His Excellency [[Image:HilarionVienna.JPG|right|frame|Bishop Hilarion speaks to the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches]]Bishop '''Hilarion (Alfeyev), Bishop of Vienna and Austria''', is a hierarch of the [[Moscow Patriarchate]], [[theologian]], church historian, and composer. He is also the author of several volumes on dogmatic [[theology]], [[patristics]] and church history, numerous articles in various languages, and musical compositions.

In January 1987 he entered the [[Monastery]] of the Holy Spirit in ViliniusVilnius, Lithuania, where he was [[tonsure]]d as a [[monk]] on [[June 19]], [[ordination|ordained]] a [[deacon]] on [[June 21]] and ordained a [[presbyter|priest]] on [[August 19]] of the same year. Until 1991 he served as a [[parish]] [[priest]] in Lithuania, including two years as dean of Annunciation [[Cathedral]] in Kaunas.