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Bishop Job is a Professor who speaks six
languages and has completed all the stages of theological education of
the Ecumenical Patriarchate.
Archbishop of the Ecumenical Patriarchate Job (Getcha) believes that the OCU should unite all Orthodox.
He said this in an interview with Religiyna Pravda (Religious Truth).
“Now, the main challenges of the
Orthodox Church of Ukraine are unity and spiritual development. The
Orthodox Church of Ukraine should unite all Orthodox people in Ukraine,
regardless of their origin, nationality, language or political views.
Regarding its spiritual development, according to Metropolitan Hilarion
(Ogienko), an outstanding Hierarch of the Orthodox Church of Poland, one
of the first translators of the Holy Scriptures and liturgical texts
into Ukrainian and an Archpastor of the Orthodox Diaspora in Canada, the
Church needs three things: education, monasticism and publishing.
Therefore, it is necessary to start and develop theological education in
Ukraine according to University and scientific criteria; to develop
true monasticism, which would be a true lamp of spiritual life, and not
just be engaged in the construction of Church entities; to release
catechetical, theological and liturgical books in Ukrainian of
impeccable quality that would meet the spiritual needs of the faithful
today. This requires a lot of work and effort.
Also, no Church should become
introverted and limit itself to its problems. We must always remember
the universal character of the Church and its global mission. Archbishop
Anastasius of Albania says that every time a local Church is absorbed
only by its own interests, a spiritual stagnation occurs. For whoever
closes himself up and isolates himself, loses himself.”
