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?
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Colloguium of the European Parishes in Lviv
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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 |
Miracles
21 November 2018, 13:14 | Miracles |
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| Naples miracle: St Januarius' blood melts in Patriarch Sviatoslav’s hands
On Sunday, November 18, the Ukrainian community in Italy marked the 85th anniversary of the Holodomor. On this occasion, Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Archbishop of Naples, displayed for veneration the most important relic of his eparchy - a vial with the blood of a saint, Martyr Januarius. At the final moment of laying the relics into the repository, the blood clot of Saint Januarius dissolved in the hands of Patriarch Sviatoslav, according to the Department of Information of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.
29 February 2012, 10:17 | Miracles |
| Monks Are Anxious As Icon Begins to Shed Holy Ointment in Maniavskyi Monastery
The monks are anxious because the last time the icon shed the holy ointment four years ago, exactly before the great flood which affected the whole of western Ukraine.
13 January 2012, 09:13 | Miracles |
Church Fresco Sheds Holy Ointment in Cherkasy Region
A fresco depicting St. Serhii of Radonezh in the Church of the Holy Intercession of the town of Smila of Cherkasy Region suddenly began to shed holy ointment.
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