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[[Image:HilarionVienna.JPG|right|thumb|200px|Bishop Hilarion speaks to the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches]]
His Eminence, the Most Reverend Metropolitan '''Hilarion (Alfeyev) of Volokolamsk''', is a hierarch of the [[Moscow Patriarchate]], [[theologian]], church historian, composer, TV and television presenter. He is also the author of several volumes on dogmatic [[theology]], [[patristics]] and church history, numerous articles in various languages, and musical compositions.
==Biography==
In 1989 he graduated by correspondence from the [[Moscow Theological Academy and Seminary|Moscow Theological Seminary]] and in 1991 from the [[Moscow Theological Academy and Seminary|Moscow Theological Academy]], with the degree of Master of Theology.
From 1991 to 1993 he taught Homiletics, Dogmatic Theology, [[New Testament]] Studies and Byzantine Greek at the Moscow Theological Academy, [[St. Tikhon's Orthodox Theological Seminary Institute (South CanaanMoscow, PennsylvaniaRussia)]], and St . John the Theologian's Orthodox University.
From 1993 to 1995 he studied at [[Oxford University]] (UK) under the supervision of [[Bishop]] [[Kallistos (Ware) of Diokleia|Kallistos Ware]]. In 1995 he completed his doctoral thesis on ''St [[Symeon the New Theologian]] and Orthodox Tradition'' and was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
From 1995 to 2001 Hilarion Alfeyev served as Secretary for Inter-Christian Affairs of the Department for External Church Relations of the [[Moscow Patriarchate]]. He also taught part-time at Smolensk and Kaluga Theological Seminaries (Russia), at [[St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary (Crestwood, New York)|St Vladimir's]] and [[St. Herman's Orthodox Theological Seminary (Kodiak, Alaska)|St Herman's]] Theological Seminaries (USA) and at Cambridge University (UK).
On [[March 31]], 2009 he was appointed the Bishop of Volokolamsk, the [[Vicar]] to the Patriarch of Moscow, the chairman of the Department of the External Church Relations (the position previously held by Patr. Kirill himself), and a permanent member of the [[Holy Synod]] ex officio.
On Pascha Monday, 2009, he was raised in to the rank to an of [[archbishop]] by Patr. Patriarch Kirill during the [[Divine Liturgy]] in [[Dormition Cathedral (Moscow Kremlin)|Dormition Cathedral]] of the Moscow Kremlin.
In November 2009, Abp. Hilarion was named to the Board of Trustees of [[St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary (Crestwood, New York)|St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary]] in Crestwood, New York.
On February 1, 2010 , he was elevated to Metropolitan the rank of metropolitan by Patriarch Patr. Kirill.
==Bibliography==