On
Sunday, July 3, 2011, at the end of Divine Liturgy at
the Synodal Cathedral of Our Lady "of the
Sign" in New York, Mr VS Balakirev, representing
Russia's National Awards Commission, gave His Eminence
Metropolitan Hilarion of Eastern America and New York,
First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside
of Russia, a prestigious award "for his
peacemaking and zeal for the triumph of
Orthodoxy." As he accepted the award, Vladyka
Hilarion expressed his gratitude for the attention to
the efforts of the episcopacy, clergy and laity of the
Russian Church Abroad, who both in the past and even
now strive for unity with its people. Following the
veneration of the cross, a brotherly trapeza was
offered.
Official site of the Russian Orthodox Church
Abroad
