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21 September 2018, 08:45 | Andrew Sorokowski's column |
Filaret in Washington: Prepared for Putin’s Provocations
If the Ecumenical Patriarchate recognizes the UOC-KP as a canonical Church …. the struggle between Moscow and Constantinople for primacy in the Orthodox world will end, and the church of Moscow will revert to its proper status as a daughter of the church of Kyiv.
19 September 2018, 12:54 | Interview |
| The dialogue regarding the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople granting autocephaly to the Ukrainian Church and the appointment of its exarchs to Ukraine for this purpose, has resulted in opposition from the Moscow Patriarchate and their break in concelebrating with the hierarchs of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, has recently been one of the main topics of conversation that do no cease in Ukrainian society and Media.
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25 September 2018, 14:21 | Religious studies |
The first local ecclesiastical community, formed immediately after the Baptism of Vladimir and Kyivans in 988, was organized as a metropolis under the direct authority of the Ecumenical Patriarch, possessing, according to the Taktikon of Alexios I Komnenos (1081-1118), the 60th place among the Dioceses of the Church of Constantinople and bearing the title "Metropolis of Kyiv and all Russia."
7 July 2016, 13:11 | Religious studies |
Ukrainain Orthodoxy on the eve of Pan-Orthodox Council. Part III
The history evidences: the Local Churches that were historically associated with earthly empires were uninterested in the canonical establishment of local churches under their jurisdictions, and therefore usually granted autocephaly to churches only under the pressure of historic circumstances. No exception is the Moscow Patriarchate, which has incorporated the Orthodox Church in Ukraine since 1686.
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Pope to metropolitan Alfeyev: Catholic churches shouldn't meddle in your affairs
The pope has held an important meeting with a delegation of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Moscow led by Hilarion of Volokolamsk, the chairman of External Church Relations, Rome Report informs.
He asked Catholics not to intervene in internal matters of the Russian Orthodox Church.
"The Catholic Church, the Catholic Churches, should not interfere in internal affairs of the Russian Orthodox Church, not even in political matters. This is my position and the position of the Holy See today. Those who meddle, do not obey the Holy See."
"In front of you I want to confirm, most of all in front of you, dear brother, and before you all, that the Catholic Church will never allow an attitude of division to be born on its own. We will never allow it. I do not want it. In Moscow, in Russia, there is only one Patriarchate, yours. We will not have another."
Pope Francis has invited all Christian patriarchs to pray together for peace on July 7 in Bari. It is not yet known if Kirill, the patriarch of Moscow, will also participate.
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- | 25 September 2018, 17:06
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- | 25 September 2018, 14:28
В 1961 г., в момент её закрытия коммуно-совдеповской властью, наместником Киево-Печерской лавры был епископ Нестор (в миру - Никита Арсентьевич Тугай (1900-1969)). И в тот период будущего митрополита
- | 24 September 2018, 21:26
Мир и порядок в Украине это Поместная Православная Украинская Церковь, освобождение территорий страны от оккупантов, диверсантов и сепаратистов, единство народа в труде, учёбе и отдыхе.
- | 24 September 2018, 18:59
С таким самомнением и претензионностью на мировую власть он скоро начнёт предоставлять "автокефалии" на свой вкус и каприз Католической, Англиканской и церквям подряд. Можно только
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Several years ago, the Orthodox Patriarchs of Constantinople, Antioch, Alexandria and Jerusalem met as a group and issued a joint declaration that Ukraine is NOT part of the canonical territory of the Russian Orthodox Church. That's the final word on this matter.
Is this God's justice when high officials from the Russian Orthodox Church come to the Vatican (enemy no. 1) and beseech Pope Francis to stop "meddling" in "their affairs"? But what is this "meddling"? Ecumenism between the UGCC and the UOC(KP) and the UAOC? The critical erosion of the ROC in Ukraine (AKA the UOC MP)? How pathetic that the ROC officials cannot understand that they are masters of their own destiny. After all, are they not the people who have given their full support to Putin's chauvinist and imperialist ambitions in Ukraine? And now they are appalled that Ukrainian parishioners are turning their backs to them? Meddling indeed!
Yet the Russian Orthodox Church repeatedly meddles in the affars of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.
Agree. Somehow is a way to say to moscow: I will not meddle in your affairs but also you also don´t meddle in OURS. Anyway, I get a feeling that Pope Francis is quite naive in his approach to moscow and somehow is afraid to make them upset. He is giving way too much in return of nothing. Nonetheless, reading the original speech in italian, he clearly refers to russia. In a way, making clear Ukraine is a distinct and totally separate issue
Indeed, no religious denomination should interfere in each other affairs. The Orthodox Church of Constaninople and its associated Patriarchates have to make their decision regarding Ukrainian Autocephaly internally without outside pressures and no comments in that direction by anyone is acceptable.