HOLY AND GREAT COUNCIL DOCUMENT

Draft Synodical Document

Κυριακή 30 Δεκεμβρίου 2018

CHRISTMAS MESSAGE FROM METROPOLITAN OF KΥΙV AND ALL UKRAINE EPIPHANY


CHRISTMAS MESSAGE FROM METROPOLITAN OF KΥΙV AND ALL UKRAINE EPIPHANY
ΧΡΙΣΤΟΥΓΕΝΝΙΆΤΙΚΟ ΜΗΝΥΜΑ ΤΟΥ ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΙΤΟΥ ΚΙΕΒΟΥ ΚΑΙ ΠΑΣΗΣ ΟΥΚΡΑΝΙΑΣ ΕΠΙΦΑΝΙΟΥ

ORTHODOX CONFLICT IN UKRAINE ''TRAGIC, SAYS SCHONBORN


Orthodox conflict in Ukraine ‘tragic’, says Schönborn
St Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery, Ukraine, a few days from Orthodox Christmas
Photo: Sadak SouiciLe Pictorium/Zuma Press/PA Images


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

THE CHURCH COUNCIL AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE NEW LOCAL CHURCH IN KIEV

Митрополит Киевски и на цяла Украйна Епифаний
Metropolitan of the new Orthodox Church in Ukraine and Metropolitan of Kiev Epiphanius (Domenko)

Σάββατο 29 Δεκεμβρίου 2018

NEW CHURCH IN UKRAINE SHOULD PUT ASIDE POST-SOVIET LEGACY: INTERVIEW WITH NICHOLAS DENYSENKO

By Alia Shandra

Fr. Nicholas DenysenkoOn 15 December, a Unification Council took place in Kyiv which molded a single Orthodox Church from the hitherto disparate Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate (UOC KP), Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC), and a small part of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC MP) and elected its Primate. The newly-created Orthodox Church in Ukraine is on track to receive a Tomos of autocephaly from Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew on 6 January 2019. On the one hand, the multi-generational dream of an independent Orthodox Church of many Ukrainians has come true; on the other hand, the schism between the Churches has not gone anywhere, because the UOC MP overwhelmingly ignored the Council and is hostile to the new Church. Can the historical event on 15 December be considered a victory, what goals does the new Church have before itself to gain the trust of world Orthodoxy, and what reform plan it should have are some of the questions we discussed with Fr. Nicholas Denysenko, an American theologian who has just released a book on the history of the Ukrainian Church in the 20th century.

METROPOLITAN EPIPHANIUS: PROCEDURE FOR GRANTING TOMOS TO UKRAINE WILL START ON JANUARY 5


The procedure for granting the Tomos of Autocephaly to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine will start on January 5.

Πέμπτη 27 Δεκεμβρίου 2018

CYRIL HOVORUN REVIEW OF NICKOLAS DENISSENKO: THE ORTHODOX CHURCH IN UKRAINE


The Orthodox Church in Ukraine: A Century of Separation by Nicholas E. Denysenko (review)
Cyril Hovorun
Journal of Orthodox Christian Studies
Johns Hopkins University Press
Volume 1, Number 2, 2018

GUESTS FROM KOSOVO AND METOHIJA VISIT THE DECR

Guests from Kosovo and Metohija visit the DECR


On 25 December 2018, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations (DECR) met with Bishop Teodosije of Raška-Prizren, Serbian Orthodox Church, and hieromonk Isidor (Jagodić), who have arrived as pilgrims to venerate the holy sites of the Russian Orthodox Church.

NEW CHANCES, NEW RISKS. WHERE UKRAINIAN ORTHODOXY STANDS ON THE EVE OF INDEPENDENCE

The Unification Council of the Ukrainian Orthodox Churches took place in the St. Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv on 15 December. Photo: president.gov.ua 

SPEECH OF HIS HOLINESS PATRIARCH CYRIL AT THE MEETING OF THE HIGH COUNCIL ON DECEMBER 26, 2018

Speech of His Holiness Patriarch Cyril at the meeting of the High Council on December 26, 2018

Τετάρτη 26 Δεκεμβρίου 2018

SOLEMNITY OF THE NATIVITY OF THE LORD PAPAL MASS HOMILY OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS

 
SOLEMNITY OF THE NATIVITY OF THE LORD
PAPAL MASS
HOMILY OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS
Vatican Basilica
Monday, 24 December 2018

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


His  Kirill, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, has sent Christmas greetings to heads of non-Orthodox Churches. The addressees include Patriarch Tawadros II of the Coptic Church, Pope Francis of Rome, Patriarch Mar Ignatius Aphrem II, head of the Syrian Jacobite Church; Catholicos-Patriarch Mar Gewargis II Sliwa, Assyrian Church of the East; Maronite Patriarch Beshara Boutros, Cardinal al-Rahi; Catholicos of the East, Metropolitan of Malankara Basilios Mar Thoma Poulos; Patriarch Abune MathiasI of Ethiopia.

PASTORAL LETTER OF THE HOLY SYNOD OF THE BULGARIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH ON THE NATIVITY OF THE LORD 2018



Please find below the pastoral letter sent by the members of the Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church on the Feast of the Nativity of the Lord 2018.

Κυριακή 23 Δεκεμβρίου 2018

ΤΟ ΧΡΙΣΤΟΥΓΕΝΝΙΑΤΙΚΟ ΜΗΝΥΜΑ ΤΟΥ ΑΡΧΙΕΠΙΣΚΟΠΟΥ ΑΘΗΝΩΝ ΚΑΙ ΠΑΣΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ ΙΕΡΩΝΥΜΟΥ

 Το Χριστουγεννιάτικο Μήνυμα του  Αρχιεπισκόπου Αθηνών και Πάσης Ελλάδος κ. Ιερωνύμου

PASTORALA DE CRACIUN 2018: INGERII ?I PASTORII VESTESC BUCURIA NATERII DOMNULUI

Pastorala de Crăciun 2018 a Preafericitului Părinte Patriarh Daniel este intitulată „Îngerii și păstorii vestesc bucuria Nașterii Domnului”.

ΧΡΙΣΤΟΥΓΕΝΝΙΑΤΙΚΟ ΜΗΝΥΜΑ ΤΟΥ ΠΑΤΡΙΑΡΧΟΥ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΕΙΑΣ

Θ Ε Ο Δ Ω Ρ Ο Σ   Β’
ΕΛΕΩι  ΘΕΟΥ  ΠΑΠΑΣ  ΚΑΙ  ΠΑΤΡΙΑΡΧΗΣ 
ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΕΙΑΣ, ΠΑΣΗΣ ΓΗΣ ΑΙΓΥΠΤΟΥ ΚΑΙ  ΠΑΣΗΣ  ΑΦΡΙΚΗΣ 
ΠΑΝΤΙ  Τῼ  ΠΛΗΡΩΜΑΤΙ ΤΟΥ ΑΠΟΣΤΟΛΙΚΟΥ  ΚΑΙ  ΠΑΤΡΙΑΡΧΙΚΟΥ  ΘΡΟΝΟΥ  ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΕΙΑΣ
ΧΑΡΙΣ  ΚΑΙ  ΕΛΕΟΣ  ΚΑΙ  ΕΙΡΗΝΗ  ΠΑΡΑ ΤΟΥ  ΕΝ  ΒΗΘΛΕΕΜ  ΓΕΝΝΗΘΕΝΤΟΣ 
ΚΥΡΙΟΥ ΚΑΙ  ΘΕΟΥ  ΚΑΙ  ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ  ΗΜΩΝ ΙΗΣΟΥ  ΧΡΙΣΤΟΥ

ΠΑΤΡΙΑΡΧΙΚΗ ΑΠΟΔΕΙΞΙΣ ΕΠΙ ΤΟΙΣ ΧΡΙΣΤΟΥΓΕΝΝΟΙΣ 2018

 Greek-English-українська
ΠΑΤΡΙΑΡΧΙΚΗ ΑΠΟΔΕΙΞΙΣ
ΕΠΙ ΤΟΙΣ ΧΡΙΣΤΟΥΓΕΝΝΟΙΣ 2018
† ΒΑΡΘΟΛΟΜΑΙΟΣ
ΕΛΕῼ ΘΕΟΥ ΑΡΧΙΕΠΙΣΚΟΠΟΣ ΚΩΝΣΤΑΝΤΙΝΟΥΠΟΛΕΩΣ,
ΝΕΑΣ ΡΩΜΗΣ ΚΑΙ ΟΙΚΟΥΜΕΝΙΚΟΣ ΠΑΤΡΙΑΡΧΗΣ
ΠΑΝΤΙ Τῼ ΠΛΗΡΩΜΑΤΙ ΤΗΣ ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑΣ
ΧΑΡΙΝ, ΕΛΕΟΣ ΚΑΙ ΕΙΡΗΝΗΝ
ΠΑΡΑ ΤΟΥ ΕΝ ΒΗΘΛΕΕΜ ΓΕΝΝΗΘΕΝΤΟΣ ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ ΧΡΙΣΤΟΥ

THE ECUMENICAL CHRISTMAS LETTER FROM THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, JUSTIN WELBY

The Archbishop of Canterbury’s ecumenical Christmas letter to churches around the world

Σάββατο 22 Δεκεμβρίου 2018

VIDEO: IN AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH RADIO SVOBODA, EMERITUS PATRIARCH FILARET SAID THAT HIS GOAL WAS NOT TO EXALT HIMSELF, BUT TO CREATE THE ONLY ORTHODOX CHURCH IN UKRAINE


In an exclusive interview with Radіo Svoboda, Emeritus Patriarch Filaret said that his goal was not to exalt himself, but to create the only Orthodox church in Ukraine

METROPOLITAN ANTONII (MAKHOTA): JOIN THE CREATION OF THE LOCAL ORTHODOX CHURCH IN UKRAINE

OPEN LETTER OF APPEAL BY METROPOLITAN ANTONII (MAKHOTA) THE ORTHODOX CHURCH OF UKRAINE TO THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ROC IN UKRAINE IN KHMELNITSKY OBLAST

KOCH: IL PUNTO SULL: ECUMENISMO


Che cosa significano per l’ecumenismo le recenti tensioni in seno all’ortodossia? Il dialogo tra il Vaticano e Mosca si è di nuovo raffreddato? Che influsso hanno lasciato la celebrazione dell’anniversario della Riforma nel 2017 e l’“evento-Lund”? E quali nuovi progetti sono in vista? Sono domande a cui il Presidente del Pontificio Consiglio per la promozione dell’unità, card. Kurt Koch, ha risposto in un’intervista a katholisch.de, pubblicata il 12 dicembre.

OLD WINE IN NEW BOTTLES: HOW BAD HABITS DERAILED UKRAINIAN CHURCH UNIFICATION – INTERVIEW WITH CYRIL HOVORUN



 Priests stand near the St. Sophia Cathedral in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, awaiting the start of the Unification Council. Photo: president.gov.ua

Παρασκευή 21 Δεκεμβρίου 2018

KOSTANTIN SIGOV: WE WANT UKRAINIAN AUTOCEPHALY AND END TO RUSSIAN EXPLOITATION OF RELIGION FOR POLITICAL PURPOSES


 by Caterina Zakharova
The great Ukrainian intellectual explains the reasons that push his people to demand independence from the patriarchate of Moscow. In Russia, state pressures and the exploitation of the Church are the order of the day. An independent Church would be a very important step towards the liberation of Ukraine from its Soviet past. But the problem is above all a spiritual one.

A NEW ORTHODOX CHURCH OF UKRAINE: FAQ


 St. Michael’s Monastery in Kyiv
  Nicholas Denysenko
On December 15, a unification council was held at St. Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv, Ukraine. Three Orthodox Churches existed in Ukraine until then: the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC), the Kyivan Patriarchate (KP), and the Moscow Patriarchate (MP).

Πέμπτη 20 Δεκεμβρίου 2018

HIS BEATITUDE SVIATOSLAV CONGRATULATED HIS BEATITUDE EPIPHANIJ

At this significant moment, I extend my hand on behalf of our Church to you and all the Orthodox brethren, offering you to begin our path to unity, to the truth. Because the future of the Church, our people and the Ukrainian independent European state depends on how we today will cherish unity and overcome what separates us. God is the one who unites us ...

ΤΟ ΑΛΗΘΙΝΌ ΠΡΟΣΩΠΟ ΤΟΥ ΝΕΟΥ ΠΡΟΚAΘΗΜΕΝΟΥ ΤΗΣ ΟΥΚΡΑΝΙΑΣ


His Beatitude Metropolitan of Kyiv and all Ukraine Epiphany, with children at the feast of St. Nicholas
Η A. Μακαριότητα ο Μητροπολίτης Κιέβου και πάσης Ουκρανίας κ. Επιφάνιος, με παιδιά κατά την εορτή του Αγίου Νικολάου

ROC IN UKRAINE: UKRAINIAN PARLIAMENT PASSES BILL ON THE NAME OF MOSCOW PATRIARCHATE

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On December 20, 2018, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted bill number 5309, voted for by 240 MPs. MPs from the Opposition Bloc voted against it.

Τετάρτη 19 Δεκεμβρίου 2018

Хто такий Епіфаній, митрополит Київський та всієї України: VIDEO



Ким є предстоятель нової Православної Церкви України, його біографія та як прийшов до сану митрополиту дивіться у відео 24 каналу

PRIMATE OF POLISH ORTHODOX CHURCH EXPRESSES SUPPORT FOR METROPOLITAN ONUFRIY OF KIEV AND ALL UKRAINE



His Beatitude Onufriy, Metropolitan of Kiev and All Ukraine, has received a letter from the Primate of the Polish Orthodox Church expressing concern over the crisis situation in the life of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church resulted from the unlawful actions of the Patriarchate of Constantinople.

ΕΠΙΣΚΕΨΗ ΤΟΥ ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΙΤΗ ΒΟΛΟΚΟΛΑΜΣΚ ΙΛΑΡΙΩΝΑ ΣΤΟ ΜΠΑΡΙ



Στο Μπάρι της Ιταλίας μετέβη από 18 έως 19 Δεκεμβρίου 2017, κατόπιν ευλογίας του Αγιωτάτου Πατριάρχη Μόσχας και Πασών των Ρωσσιών κ.κ. Κυρίλλου, ο Μητροπολίτης Βολοκολάμσκ Ιλαρίωνας, Πρόεδρος του Τμήματος Εξωτερικών Εκκλησιαστικών Σχέσεων του Πατριαρχείου Μόσχας.

Τρίτη 18 Δεκεμβρίου 2018

EΠΙΣΗΜΗ ΣΕΛΙΔΑ ΤΟΥ ΠΑΤΡΙΑΡΧΕΙΟΥ ΤΗΣ ΜΟΣΧΑΣ: ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ & ΑΓΓΛΙΚΑ


 Russian Church launches English and Greek versions of official website
Η Επίσημη Σελίδα του Πατριαρχείου Μόσχας περιλαμβάνει την ελληνική και αγγλική γλώσσα

CYRIL HOVORUN: "IF THE CHARTER IS REVISED, TOMOS WILL BE REVIEWED - THE COUNCIL IS JUST THE BEGINNING OF THE BEGINNING


 
In interview on December 18, 2018, 11:44 of a well-known theologian, scholar, professor at the University of Loyola-Maryomount in Los Angeles, in the past, a researcher at Yale and Columbia University, an archimandrite, a clergyman of the UOC MP Cyril Hovorun, on Sunday after the Council of the Local Church was held.

NICHOLAS DENYSENKO: AFTER THE COUNCIL: CHALLENGES FACING THE ORTHODOX CHURCH OF UKRAINE

 The Wheel
 When Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko initially announced that the Ecumenical Patriarchate (EP) would grant autocephaly to the Orthodox Church in Ukraine, the promise seemed overconfident at best, and delusional at worst. For decades, global Orthodoxy has recognized the canonicity of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP), and dismissed the Kyivan Patriarchate (KP) and Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC) as uncanonical schismatics.

MUSLIMS OF UKRAINE EXPRESSED THEIR RESPECT AND READINESS TO COOPERATE WITH THE ORTHODOX CHURCH OF UKRAINE

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The Muslims of Ukraine have attested to the spiritual affinity of Christians and Muslims and their readiness for cooperation, for the sake of the happy future of Ukraine. This is stated in the congratulatory message sent from the Mufti of Ukraine Said Ismagilov to the newly elected Metropolitan Epifaniy of Kyiv and All Ukraine.

Архімандрит Кирило Говорун: «Якщо буде переглянуто Статут, буде переглянуто Томос»



Це інтерв’ю із знаним богословом, науковцем, професором університету Лойола-Мерімаунт у Лос-Анджелесі, в минулому - науковим співробітником Йельського та Колумбійського університетів, архімандритом, священнослужителем УПЦ МП Кирилом Говоруном ми записували в неділю, одразу після проведення Собору Помісної церкви. Важливо було по «гарячих слідах» проаналізувати історичну подію; нові реалії, нею сформовані, розставити крапки над «і». До оцінок отця Кирила дослухаються як в Україні, так і далеко за її межами, оскільки сам він є фігурою глобального масштабу.
Відтак, в бесіді з LB.ua ми обговорили процес формування нової Помісної церкви, особливості її Статуту, внутрішні конфлікти передсоборного періоду, перспективи переформатування парафій Московського патріархату тощо. «Я б назвав це початком початку», - резюмує Говорун.

CARDINAL KOCH SAYS DIALOGUE CONTINUES DESPITE DIVISIONS

by Christa Pongratz-Lippitt
Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and Pope Francis meet in 2016 in Havana. Swiss Cardinal Kurt Koch (right) is greeting Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of external relations for the Russian Orthodox Church.

WITHOUT PUTIN, WITHOUT KIRILL”. PRIMATE OF THE NEW UKRAINIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH ELECTED


 

 

 



“Without Putin, without Kirill”. Primate of the new Ukrainian Orthodox Church elected
He is Metropolitan Epiphany, right-hand man of the self-proclaimed “Patriarch” Filaret, at the head of an ecclesial structure that until a few months ago was considered a schismatic entity by all the canonical Orthodox Churches. The role of the Ukrainian President Poroshenko

RUSSIA’S WAR ON UKRAINE ROILS THE ORTHODOX CHURCH


Patriarch Filaret, center, heads the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyiv Patriarchate, the largest Ukrainian congregation seeking independence from Moscow. He spoke in Washington in 2015. (Jabin Botsford/The New York Times)
Russia’s War on Ukraine Roils the Orthodox Church
As Moscow contests independence for Ukraine’s church, conflicts could deepen.
Tuesday, December 11, 2018 / By: Charles North

UKRAINE-RUSSIA CONFLICT: THE RELIGIOUS DIMENSION

The Russian government is increasingly seeking to use the Russian Orthodox Church to expand its influence in Ukraine, but the Kremlin is now meeting heightened resistance from many Ukrainian religious communities and particularly from the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyiv Patriarchate. The crisis now threatens to split the Ukrainian Church from its historic ties with Moscow, potentially adding a dangerous religious dimension to the simmering war between Russia and Ukraine.

Δευτέρα 17 Δεκεμβρίου 2018

Η ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΟΥΚΡΑΝΙΑΣ ΣΤΟ ΣΧΕΔΙΟ ΤΟΥ ΚΑΤΑΣΤΑΤΙΚΟΥ ΧΑΡΤΟΥ



 Ιωάννου Λότσιου Δρ.Θ.
Tο σχέδιο του Καταστατικού Χάρτου της Ορθόδοξης Εκκλησίας της Ουκρανίας, είναι ένα πρωταρχικό κείμενο συγκροτήσεως και λειτουργίας της νέας Αυτοκέφαλης Εκκλησίας στην Ουκρανία.

TA ΣΕΠΤΑ ΟΝΟΜΑΣΤΗΡΙΑ ΤΟΥ ΠΑΤΡΙΑΡΧΗ ΡΟΥΜΑΝΙΑΣ


His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel of the Romanian Orthodox Church.
The name day
Η Α. Θειοτατη Μακαριότητα ο Πατριάρχης Ρουμανίας κ.κ.Δανιηλ, άγει τα σεπτά ονομαστηρια.
May the Good Lord bless and guide him always! Many Years!
the Page Panorthodox Synod

Κυριακή 16 Δεκεμβρίου 2018

Ο ΣΕΒ. ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΙΤΗΣ ΓΑΛΛΙΑΣ Κ. ΕΜΜΑΝΟΥΗΛ ΠΡΟΕΔΡΟΣ ΤΗΣ ΕΝΩΤΙΚΗΣ ΣΥΝΟΔΟΥ ΤΟΥ ΚΙΕΒΟΥ


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Η Ενωτική Σύνοδος που συνήλθε στο Κίεβο της Ουκρανίας το Σάββατο 15 Δεκεμβρίου υπό την προεδρία του Μητροπολίτη Γαλλίας Εμμανουήλ, ο οποίος αντιπροσώπευσε τον Οικουμενικό Πατριάρχη Βαρθολομαίο, πέτυχε τη δημιουργία Αυτοκέφαλης Εκκλησίας, όπως είχε προγραμματισθεί και εξαγγελθεί πριν από αρκετούς μήνες.