OCP News Service - 4/8/21 Ukraine: Fr. Nicolae Lauruc has officially assumed the charge as the Vicar-head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Vicariate of the Romanian Patriarchate, reports Basilica News Agency. Fr. Laurus served his first Liturgy in his new office at the Orthodox Church in Ruscova, Maramures County, Romania. The Ukrainian Orthodox Vicariate is an autonomous administrative ...
Nadia Bazuk – (Editor of Russian and Ukrainian Orthodox Affairs) – OCP Articles – OCP News Service – 22/4/21 "Hierarch" of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) accused of large-scale fraud. The reps of Ternopil eparchy of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC) published materials from the criminal case against the Archbishop of the OCU Tikhon Petranyuk, the administrator of ...
OCP News Service - 3/4/21 Warsaw-Poland: The Parish of the Dormition of the Mother of God in Dubiny, of the Polish Orthodox Church donated several items to help children and needy families in Ukraine. Items like clothes, toys and school supplies were provided for a dozen families who are currently under the care of the Pochaev ...
Nadia Bazuk – (Editor of Russian and Ukrainian Orthodox Affairs) – OCP Articles – OCP News Service - 15/2/21 A Metropolitan’s private correspondence leaked. The ongoing infighting in the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) led to a leak of the private correspondence of Metropolitan Olexandr Drabinko – an "autocephalist" Bishop, originally under the omophorion of Metropolitan of ...
UOJ - Konstantin Shemliuk - 4/7/2020 Recently, several eparchies of the UAOC have moved to the UGCC. Is this a coincidence or inevitability for all Ukrainian schismatics? On June 14, 2020, at a general meeting of the Kharkov St. Dmitry’s parish of the Kharkiv-Poltava Diocese of the UAOC (o), parishioners of this community almost unanimously voted for the transfer ...
Church of Serbia - 1/3/2020 His Beatitude Onuphrius, Metropolitan of Kyiv and all Ukraine, arrived at the capital city of Montenegro, Podgorica, on 27 February 2020, starting thereby his friendly visit to the Serbian Church in Montenegro and its Metropolitanatae of Montenegro-Littoral. The high church dignitary, His Beatitude Onuphrius was welcome in front of the Podgorica Cathedral ...
Taras Rebikov - UOJ - 11/2/2020 In Ivano-Frankivsk, a bishop of the UGCC performed a funeral service for an SS Division "Galicia" veteran in the presence of people in Nazi uniform. Causes & effects. On January 28, 2020, in Ivano-Frankivsk, a solemn funeral service was held for the SS Division “Galicia” veteran and OUN activist Mikhail Mulik. ...
UOJ I Union of Orthodox Journalists - 4/12/2019 With the emergence of the OCU (orthodox Church in Ukraine created by the Ecumenical Patriarchate), communication of Phanariots and schismatics with the Uniates (Ukranian Greek Catholic Church -UGCC) and Roman Catholics has increased dramatically. Source:
Orthodox Church - 1/12/2019 His High-Eminence Orthodox Metropolitan of Montenegro and Litoral Amphilochius and His High-Eminence Orthodox Metropolitan of Borispole Antony have concelebrated Divine Liturgy in the Cetinje's Monastery in Montenegro and confirmed the support of the Serbian Orthodox Church for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate. Source:
Nadia Bazuk- Editor – Russian and Ukranian Orthodox Affairs) - OCP News Service - 08/10/2019 English translation of the article about the alleged canonicity of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine and its hierarchs. It was originally published by radonezh.ru. On August 25 this year, Director Dmitry Gorevoy of the Ukrainian website Cerkvarium stated (after last year's visit of Patriarch ...
Nadia Bazuk- Editor – Russian and Ukranian Orthodox Affairs) - OCP News Service - 7/10/2019 The hierarchs of the Church of Greece will gather at the Synod from October 7-11. They will elect three Metropolitans and two Vicar Bishops, as well as discuss important issues. In particular, since the Archbishop of Athens and All Greece Ieronymos ...
Orthodox Church - 4/10/19 His Beatitude Onuphry - Orthodox Metropolitan of Kyiv and all Ukraine welcomed by the Faithful in Odesa, Ukraine. Source:
Translated by Nadia Bazuk (Editor – Russian and Ukranian Orthodox Affairs)- OCP News Service - 31.8.19 This article was first published in Politeka.net In spring, Ukraine witnessed an event that will be written down in the country’s history –Volodymyr Zelensky won the presidential elections. A showman who had never been involved in politics before, Zelensky’s victory is ...
Nadia Bazuk - (Editor - Russian and Ukranian Orthodox Affairs) - OCP News Service - 18/7/19 Will the Schism in Orthodox Church of Ukraine Push the Country to Greek Catholics? The modern history of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC), the successor of the Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church formed by the Union of Brest of 1596, begins ...
Jelena Rakocevic - Specialist in Eastern Orthodox Affairs - OCP News Service- 23/6/19 The Phanar masterminded the conflict in the newly-established Autocephalous Church of Ukraine. The US Department of State and the incumbent Government of Greece have pressured the Greek Church to 'speed up' the recognition of the new Metropolitan of Kyiv. Greek analyst Michalis Papadopoulos states that an ...
Nadia Bazuk - Contributor - OCP News Service - 9/5/19 In March 2019, the Russian Orthodox site Radonezh published an article by Archpriest Andrei Novikov (also available in Greek). The clergyman commented on the letter of four Athonite monasteries – the Great Lavra, Iveron, Koutloumousiou, and New Esphigmenou, dated late February 2019. The four representatives of the monasteries, ...
Church of Serbia - 18/3/19 The Position of the Serbian Orthodox Church on the Church Crisis in Ukraine Last November the Serbian Orthodox Church was the first among the autocephalous churches to officially react at the highest level, (i.e. the Holy Assembly of Bishops) to the intentions of His Holiness the Patriarch of Constantinople who, according to ...
Union of Orthodox Journalists - 11/3/19 What is behind the concern of US officials about the rights of the Orthodox? At the Athens conference on disinformation and news manipulation held on March 5, the ex-US Ambassador to Ukraine and now the Ambassador to Greece Jeffrey Payette made a strong statement about Russia’s efforts to undermine the authority ...
Moscow Patriarchate - March 2019 The Press and Mass Information Bureau of the Serbian Orthodox Church spread a statement emphasizing, in particular, that the only Church known to and recognized by the Serbian Patriarchate in Ukraine is the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church led by His Beatitude Metropolitan Onufry of Kiev and All Ukraine. The document characterizes ...
OCP News Service - 4/1/19 Belgrade -Serbia- His Holiness Irinej - Archbishop of Peć, Metropolitan of Belgrade and Karlovci, and Serbian Patriarch has slammed corrupt politicians, Ukrainian Nationalists, Uniates, and Constantinople Patriarchate for causing a schism in Ukraine. The Primate of the Serbian Church made his statement during the delivery of annual Nativity message. Video Source: Source: OCP News Service
Orthochristian.com - 3/1/18 In reply to a letter of His Holiness Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, in which he informed of the “reinstatement” of the Ukrainian schismatics in their “rank,” of the “annulment” of the document which is three hundred years old and indicates the transfer of the Kievan Metropolia to the jurisdiction of the Moscow Patriarchate, ...