KYIV-MOSCOW. Chair of the Synodal Information Department of the UOC participated in the work of the Collegium of the Synodal Information Department of the Russian Orthodox Church

At the invitation of the Chair of the Synodal Information Department of the Russian Orthodox Church Volodymyr Legoyda and on the blessing of the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, the Chair of the Synodal Information Department archpriest George Kovalenko took part in the work of the Collegium of the Synodal Information Department of the Russian Orthodox Church.  

The members of the Collegium and the guests invited exchanged ideas regarding the main strategic directions of the informational development of the Russian Orthodox Church.  

The representative of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church noted that it was also due to the joint active work of the Moscow Patriarchy and the Kyiv Metropolis with secular mass-media that the visit of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill to Ukraine was positively received by the Ukrainian society.   At the same time archpriest George pointed out the necessity of constant informational support of the initiatives of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and its hierarchy, and also brought to the notice of those present that in its information policy the Russian Orthodox Church should always regard that the Moscow Patriarchate is larger than the Russian Federation. 

Discussing the strategy of informational development of the Russian Orthodox Church, the Press-Secretary for the Primate of the UOC also noted that the church mass-media were to be the instrument of conciliarity and an active means of church communication. 

Taking part in the session of the Collegiumof the Synodal Department for Information of the ROC, presided over by the chairman of the Department Vladimir Legoyda, were also chairman of the press-service of the Patriarch Vladimir Vigilansky, deputy chairman of the Press-service of the Patriarch deacon Alexander Volkov, chief director of the TV-Channel Soyuz hegumen Dmitry Baibakov,  head of the Journalism Department  of the Russian Pedagogical Institute of John the Theologian hieromonk Dimitry (Pershin), head of the communication service of the Department for External Church Relations of the ROC Fr. George Zavershinsky, director general of the TV-Channel "Spas" Boris Kostenko, Editor in Chief of the internet-portal "Orthodoxy and the World" Anna Danilova, executive editor of "Journal of the Moscow Patriarchy" and "Moscow Church Bulletin" (Moskovskyi Tserkovnyi Vestnik) Sergey Chapnin, chairman of the Orthodox Jouranlists' Club  and dchief director of the internet-portal "Religion and Media" Alexander Shchipkov.