“RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH IS TURNING INTO A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION,” SAYS UKRAINIAN THEOLOGIAN

 

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Director of the Libertas Center for Interreligious Dialogue and the Institute of Religion and Society at the Catholic University of Ukraine, theologian Taras Dzyubanskyy advises on issues involving religion for the prefecture of Lviv, one of the Ukrainian cities hit by Russian missiles. For the past three years, he has served as an advisor to the President of the Lviv Chamber of Commerce and Industry on social issues.

ΕΠΙΣΤΟΛΗ ΑΡΧΙΕΠΙΣΚΟΠΟΥ ΙΕΡΩΝΥΜΟΥ ΣΤΟΝ ΠΑΤΡΙΑΡΧΗ ΜΟΣΧΑΣ ΓΙΑ ΤΟΝ ΠΟΛΕΜΟ ΣΤΗΝ ΟΥΚΡΑΝΙΑ

 

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Επιστολή προ τον Πατριάρχη Μόσχας κ.κ. Κύριλλο απέστειλε ο Αρχιεπίσκοπος Αθηνών και πάσης Ελλάδος κ.κ. Ιερώνυμος με την  οποία εκφράζει τη θλίψη του για τον επιθετικό πόλεμο της Ρωσίας έναντι της Ουκρανίας.

EU BISHOPS’ PRESIDENT APPEALS ON MOSCOW PATRIARCH KIRILL: ''INTERCEDE WITH RUSSIA TO STOP THE WAR IN UKRAINE''

                                      

The President of the EU Bishops, Cardinal Hollerich, addressed a letter to Moscow Patriarch Kirill on Tuesday 8 March 2022 asking him to issue an urgent appeal to Russian authorities to immediately stop the hostilities against the Ukrainian people.

RESPONSE BY PATRIARCH KIRILL OF RUSSIA TO REV. PROF. DR IOAN SAUCA

World Council of Churches 

In a 10 March letter, H.H. Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and all Russia responded to a letter sent 2 March by World Council of Churches (WCC) acting general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Ioan Sauca asking Patriarch Kirill to mediate so that the war can be stopped

 

MOSCOW PATRIARCH SEEMED TO BLESS THE WAR ON UKRAINE: WHAT DOES THAT MEAN FOR ECUMENISM?

 

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John Burger - published on 03/06/22 Aleteia

It wasn’t a surprise for most people that the patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church would be practically mute about Vladimir Putin’s war of aggression against Ukraine. Patriarch Kirill, a former KGB agent, is widely seen as intimate with Kremlin officials – and subservient to the Russian president.

THE HEAD OF THE POLISH EPISCOPAL CONFERENCE WROTE A LETTER TO KIRILL: ASK PUTIN TO END THE WAR

                             

"Brother, I implore you to ask Vladimir Putin to stop the senseless fight against the Ukrainian people. Innocent people are dying, and not only soldiers are suffering, but also civilians - especially women and children."

FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE MEETING BETWEEN POPE FRANCIS AND PATRIARCH KIRILL

 

Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity

ΠΑΤΡΙΑΡΧΗΣ ΜΟΣΧΑΣ: Ο ΘΕΟΣ ΕΚΑΝΕ ΤΗΝ ΑΓΙΑ ΣΟΦΙΑ ΤΖΑΜΙ ΕΠΕΙΔΗ ΘΥΜΩΣΕ ΜΕ ΤΟΝ ΟΙΚ. ΠΑΤΡΙΑΡΧΗ …ΚΙ ΑΛΛΕΣ ΓΕΛΟΙΕΣ «ΞΑΝΘΕΣ» ΔΗΛΩΣΕΙΣ

Theodor Petrov ανεξάρτητος αρθρογράφος, ειδικός σε θέματα γεωπολιτικής, θρησκείας και γεωθρησκείας. tribune.gr

FOURTH ANNIVERSARY OF HISTORIC MEETING BETWEEN POPE FRANCIS AND PATRIARCH KIRILL

 Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity

To mark the fourth anniversary of the historic meeting in Havana between Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill, the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity and the Department for External Church Affairs of the Moscow Patriarchate have jointly organized a conference and concert on Wednesday 12 February 2020 in Rome.

ΧΡΙΣΤΟΥΓΕΝΝΙΑΤΙΚΟ ΜΗΝΥΜΑ ΤΟΥ ΜΑΚΑΡΙΩΤΆΤΟΥ ΠΑΤΡΙΑΡΧΗ ΡΩΣΙΑΣ ΠΡΟΣ ΤΟΥΣ ΟΡΘΟΔΟΞΟΥΣ ΠΡΟΚΑΘΗΜΕΝΟΥΣ ΠΟΥ ΔΕΝ ΑΝΑΓΝΩΡΙΣΑΝ ΑΚΟΜΑ ΤΟ ΑΥΤΟΚΕΦΑΛΟ (Eng)

Patriarch Kirill greets Primates of Local Orthodox Churches with the Nativity of Christ (except Constantinople, Alexandria, and Greece)
ΧΡΙΣΤΟΥΓΕΝΝΙΑΤΙΚΟ ΜΗΝΥΜΑ ΤΟΥ ΜΑΚΑΡΙΩΤΆΤΟΥ ΠΑΤΡΙΑΡΧΗ ΡΩΣΙΑΣ ΠΡΟΣ ΤΟΥΣ ΟΡΘΟΔΟΞΟΥΣ ΠΡΟΚΑΘΗΜΕΝΟΥΣ ΠΟΥ ΔΕΝ ΑΝΑΓΝΩΡΙΣΑΝ ΑΚΟΜΑ ΤΟ ΑΥΤΟΚΕΦΑΛΟ (Eng)

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The Russian Orthodox Church. Department for External Church Relations 

His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia sent Christmas greetings to His Beatitude Patriarch John X of Antioch, His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem, His Holiness and Beatitude Catholicos-Patriarch Ilya II of Georgia, His Holiness Patriarch Irinej of Serbia, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel of Romania, His Holiness Patriarch Neofit of Bulgaria, His Beatitude Archbishop Chrysostomos II of Cyprus, His Beatitude Archbishop Anastasios of Tirana and All Albania, His Beatitude Metropolitan Sawa of Warsaw and All Poland, His Beatitude Metropolitan Rastislav of the Czech Lands and Slovakia, and His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon of All America and Canada. The message reads as follows:

ΑΥΤΟΠΑΓΙΔΕΥΤΗΚΑΝ ΟΙ ΠΟΛΥΜΗΧΑΝΟΙ

Εθνικός Κήρυξ

Του Θεόδωρου Καλμούκου

Ιδιαίτερα ενδιαφέρουσα έκπληξη ήταν η συνάντηση του Αρχιεπισκόπου Αμερικής Ελπιδοφόρου, με τον πολυμήχανο Μητροπολίτη Βολοκολάμσκ Ιλαρίωνα εκ Ρωσίας, «υπουργό» εξωτερικών του Πατριαρχείου της Μόσχας, με τη διαμεσολάβηση του Αντιοχειανού Μητροπολίτη Ιωσήφ. 

PATRIARCH KIRILL DISCUSSED SITUATION IN SYRIA OVER TELEPHONE WITH POPE FRANCIS OF ROME AND PRIMATES OF LOCAL ORTHODOX CHURCHES

 

The Russian Orthodox Church. Department for External Church Relations 

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SPEECH BY PATRIARCH KIRILL AT THE MEETING OF THE PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA VLADIMIR VLADIMIROVICH PUTIN WITH THE PARTICIPANTS OF THE EPISCOPAL COUNCIL OF THE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH

 The Russian Orthodox Church. Department for External Church Relations

On the 1^st of December 2017 the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin spoke before the participants of the Episcopal Council of the Russian Orthodox Church. This is what His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia said in his reply to the head of state.

PATRIARCH KIRILL: “THE MEETING ON CUBA WAS AN IMPORTANT STEP ON THE WAY TO RESOLVING THE MORE RELEVANT ISSUES OF THE MODERN-DAY WORLD BY THE JOINT EFFORTS OF THE TWO LARGEST CHURCHES OF THE CHRISTIAN WORLD”

 The Russian Orthodox Church. Department for External Church Relations

Recent years have been marked by a development in the cooperation between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church in the sphere of social problems, noted His Holiness Patriarch Kirill in his presentation at the Episcopal Council taking place in Moscow.

ΣΥΝΟΜΙΛΙΕΣ ΜΕΤΑΞΥ ΤΩΝ ΠΡΟΚΑΘΗΜΕΝΩΝ ΤΩΝ ΟΡΘΟΔΟΞΩΝ ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΩΝ ΡΩΣΙΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΡΟΥΜΑΝΙΑΣ

 

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  ΡΩΣΙΚΗ ΟΡΘΟΔΟΞΗ ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ. Τμήμα Εξωτερικών Εκκλησιαστικών Σχέσεων

KIRILL’S ENCYCLICAL ON THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE PATRIARCHATE. JOIN CHRISTIANS IN RUSSIA AND THE WORLD

Vladimir Rozanskij, asianews

Two centuries after its suppression by Peter the Great, the Patriarchate was restored in 1917. The resumption of Church reform. Social media for reading the Bible. Overcome divisions, even with Catholics. Former Ambassador to the Holy See: Ensuring a Living Space for Christians.

PATRIARCH KIRILL SENDS CHRISTMAS GREETINGS TO HEADS OF NON-ORTHODOX CHURCHES

The Russian Orthodox Church. Department for External Church Relations

His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia has sent Christmas greetings to heads of non-Orthodox Churches. Among the addressees are Pope Francis of Rome, the head of the Anglican Communion Archbishop Justin Welby of Canterbury, the president of the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany Bishop Heinrich Bedford-Strohm and others.

RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH SYNOD REJECTS PAN-ORTHODOX STATUS OF CRETE COUNCIL

Moscow, July 15, Interfax - The Council which took place in Crete on June 20-25 cannot be regarded as pan-Orthodox, the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church said in Moscow on Friday.

THERE WAS NO INTENTION OF BOYCOTTING THE COUNCIL ON CRETE

Press Secretary of Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, Fr. Alexander Volkov spoke in an interview with RIA-Novosti about the circumstances surrounding the preparations for the Council of the Orthodox Churches on Crete, and offered his evaluation of the situation that has grown up around the summit of Orthodox representatives.

ΜΗΝΥΜΑ ΠΑΤΡΙΑΡΧΟΥ ΜΟΣΧΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΠΑΣΩΝ ΤΩΝ ΡΩΣΣΙΩΝ ΚΥΡΙΛΛΟΥ ΠΡΟΣ ΤΟΥΣ ΠΡΟΚΑΘΗΜΕΝΟΥΣ ΚΑΙ ΑΝΤΙΠΡΟΣΩΠΟΥΣ ΤΩΝ ΚΑΤΑ ΤΟΠΟΥΣ ΟΡΘΟΔΟΞΩΝ ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΩΝ ΤΟΥΣ ΣΥΝΕΛΘΟΝΤΑΣ ΣΤΗ ΝΗΣΟ ΚΡΗΤΗ

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Πρὸς τὸν Παναγιώτατον Ἀρχιεπίσκοπον Κωνσταντινουπόλεως Νέας Ρώμης καὶ Οἰκουμενικὸν Πατριάρχην κ.κ. Βαρθολομαῖον,

Πρὸς τοὺς Ἁγιωτάτους καὶ Μακαριωτάτους Προκαθημένους τῶν Ἁγίων τοῦ Θεοῦ Ἐκκλησιῶν,

Πρὸς τοὺς Ἀρχιερεῖς, Ἱερεῖς, Μονάζοντας καὶ Λαϊκοὺς, τοὺς συνελθόντας ἐν τῇ νήσῳ Κρήτῃ