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Press service of the Kyiv Metropolitanate Ukrainian Orthodox Church (OCU)
A session of the Holy Synod took place
28 Липня 2019
On July 27, 2019, a regular session of the Holy Synod of
the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Orthodox Church of Ukraine) took place in
the Congregation Hall of the Kyiv Orthodox Theological Academy under
the chairmanship of His Beatitude Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine
Epiphaniy.
The meeting was attended by all members of the Synod, except for the Honorable Patriarch Filaret (without a valid reason) and the Archbishop of Rivne and Ostroh Hilarion (for a valid reason).
The Holy Synod considered a number of topical issues and adopted the following resolutions:
The meeting was attended by all members of the Synod, except for the Honorable Patriarch Filaret (without a valid reason) and the Archbishop of Rivne and Ostroh Hilarion (for a valid reason).
The Holy Synod considered a number of topical issues and adopted the following resolutions:
1. To express strong protest and profound indignation at the ongoing
violence of the Russian occupation authorities against the Orthodox
Church of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of the Crimea and in
Sevastopol, which during the last time turned out to be a deliberate
damage and plunder of the building and property of the Cathedral of the
holy Equal-to- apostles princes Volodymyr and Olga and the Crimean
diocese of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Orthodox Church of Ukraine) in
the city of Simferopol, in creating obstacles to the access of the
clergy and faithful to the cathedral and the diocesal management. The
Orthodox Church of Ukraine once again demands from the Russian
Federation to stop a deliberate violation of one of the fundamental
human rights – the right to freedom of conscience and religion in the
occupied Crimea and Sevastopol. To remind those who are directly
involved in violent actions against the cathedral of the Crimean diocese
of the UOC (OCU), in particular, the figures of the Russian “courts”,
“judges”, and the occupation “ministry of property”employees, that their
actions are not only a crime under human law, but a grave sin of
sacrilege and humiliation of the consecrated house of God. To encourage
the Ukrainian and international community to demand that Russia stop the
violation of the rights of the Ukrainian Orthodox community of Crimea,
and bring the perpetrators to justice, including the strengthening of
international sanctions against the Russian Federation and against
specific officials of the “court”, “judiciary”, “ministry of property”
and others , directly involved in violation of the right to freedom of
conscience and religion in the occupied Autonomous Republic of Crimea.
2. Taking into account the pastoral needs of Romanian-speaking
Orthodox communities in Ukraine, according to the example of the
organization of the church life of the parishes of the Romanian Orthodox
Church with the predominant number of ethnic Ukrainians, to form the
Orthodox Romanian vicariate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Orthodox
Church of Ukraine) for religious organizations (religious communities
and monasteries) in Ukraine with the predominant number of ethnic
Romanians. The Orthodox Romanian vicariate of the UOC (OCU) is directly
subordinated to the Primate of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine to His
Beatitude Metropolitan of Kyiv and all Ukraine as a special
administrative structure with the rights of self-government as part of a
religious association of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine. Religious
organizations (religious communities and monasteries) with a predominant
number of ethnic Romanians on voluntary basis may join the Orthodox
Romanian Vicariate of the UOC (OCU). For these religious communities,
the right to respect Romanian Orthodox liturgical, linguistic and
calendar traditions is guaranteed. The rights of self-government and the
structure of the Orthodox Romanian vicariate of the UOC (OCU) are fixed
in the Statute of the Office of the Orthodox Romanian Vicariate of the
UOC (OCU), which must be performed jointly with representatives of
religious organizations wishing to enter the Vicariate, in fraternal
cooperation with the Romanian Orthodox Church in accordance with the
position of its Holy Synod expressed earlier. The Statute of the Office
of the Orthodox Romanian Vicariate of the UOC (OCU) is adopted by the
Holy Synod of the UOC (OCU) and approved by the Primate, His Beatitude
Metropolitan of Kyiv and all Ukraine.
3. To bless the formation of male monastery in honor of the holy martyr and healer Panteleimon in Zhytomyr-Ovruch diocese.
4. To bless the formation of the male monastery in honor of St. Nectariy of Eghinsk in the Pereyaslav-Vyshnevsky diocese.
5. To establish in the Orthodox Church of Ukraine on September 22
(September 9, old st.), on the day of the memory of the holy
Godly-parents Joachim and Anna, – the Day of prayer for the family. On
this day, in the churches of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, to perform
Divine Liturgies and prayers for these saints, as patrons of the family,
with special prayer requests for peace in families, good education of
children, spiritual welfare and earthly plenty of families. To bless on
this day to devote sermons of clergy on family matters, to hold
family-related thematic events both at the level of dioceses and
parishes, and in cooperation with secular organizations interested in
it.
6. The Synod also discussed some organizational issues related to the implementation of previously adopted resolutions.
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