UKRAINIAN CHURCH AUTOCEPHALY: THE REDRAWING OF THE RELIGIOUS BORDERS AND POLITICAL IDENTITIES IN THE CONFLICT BETWEEN UKRAINE AND RUSSIA

By Alexander Ponomariov, University of Passau, Germany

Abstract 

 A rapid and sudden change of religious and political boundaries and identities in connection with the contestation of Ukrainian Orthodoxy by the Ecumenical Patriarchate has remodeled the church schism in Ukraine, but without resolving it. Global Orthodoxy   is going to be split into mutually exclusive clusters  with two major centers, Moscow and Istanbul. Against the background of the 2019 presidential campaign, this theopolitical conflict in Ukraine could trigger a bloody religious war with far-reaching consequences

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Ukrainian Church Autocephaly: Te Redrawing of the Religious Borders and Political Identities in the Conflict between Ukraine and Russia By Alexander Ponomariov, University of Passau, Germany