OCP News Service- 5/11/18 The Ecumenical Patriarchate Enters into Communion with UOC-KP and UAOC Istanbul-Turkey: On 3rd November 2018, President Petro Poroshenko of Ukraine and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew signed the Agreement “On Cooperation and Interaction between Ukraine and the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople”. The Ecumenical Patriarchate Enters into Communion with UOC-KP and UAOC The agreement is signed as a ...
Hanna Wozniak - OCP News Service - 26/10/18 President Poroshenko's strange decision to handover St. Andrew's Church to Constantinople. On October 18, Ukrainian Parliament approved the handover of St. Andrew's Church in Kiev to the Ecumenical Patriarchate. During the second hearing, 237 deputies voted for the bill (first, 216 deputies gave their votes). The project was personally initiated by ...
OCP News Service - 15/10/18 Minsk- Belarus: A statement published by the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church stated that it is impossible for the Russian Church to continue in Eucharistic Communion with the Patriarchate of Constantinople, reports Patriarchia.ru. The Ecumenical Patriarchate Enters into Communion with UOC-KP and UAOC An important session of the Holy Synod of the ...
Liju Cherian (Cheif Editor) - OCP News Service - 13/10/18 Kiev- Ukraine: Patriarch Filaret Denysenko of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kiev Patriarchate (UOC- KP), in a press conference, stated that the formation of a United National Ukrainian Orthodox Chruch will purely on a voluntary basis, without force or violence. The Prelate said that he does not want any ...
Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople - 11/10/18 The Ecumenical Patriarchate has announced the following on the canonical situation in Ukraine: The Ecumenical Patriarchate has decided to proceed with the granting of the Tomos of Autocephaly to form a 'National Ukrainian Orthodox Church'. To reestablish (at this moment) the 'Stavropegion' of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Kiev—one of its many 'Starvorpegion' ...
Nadia Bazuk - OCP News Service - 23/5/18 The guaranty of Ukraine's autocephaly is not in the legal agreements between Kyiv and Constantinople, but in human psychology: the status of the attacker affects the fight's outcome. Nevertheless, for a judge violence remains violence, and even the winner can be convicted. On April 28, Razumkov Center published the ...
RISU - September 2017 Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church In the cathedral of the Nativity of Ternopil, 19, the UAOC clergy elected a new diocesan bishop by secret ballot. Bishop Tikhon (Petranyuk) of Odesa and Chorniomorsk was elected. Most of the participants voted for his candidacy. Bishop Tikhon (Petranyuk) will be appointed as a ruling bishop of Ternopil Diocese ...
Pravoslavie.ru - 15/6/17 A third of all clergy, two thirds of all Orthodox parishes, three quarters of all seminary students, and nearly all Orthodox monasticism belongs to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP), the only canonical Church in Ukraine, reports the Information-Education Department of the UOC-MP. The Ministry of Culture’s current report “On the ...
RISU - March 2017 Chairman of Spiritual Education Commission of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church, Bishop Victor (Bed) appealed to the state leadership with a proposal to mark the 100th anniversary of the revival of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church, Keuapc.org reports. 2017 marks 100 years since the beginning of the rise of the church-national movement for ...
George Alexander – Dept.of Church Research & Studies- OCP News Service – 15/12/16 Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE #Please note that this article contains independent personal reflections and suggestions of the author. “The unity of the Orthodox, those confessing faith in the “one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church,” is precious and we must not allow lesser differences to divide ...
RISU - August 2016 On August 3, 2016, under the chairmanship Makariy Maletych, Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, a regular meeting of the Bishops of UAOC was held on the premises of the Kyiv Patriarchate. During the meeting, the Council reviewed and discussed the following items of the agenda: On support ...
George Alexander Secretary & Spokesperson For Dept. of Church Research and Studies - Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE “By the rivers of Babylon, There we sat and wept When we remembered Zion” (Psalm 136) The Orthodox Study Bible. Types of Orthodox Churches in Ukraine: Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Moscow Patriarchate - UOC-MP Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Kievyan Patriarchate-UOC-KP ...
August 2015 - http://risu.org.ua/ Hierarchs of the Ukrainian Orthodox Cchurch -Kyiv Patriarchate, who assembledon July 27 in the session of the Holy Synod in Kyiv, officially announced the termination of the dialogue on unification with the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church. They put the entire blame for the failure of negotiations on the UAOC. This is stated in the ...
Unification Council of Ukrainian Orthodox Church (KP) & UAOC to be held in September 2015: July 2015 - http://risu.org.ua/ The UOC-KP expressed disappointment and bewilderment with the requirements put forward by the participants of the Bishops’ Council of the UAOC on unification of the two Churches. It is said in the statement of the press-center of the Kyiv Patriarchate. "Kyiv ...
June 2015 Also Read - UOC (MP) SYNOD SETS UP A COMMISSION FOR DIALOGUE WITH THE UAOC: Kiev: The issue of unification of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church –Kyiv Patriarchate and the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church into the single Local Ukrainian Orthodox Church was discussed on June 18 at a meeting of the Synod of UOC-KP. The Synod of ...
June 2015 Ukraine: Metropolitan Makariy of Lviv has been elected new Primate of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church. The Metropolitan is also the ruling bishop of Rivne, Volyn and the Tauride dioceses. 360 votes out of 499 at the Local Council of the UAOC were received by the Bishop which enabled him to be the primate. Read More here: Source:
Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church - UAOC MEMORY ETERNAL!!! On February 24, Metropolitan Mefodiy Kudriakov, head of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church died after the long illness. Metropolitan Mefodiy was born 11 March 1949, in the Ternopil region. In 1981 he become a priest and was among the clergy of the Lviv and Ternopil diocese of the Ukrainian Exarchate - ...