memory of the people living in the Soviet Union and became a nation-wise event as a strongest impetus for the restoration of the Russian Orthodox Church’s due pace in the life of society and for the gradual revival of the ages-old traditions of her service and witness to the people of God.   </p> <br> </div> <div class="is-tabs-tab page-style"> <h3> 1972 </h3> <p class="state-l"> Metropolitan Juvenaly (Poyarkov) of Krutitsy and Kolomna </p> <p> <img width="900" src="/upload/content/ru/department/history/1972/1.jpg" height="638"><br> </p> <p> From 1972 to 1971 the post of the chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate was occupied by Metropolitan Juvenaly (Poyarkov) of Krutitsy and Kolomna, who led the DECR’s work with commitment to the task entrusted to him, the knowledge of problems and assiduity.  </p> <br> <br> </div> <div class="is-tabs-tab page-style"> <h3> 1960 </h3> <p class="state-l"> Metropolitan Nikodim (Rotov) </p> <p> From 1960 to 1972 the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate was headed by Metropolitan Nikodim (Rotov) of Leningrad and Novgorod, who combined the richness of ideas so needed by the Church with resolution and persistence in their implementation.  </p> <p> <img width="900" src="/upload/content/ru/department/history/1960/2.jpg" height="628"><br> </p> <p> Metropolitan Nikodim had to overcome tremendous difficulties caused by secular authorities, and he did it with fidelity to principles so characteristic of him. The external, especially international work of the Church in the years of persecution had an essential importance for preventing it from becoming broader, and making it impossible or difficult for the authorities to close and destroy monasteries and churches.  </p> <img width="900" src="/upload/content/ru/department/history/1960/5.jpg" height="655"><br> <br> <p> Seeking to appoint young bishops to sees abroad, he created opportunities for their consequent transfer to the canonical territory of the Church, as a result of which the episcopate of the Russian Orthodox Church became considerably younger and increased in number.  </p> <br> </div> <div class="is-tabs-tab page-style"> <h3> 1946 </h3> <p class="state-l"> Metropolitan Nikolay (Yarushevich) </p> <p> Metropolitan Nikolay (Yarushevich) of Krutitsy and Kolomna led the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarch from 1946 to 1960.  </p> <p> </p> <p> This period defined in many ways the nature of the Russian Orthodox Church’s external relations at the present stage by deepening the traditional forms of inter-church relations and initiating a number of new areas in this sphere of church work.  </p> <img width="900" src="/upload/content/ru/department/history/1946/1.jpg" height="594"><br> <br> <p> It should be specially pointed out that in that period the peacemaking activity of the Church, her first contacts with public organizations led her gradually out of isolation and built the first bridges with the state, the world of politics, science and culture.  </p> <br> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="is-sidebar sidebar-aa"> <div class="sidebar-element" data-is="sidebar"> <div class="sb-item " data-is="sbSwiper"> <a href="/en/news/tag/patriarch/" class="link-arrow"> <h4> Patriarch </h4> <svg width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <path fill-rule="evenodd" clip-rule="evenodd" d="M16.3968 8.86657L6.55172 18.7116L5.28838 17.4483L15.1334 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