Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Bishop Hilarion and the ROCOR

Lots of Bishop Hilarion fans read this blog. Here's a little honey for your daily news digestion. He is a man of strong and vocal opinons as well as an accomplished musician.

Moscow, April 14, (Interfax) - Archbishop Hilarion of Sydney, Australia and New Zealand may become the next First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR).

"As far as I know our archpriests, think that he should take this position," Archbishop Mark of Berlin and Germany told a delegation of the Andrew the First Called Foundation.

He said that was a natural process and added that Archbishop Hilarion grew up in the same monastery with the late ROCOR leader, Metropolitan Laurus.

"Yet anything may happen at the council," he said.

Archbishop Hilarion is the first deputy head of the ROCOR Synod of Bishops. The new First Hierarch of the ROCOR may be elected after Easter, which is on April 27.

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