UKRAINE’S AUTOCEPHALY AS A SOURCE OF CONCILIATION AND CONFRONTATION IN THE ORTHODOX WORLD

VoxUkraine

The last almost three decades since Ukraine’s independence were marked by a fight of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate and Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church against the dominance of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate in Ukraine

Authors:
Khrystyna Karelska, College of Europe in Natolin, Democracy Study Centre
Andreas Umland, Principal Researcher at the Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation in Kyiv

HOW RUSSIA’S ORTHODOX CHURCH REJECTS UKRAINIAN AUTOCEPHALY

 Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill visits St George church, the main Greek Orthodox cathedral during his visit on Aug. 31, 2018 in Istanbul.

Photo by AFP

 By VoxUkraine, Christine Borovkova, Scholar of the Democracy Study Center, Andreas Umland, political scientist, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation

COMPLICATIONS IN TBILISI’S FRIENDSHIP WITH KYIV. THE GEORGIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH AND UKRAINIAN AUTOCEPHALY.

 The Holy Trinity Cathedral in Tbilisi. The main cathedral of the Georgian Orthodox Church. Photo: Daniel Gleichgewicht
Andreas Umland Tamar Chapidze,
New Eastern Europe