Expert thought
2 January 2020, 15:59 | Analysis |
Ukrainian Orthodox Church 2019 – results of the year
The past year has highlighted two main areas of development. First, it is the recognition of the OCU, actual first, by virtue of concelebration of individual clergymen, and further at the level of Synodal decisions and concelebration of the Primates. Secondly, the transformation of the ROC into a mono-national church
13 September 2019, 14:53 | Open theme |
Ukrainian autocephaly. After one year
All this past year the CEMES foundation worked on a scholarly project, which examined the Ukrainian crisis from a theological, historical and canonical perspective, always in relation to the triptych: Primacy-Conciliarity-Autocephaly.
Religious Studies
22 November 2018, 14:51 | Religious studies |
In the context of recent events in the Orthodox world, disputes over the boundaries of church institutions often arise between the Patriarchate of Constantinople, Kyiv and Moscow. Ukraine accuses Russia of misappropriating the territory of the Kyiv Metropolis.
25 September 2018, 14:21 | Religious studies |
A Different Approach to the Ecclesiastical Discussion about Ukraine
The first question that arises concerning Ukraine is this: with what right and based on which holy canons, does Russia today claim the ecclesiastical and administrative dependency of the Metropolis of Kyiv?
Latest photos and video
Colloguium of the European Parishes in Lviv
photo 1/1
Monitoring
Ukrainische Autokephalie als Sorge um die Menschen | 16 January 2020, 10:01 | Society-digest |
Israeli and Ukrainian media report fake anti-Semitic ‘pogrom’ in Ukraine | 15 January 2020, 16:27 | Society-digest |
Clerics, Cossacks, and Kleptocrats: Journalist Exposes Moscow’s Fifth Column in Ukraine | 11 January 2020, 16:53 | Society-digest |
UGCC
22 January 2020, 10:50 | UGCC |
Chief rabbi of Ukraine asks Yad Vashem to recognize Andrey Sheptytsky as Righteous Among the Nations
On January 21, chief Rabbi of Ukraine Moshe Reuven Asman sent a letter to the head of the Yad Vashem Institute of Israel, requesting that on the eve of the International Holocaust memorial Day and the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp, UGCC Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky be awarded the title of "Righteous Among the Nations". Therefore, to restore historical justice with respect to this figure. The chief Rabbi announced this on his Facebook page and published a letter.
17 January 2020, 11:47 | Religion and policy |
| On the evening of January 16, in Kyiv, the students of the Ukrainian Catholic University staged a Nativity creche under the pre-trial detention center, where the suspects in the murder of Sheremet are located.
15 January 2020, 14:29 | UGCC |
Bishop Kenneth Nowakowski becomes Diocesan Bishop of the UGCC London Diocese
On January 15, Pope Francis appointed Bishop Kenneth Nowakowski, who previously led the New Westminster Diocese of Canada, as the head of the Diocese of the Holy See of the UGCC in London.
15 January 2020, 14:13 | UGCC |
New UGCC bishop to be ordained for Australia
On Wednesday, January 15, 2020, Vatican officials announced that Pope Francis had accepted the abdication of the pastoral position by Petro Stasiuk, Bishop of the UGCC Eparchy of Saints Peter and Paul of Melbourne, Australia.
14 January 2020, 10:37 | International relations |
This statement of the Israeli Institute "Yad Vashem" was reported by the the synkellos on monasticism issues the Lviv Archdiocese of the UGCC, Fr Justin Boyko, one of the initiators of the letter requesting recognition of the righteous Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky as the Righteous Among the Nations.
13 January 2020, 09:55 | Catholic world |
Ukraine is the absolute leader in the number of the youngest Catholic bishops
Among the youngest bishops of the Catholic Church, Ukrainians confidently take the leading positions.
9 January 2020, 10:14 | Religion and society |
Surrogate motherhood is an insidious way of neglecting motherhood – Patriarch of the UGCC
The scourge of surrogacy is being countered all over the world. Everyone who wants to buy a child in Europe, unfortunately, go to Ukraine today.
3 January 2020, 11:30 | Children young people and religion |
First-year student of UCU develops a device for visually impaired people
Recently, a student of the Computer Science Program, 17-year-old Dmytro Lopushansky returned from the third international competition, this time in Singapore – and for the third time with the gold medal. The boy has been granted such awards for the HelpyEyes device, on which he has been working for a year and a half.
3 January 2020, 10:49 | Religious holidays and traditions |
|
| 
26 December 2019, 12:46 | Religious holidays and traditions |
Church archpastors congratulate christians on Nativity
In the Christmas Message "Urbi et Orbi", Pope Francis draws attention to the children who are now suffering from wars and conflicts around the world. He wished that little Infant of Bethlehem became the light and hope of the American continent, the light of the Holy Land, consolation for the Syrian people for Iraq, imbued with social tensions and Yemen experienced a serious humanitarian crisis.
26 December 2019, 10:35 | UGCC |
Head of UGCC is grateful for the courage of priests and laity in occupied territories
The priests of the UGCC did not leave their believers in the occupied territories. Some of them left. The UGCC was forced to make certain changes, a certain rotation. But most of the priests remained.
26 December 2019, 08:27 | Vatican |
Patriarch Sviatoslav names three conditions for The Pope’s visit to Ukraine
There are three conditions for the visit of Pope Francis to Ukraine, said the Head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Patriarch Svyatoslav (Shevchuk) said in an interview with Radio Liberty.
24 December 2019, 10:53 | Religious holidays and traditions |
The Head of the UGCC congratulated those who celebrate Christmas on December 25
The Head of the UGCC congratulated those who celebrate Christmas on December 25
16 December 2019, 10:07 | Theology and religious education |
UCU raises a record amount at the annual charity event in Kyiv
15 December 2019, 18:17 | Ukrainians outside of Ukraine |
Administrator for Catholics of Byzantine rite in Kazakhstan and Central Asia enthroned in Karaganda
On Sunday, December 15, 2019, in Karaganda, Vasyl Hovera, the Apostolic Administrator for Catholics of Byzantine rite in Kazakhstan and Central Asia was enthroned.
14 December 2019, 16:26 | Vatican |
Head of UGCC congratulates Pope Francis on the anniversary of priesthood
On December 13, 1969, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, 33 years old, was ordained a priest. He celebrates the 50th anniversary of his priestly ministry as an Ecumenical hierarch, and his main message to the world is God's mercy to man.
13 December 2019, 12:38 | UGCC |
According to the decision of the Synod of Bishops of the UGCC, held this year in Rome, on the occasion of the Feast of the Apostle Andrew the First-Called, the UGCC established a Day of Church-wide Prayer in the Intention of the Father and Head of the UGCC and of the special situations of the UGCC.
11 December 2019, 09:51 | International relations |
Members of UGCC permanent Synod held a number of meetings at the US state Secretariat
Members of the Permanent Synod led by His Beatitude Sviatoslav, Head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, made a working visit to the state Secretariat of the United States of America on December 9, 2019, where they held meetings with several representatives of this important state institution. The press service of the Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops of the UGCC has reported about this.
10 December 2019, 17:44 | Religious ceremonies and pilgrimage |
A new bishop of the RCC in Ukraine ordinated in Zakarpattia
Today, on December 10, 2019, the Bishop's ordination of Mykola Luchko took place in Mukachevo.
8 December 2019, 20:48 | UGCC |
On December 8, His Beatitude Sviatoslav (Shevchuk) presented the highest award of the Father and head of the UGCC — the Order of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky — to the Institute of Eastern Christian studies named after Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky, which operates at the University of Toronto's St. Michael's College.
|