PUTIN HAS TRIED AND FAILED TO MANIPULATE UKRAINE'S ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS

 

  Telegraph

His goal was to alienate religious members of Ukrainian society from Zelensky’s government, which tries to keep secular neutrality

Dr Cyril Hovorun is a professor of ecclesiology at Sankt Ignatios College, Sweden

Vladimir Putin is a master of cracks. He skilfully finds them in what he believes to be his enemies’ camps and then tries to widen them as much as possible, for his political ends. It has become a common wisdom that he tried, and continues to be hopeful, to crack the unity of the West, including Nato. Sometimes it felt like he was not far from success, but then the fully fledged invasion in Ukraine in February 2022 pushed the Western allies to tighten their ties with one another. 

THE PATRIARCH BEHIND VLADIMIR PUTIN

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By  Tunku Varadarajan Dec. 29, 2022 6:25 pm ET
Vladimir Putin and Patriarch Kirill of Moscow in the Pskov oblast of Russia, Sept. 11, 2021. Photo: Alexander Demianchuk/Zuma Press

The Ukraine war is inspired and sustained by the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, says his former secretary.

 

Orthodox-Catholic Conversation on War in Ukraine: Metr. Borys Gudziak & Fr. Cyril Hovorun

THE INSTITUTIONALIZED ECUMENISM AND THE UKRAINIAN WAR: A CRITICAL APPROACH

 

By Cyril Hovorun, Professor of Ecclesiology, International Relations and Ecumenism at Professor at Stockholm School of Theology (University College Stockholm), in Religion in Praxis

Η ΡΩΣΙΚΗ ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΚΑΙ Ο ΟΥΚΡΑΝΙΚΟΣ ΠΟΛΕΜΟΣ

                         

Cyril Hovorun

Ο πόλεμος στην Ουκρανία που ξεκίνησε τον Φεβρουάριο του 2014 με την προσάρτηση της Κριμαίας και κλιμακώθηκε τον Φεβρουάριο του 2022 σε βαθμό άγνωστο στην Ευρώπη μετά τον Β’ Παγκόσμιο Πόλεμο, δεν μπορεί να κατανοηθεί επαρκώς χωρίς να ληφθεί υπόψη η θρησκευτική του διάσταση. Η διάσταση αυτή προσδιορίστηκε σωστά από τον πατριάρχη Μόσχας και πάσης Ρωσίας Κύριλλο ως «μεταφυσική». Το παρόν άρθρο διερευνά ορισμένες πτυχές της μεταφυσικής του ρωσο-ουκρανικού πολέμου. Επιχειρεί επίσης να εξηγήσει πώς και γιατί η Ρωσική Ορθόδοξη Εκκλησία συνέβαλε σε αυτόν.

Q&A: ORTHODOX ECUMENISM EXPERT CYRIL HOVORUN TALKS UKRAINE, RUSSIA AND SCHISM

The Unification Council of the Orthodox Church in Ukraine meets in 2018. Creative Commons photo

 Jovan Tripkovic March 2, 2022, Religion Unplugged

Since Russia launched a military invasion into Ukraine on Feb. 24, headlines around the world have focused on the atrocities of the war and its negative effects on international relations. However, decades-long theological conflict behind the war has been underreported.

RUSSIAN WORLD 2.0 AND PUTIN’S SPIRITUALITY

                      

 rev. Cyril Hovorun

Source: Religion in Praxis

In my publications since 2014, I have repeatedly stressed that the first wave of the Russian military aggression against Ukraine was underpinned by an ideological device known as “Russian world” (see, for example, “Interpreting the ‘Russian World,’ in Andrii Krawchuk and Thomas Bremer, eds., Churches in the Ukrainian Crisis, New York: Palgrave, 2016: 163-171). 

CYRIL HOVORUM: SOME REFLECTION FOR THE ''AYTOKEFALY'' (Oukranian) VIDEO

Presentation at the conference organized by the Volhyn' Theological Academy in Luts'k, Ukraine, on May 31, 2018

CYRILL HOVORUN ENTHNOPHYLETISM, PHYLETISM, AND THE PAN-ORTHODOX COUNCIL, THE WHELL

Cyrill Hovorun Enthnophyletism, Phyletism, and the Pan-Orthodox Council, The Whell

HOVORUN, CYRIL. META-ECCLESIOLOGY, CHRONICLES ON CHURCH AWARENESS, (NEW YORK: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN, 2015)

HOVORUN, CYRIL. META-ECCLESIOLOGY, CHRONICLES ON CHURCH AWARENESS, (NEW YORK: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN, 2015)

HOVORUN, “AUTOCEPHALY AS A DIACHRONIC PHENOMENON AND ITS UKRAINIAN CASE

Ciril Hovorun

 “Autocephaly as a Diachronic Phenomenon and Its Ukrainian Case.” In A Jubilee Collection: Essays in Honor of

CRITIQUE OF THE CHURCH THROUGH THE PRISM OF THE PANORTHODOX COUNCIL

Cyril Hovorun. “Critique of the Church Through the Prism of the Panorthodox Council.” Θεολογία 87, no. 1 (2016): 63–71.