PENALTY OR ABUSE OF POWER? CANONICAL SANCTIONS AND UKRAINIAN AUTOCEPHALY

FR. NICHOLAS DENYSENKO, ''Penalty or Abuse of Power? Canonical Sanctions and Ukrainian Autocephaly'',  in  The Ecumenical Patriarchate and Ukraine Autocephaly, Evagelos Sotiropoulos, Editor, May 2019, ORDER OF SAINT ANDREW THE APOSTLE, ARCHONS OF THE ECUMENICAL PATRIARCHATE, pp. 17-26.

NICHOLAS DENISENKO: A SOBOR IN KYIV

 A SOBOR IN KYIV

Today, the all-church council (pomisnyj sobor) of the Kyivan Patriarchate took place at St. Volodymyr in Kyiv. Three bishops attended - Metropolitans Filaret and Ioasaph, and Bishop Peter (Ioasaph's vicar). Note that Ioasaph's eparchy is in the Russian Federation.

FILARET’S FINAL ACT AND THE FUTURE OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH OF UKRAINE

by Rev. Dr. Nicholas Denysenko, Public Orthodox

In the four months that have elapsed since the Ecumenical Patriarchate (EP) granted autocephaly to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU), the process of adjusting to the new situation has been challenging for both the OCU and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP).

HEALING THE UKRAINIAN SCHISM A PROPOSAL FOR THE NEXT STEP

by Rev. Dr. Nicholas Denysenko

NICKOLAS DENISSENKO: FOR TOMOS AUTOCEFALY

COMMENT ON FB

I paused posting about the situation in the Ukrainian Church to take a much-needed vacation. A few thoughts in this new year:

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

By Alia Shandra

On 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.

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

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.

UKRAINIAN AUTOCEPHALY: BEYONG GEOPOLITCS, PRIMACY STRUGGLE, CANONICAL DISPUTE, CULTURE WAR, RUSSKII MIR etc.(N.Denissenko)

NICHOLAS DENISENKO, comment fb

DID THE MAIDAN LIGHT A FIRE UNDER THE MOVEMENT FOR AUTOCEPHALY?

NICHOLAS DENISENKO: ON AUTOKEFALY IN OUKRANIAN

 

As the process of obtaining autocephaly for the Church in Ukraine  enters the homestretch, clergy and laity argue about canonical territory, the "legitimization of schism," and nationalism. The incessant obsession with these issues obscures the reality of a Church as a community of people who continue to engage everyday life while they go to church. One cannot separate the struggle for autocephaly from the conditions of everyday life. Headlines about long-tenured hierarchs and high-level meetings involving more media than people barely scratch the surface of a much more complex story.