Hilarion Alfeyev

Hilarion (secular name Grigory Valerievich Alfeyev, ; 24 July 1966) is a bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church; currently he is the retired metropolitan of Budapest and Hungary. He is also a theologian, church historian and composer and has published books on dogmatic theology, patristics and church history as well as numerous compositions for choir and orchestra. From 2009 to 2022, he was the titular Metropolitan of Volokolamsk and the Chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate. He was an ''ex officio'' permanent member of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church, and also served as rector of the church-wide postgraduate and doctoral studies named after Saints Cyril and Methodius.

In June 2022, following a meeting of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church, Hilarion was removed from his position as president of the Department of External Church Relations of the Patriarchate of Moscow and dismissed as Metropolitan of Volokolamsk. He was appointed to the Metropolis of Budapest and Hungary, then suspended from all positions in July 2024, and officially dismissed on December 27, 2024. Provided by Wikipedia