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, ...
DECR Communication Service - 29/12/18 A deep wound has been inflicted on the canonical Orthodoxy in Ukraine and worldwide, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia wrote in the letters addressed to the Primates of the Local Orthodox Churches. The messages were sent to His Beatitude Pope and Patriarch Theodore II of Alexandria, His Beatitude Patriarch ...
OCP News Service - 16/12/18 Kiev- Ukraine: The Unification council held on 15/12/18 at the St. Sophia Cathedral (Kiev) elected Metropolitan Epiphany as the new Primate of the newly established 'Ukrainian Orthodox Church'. Epiphany (Serhiy Dumenko) is the Metropolitan of Pereiaslav and Bila Tserkvaof of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Kyiv Patriarchate. He is the rector of the Kyiv ...
Church of Serbia - 22/11/18 The two-day meeting of the Assembly of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church (November 6-7, 2018) was dedicated to three topics - the state in Kosovo and Metohija, the improvement of education in the Serbian Orthodox Church and the Church crisis in Ukraine after the recent decisions of the Patriarchate of ...
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 ...