Hilarion (Alfeyev)

Hilarion Alfeyev fascinates me because he refuses to pick one calling. He is a bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church, a serious scholar who writes on dogmatic theology and patristics, and a composer who scores for choir and orchestra, all with the same pair of hands. The retired metropolitan of Budapest and Hungary, educated at Pembroke College, he treats faith and music as a single language. I am consistently pulled toward people who live at the intersection of the contemplative and the creative, and holding theologian, prelate, and musician at once is rare. He earns my quiet respect.

Name (English)

Hilarion (Alfeyev)

Name (Japanese)

イラリオン・アルフェエフ

Reading

いらりおん・あるふぇえふ

Born

July 24, 1966 (age 60)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Horse

Origin

Moscow, Moscow Governorate, Duchy of Moscow

Occupation

composer / theologian / bishop / university teacher / director

University

Pembroke College

Awards & achievements

• 2011 Order of Friendship
• Order of Merit (Ukraine), 3rd class
• 2016 Order of Honour
• Commander with Star of the Order of Merit of Hungary
• January 13th commemorative medal
• Order of Alexius
• 2017 Honorary Academician of VRAL
• Honorary Academician of VRAL

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttps://www.hilarion.ru/
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A4%E3%83%A9%E3%83%AA%E3%82%AA%E3%83%B3%20(%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A7%E3%82%A8%E3%83%95)

Tags

• Moscow Governorate
• composer
• theologian
• bishop

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.