SERGEI CHAPNIN: WAR OF PATRIARCHS. HOW THE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH CRASHED IN UKRAINE

Why does Patriarch Cyril fight for the church in Ukraine? Her loss is a blow to the concept of the “Church of the Empire,” which he developed after the fall of the USSR. Until recently, it was hard not to agree that the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) is the largest and richest, but it could not be converted into diplomatic victories over the Greeks.

O ΘΕΣΜΌΣ ΤHΣ ΑUΤΟΚΕΦΑΛΊΑΣ ΣΤΉΝ OΡΘΌΔΟΞΗ EΚΚΛΗΣΊΑ

Ἱερὰ Μητρόπολη Ναυπάκτου καὶ Ἁγίου Βλασίου

τοῦ Μητροπολίτου Ναυπάκτου καί Ἁγίου Βλασίου κ. Ἱεροθέου

Μέ ἀφορμή τήν διαδικασία χορηγήσεως ἐκκλησιαστικῆς Αὐτοκεφαλίας στήν Οὐκρανία ἀπό τό Οἰκουμενικό Πατριαρχεῖο, γίνεται ἔντονη συζήτηση καί διατυπώνονται διάφορες ἀπόψεις.

UKRAINE PRELATE SAYS ORTHODOX INDEPENDENCE IS ‘AFFIRMATION OF RIGHTS’

Pope Francis embraces Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk of Kiev-Halych, head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, during a meeting with the Ukrainian Catholic community at the Basilica of Santa Sophia in Rome Jan. 28. (Credit: CNS photo/Remo Casilli, Reuters.)

ΣΥΝΕΝΤΕΥΞΗ ΤΟΥ ΟΥΚΡΑΝΟΥ ΠΡΟΚΑΘΗΜΕΝΟΥ ΤΩΝ ΟΥΝΙΤΩΝ 

Κατά την παρουσία του στη Ρώμη για την σύναξη των επισκόπων της Καθολικής Εκκλησίας προκειμένου να εξετάσουν το ζήτημα των νέων, ο αρχιεπίσκοπος της Εκκλησίας των Ουνιτών της Ουκρανίας Sviatoslav Shevchuk έδωσε λίγο μετά την απόφαση της συνόδου Οικ. Πατριαρχείου (9-11.10.18), και πριν της απόφαση του Πατριαρχείου Μόσχας (15.10.18)), ενδιαφέρουσα εκτενή συνέντευξη στο διεθνούς κύρους εκκλησιαστικό περιοδικό Crux για την εκκλησιαστική, αλλά και γενικότερη κοινωνικο-πολιτική, κατάσταση στην Ουκρανία. 

Είναι πολλά τα ενδιαφέροντα στοιχεία αυτής της συνέντευξης, ένα από τα οποία ασφαλώς και η εκτίμησή του, ότι η πρωτοβουλία του Οικουμενικού Πατριαρχείου ήταν κάτι σαν "χάδι στα εκατομμύρια των Ουκρανών από την μητέρα Εκκλησία".

John L. Allen Jr. and Ines San Martin, Oct 17, 2018, cruxnow.com

ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΙΤΟΥ ΣΑΡΔΕΩΝ ΜΑΞΙΜΟΥ: ΤΟ ΟΙΚΟΥΜΕΝΙΚΟΝ ΠΑΤΡΙΑΡΧΕΙΟΝ ΕΝ ΤΗ ΟΡΘΟΔΟΞΩ ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ. ΙΣΤΟΡΙΚΟΚΑΝΟΝΙΚΗ ΜΕΛΕΤΗ [PdF, Greek-English]

PdF, Greek-English

Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA

Metropolitan Maximos of Sardes: The Ecumenical Patriarchate in the Orthodox Church:

 Read the interesting study of the late Metropolitan Maximos of Sardes,

 entitled: The Ecumenical Patriarchate in the Orthodox Church,

 [publication of the Patriarchal Institute for Patristic Studies (Thessaloniki, 1989)] ):

A MEMORANDUM TO THE ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CLERGY AND LAITY REGARDING UNITY IN UKRAINE

The Order of St. Andrew the Apostle is comprised of Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate

A Memorandum to the Orthodox Christian Clergy and Laity regarding Unity In Ukraine

A MAJOR RESHUFFLE IN THE ORTHODOX WORLD (PART I)

Ukrainian Archbishop Yevstratiy Zoria

bulgaria analytica

 Svetoslav Ribolov, PhD, is Associate Professor of Early Christian Literature and Jewish Hellenistic Literature at the University of Sofia “St Kliment of Ochrid”

POROSHENKO ABOUT BREAKUP OF RELATIONS BETWEEN MOSCOW AND CONSTANTINOPLE: WE ARE ON THE RIGHT PATH

Religious Information Service of Ukraine

President Petro Poroshenko believes that Ukraine has made the right choice by asking the Ecumenical Patriarchate to grant autocephaly to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

Ο ΟΙΚΟΥΜΕΝΙΚΟΣ ΠΑΤΡΙΑΡΧΗΣ ΠΡΟΣ ΤΟΝ ΜΑΚΑΡΙΣΤΟ ΜΟΣΧΑΣ ΑΛΕΞΙΟ ΓΙΑ ΤΗΝ ΥΠΕΡΟΡΙΟ ΔΙΚΑΙΟΔΟΣΙΑ ΤΟΥ ΟΙΚΟΥΜΕΝΙΚΟΥ ΘΡΟΝΟΥ

Του Παναγιώτη Αντ. Ανδριόπουλου

Με αφορμή επιστολή του Οικουμενικού Πατριάρχου Βαρθολομαίου προς τον μακαριστό Πατριάρχη Μόσχας Αλέξιο Β’, η οποία είδε το φως της δημοσιότητος, οιονεί ως «ντοκουμέντο» και δια της οποίας ο Πατριάρχης αναγνωρίζει την πράξη της καθαίρεσης του νυν Μητροπολίτου πρ. Κιέβου Φιλαρέτου, ας επισημάνουμε και ας υπενθυμίσουμε τα ακόλουθα: 

Η ΑΠΟΜΟΝΩΣΗ ΤΗΣ ΜΟΣΧΑΣ ΑΠΟ ΤΟΝ ΟΡΘΟΔΟΞΟ ΚΟΣΜO

ΜΕ ΤΗΝ ΑΠΟΦΑΣΗ ΠΛΗΡΟΥΣ ΑΚΟΙΝΩΝΗΣΙΑΣ ΜΕ ΤΟ ΦΑΝΑΡΙ 

Η Μόσχα ενσπείρει διχόνοια 

Του Αριστείδη Βικέτου 

UNO SCISMA IMPERIALE. SE MOSCA NON ACCETTA LA STORIA NEL NOME DEL SUO PASSATO

Formiche - Base per Altezza srl

La profezia di Bartolomeo, che vuole tenere l’ortodossia in rapporto con la storia, e le paure esistenziali russe, memori del loro impero, non sono conciliabili oggi. Domani la storia saprà dimostrare di non essere un incidente, ma nel frattempo il rischio è che altri incidenti antistorici possano aggravare il quadro

THE LAND OF ST. VLADIMIR, AN HISTORICAL OVERVIEW OF UKRAINE

The Baptism of Rus’. Fresco from the St. Vladimir Cathedral in Kiev, Ukraine. Victor Vasnetsov, 1896.

UN CORNELIA REES: THE LAND OF ST. VLADIMIR: AN HISTORICAL OVERVIEW OF ORTHODOXY IN UKRAINE

The Land of St. Vladimir attempts to provide a history of Orthodox Christianity in this region to give the reader a clearer understanding of the numerous complex circumstances that have shaped it. Beginning just prior to the baptism of Rus ’, Nun Cornelia chronicles the events that unfolded over the centuries: attacks, occupations, religious persecutions, and, through the midst of it all, innumerable manifestations of sanctity, perseverance, spiritual solidarity, and courage.

Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies

Video: Ukrainian Orthodoxy and the Question of Autocephaly: Religious and Political Dimensions of the Conflict between Constantinople and Moscow

THE SUNDAY SHOW ON AUTOCEPHALY FOR UKRAINIAN CHURCH AND RUSSIA'S FUTURE IN PACE

STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE REGARDING THE DECISION OF THE HOLY SYNOD OF THE ECUMENICAL PATRIARCHATE

11 October 2018 - 19:27

The Presidential Administration of Ukraine

Dear Ukrainians!

STATEMENT BY THE HOLY SYNOD OF THE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH CONCERNING THE ENCROACHMENT OF THE PATRIARCHATE OF CONSTANTINOPLE ON THE CANONICAL TERRITORY OF THE RUSSIAN CHURCH

© Oksana Manchyk/BelTA/TASS
The Russian Orthodox Church. Department for External Church Relations

STATEMENT BY THE HOLY SYNOD OF THE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH CONCERNING THE ENCROACHMENT OF THE PATRIARCHATE OF CONSTANTINOPLE ON THE CANONICAL TERRITORY OF THE RUSSIAN CHURCH

15.10.2018 20:07

METROPOLITAN HILARION: THE PATRIARCHATE OF CONSTANTINOPLE HAS LOST THE RIGHT TO BE CALLED THE COORDINATING CENTER FOR THE ORTHODOX CHURCH

The Russian Orthodox Church. Department for External Church Relations

ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΊΤΗΣ ΙΛΑΡΊΩΝΑΣ: ΣΉΜΕΡΑ ΛΉΦΘΗΚΕ ΑΠΌΦΑΣΗ, ΤΗΝ ΟΠΟΊΑ ΑΠΑΙΤΟΎΝ IΕΡΟΊ KΑΝΌΝΕΣ

© Mikhail Metsel/TASS
The Russian Orthodox Church. Department for External Church Relations

Μετά της τακτικής συνεδρίας της Ιεράς Συνόδου της Ορθοδόξου Εκκλησίας της Ρωσίας τη 15 Οκτωβρίου  2018 στο Μινσκ Λευκορωσίας, πραγματοποιήθηκε συνάντησή του πρόεδρου του Τμήματος Εξωτερικών Εκκλησιαστικών Σχέσεων του Πατριαρχείου Μητροπολίτη Βολοκολάμσκ Ιλαρίωνα με τους δημοσιογράφους. 

Η ΑΝΑΓΚΗ ΤΟΥ "ΠΡΩΤΟΥ" ΣΤΗΝ ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΑΝΑΤΟΛΗΣ

Τοῦ Ἀριστείδη Πανώτη ,

Ἡ ἀνάγκη νὰ θεσπιστεῖ «Πρῶτος» καὶ στήν Ἑκκλησία τῆς Ἀνατολῆς

AS EXPECTED MOSCOW DECIDED TO BREAK COMMUNION WITH CONSTANTINOPLE, BUT LEFT A WINDOW OPEN

AS EXPECTED MOSCOW DECIDED TO BREAK COMMUNION WITH CONSTANTINOPLE, BUT LEFT A WINDOW OPEN
An hour ago the official site of the Moscow Patriarchate posted the following announcement:
October 15, 2018 19:33

THREE HIERARCHS OF BULGARIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH MAKE STATEMENT ON SITUATION IN UKRAINE

The Russian Orthodox Church. Department for External Church Relations

Metropolitans Gabriel of Lovech, John of Varna and Veliki Preslavl and Daniel of Vidin stated their considerations about the alarming situation in which the Orthodox Church in Ukraine has found herself. They have made the following statement, which was published on October 9, 2018, on the official site of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church:

ΠΡΟΚΑΘΗΜΕΝΟΣ ΤΗΣ ΟΡΘΟΔΟΞΟΥ ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑΣ ΤΣΕΧΙΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΣΛΟΒΑΚΙΑΣ ΕΞΕΦΡΑΣΕ ΤΗ ΘΕΣΗ ΤΟΥ ΕΝΑΝΤΙ ΤΩΝ ΕΞΕΛΙΞΕΩΝ ΣΤΗΝ ΟΥΚΡΑΝΙΑ

The Russian Orthodox Church. Department for External Church Relations

Προκαθήμενος της Ορθοδόξου Εκκλησίας Τσεχίας και Σλοβακίας εξέφρασε τη θέση του έναντι των εξελίξεων στην Ουκρανία

ΕΚΤΑΚΤΗ ΣΥΓΚΛΗΣΗ ΤΗΣ ΙΕΡΑΡΧΙΑΣ ΔΙΑ ΤΟ ΦΛΕΓΟΝ ΟΥΚΡΑΝΙΚΟ ΖΗΤΗΜΑ ΖΗΤΑ Ο ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΙΤΗΣ ΚΥΘΗΡΩΝ

WHAT REALLY HAPPENED IN CONSTANTINOPLE LAST WEEK

Metropolitan Emmanuel of France reads a statement after the Synod meeting at the Ecumenical Orthodox Patriarchate in Istanbul, Turkey October 11, 2018. REUTERS/Murad Sezer

Father Cyril Hovorun is acting director of the Huffington Ecumenical Institute at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California.atlantic council

PROFESSSOR REV. MIKHAIL ZHETLOV: HISTORICAL-CANONICAL BASIS FOR THE UNITY OF THE RUSSIAN CHURCH

PROFESSSOR REV. MIKHAIL ZHETLOV: HISTORICAL-CANONICAL BASIS FOR THE UNITY OF THE RUSSIAN CHURCH

The following article describes in detail and scrupulously analyzes the historical events connected with the arrangement of Church life in Kiev, Moscow, and Western Rus’ over the span of the last millennium. Over that period of time, the unity of the Russian Orthodox Church has been attacked a number of times from various sides, but it has nevertheless continued to exist significantly longer than those broken periods. In Byzantine times it was namely the Church of Constantinople that advocated for this unity against the rising political conflicts between one or another Russian princedom. Only the Byzantium elite itself was able to tear the metropolia of all the Russias from Constantinople, when it first tried to use Russian Orthodoxy as a bargaining chip in its desperate attempt to get the West to come to the aid of perishing Constantinople, and then allowed the Uniate metropolitan to usurp the title of the primate of “All Rus’”; but the objective course of history has given a comprehensive answer to this question, fixed in a whole series of ecclesiastical-canonical documents cited by the author, which leave no grounds for any lawful reinterpretation whatsoever.

HAS MOSCOW UNDERMINED ITS ABILITY TO ENGENDER A SCHISM?

 
      

   by Sotiris Mitralexis

Most observers are growing increasingly more worried about the drifting apart of Constantinople and Moscow on the basis of Ukraine’s imminent autocephaly. I would like to make a case to the contrary. There are indications that the possibility of a full-blown schism between two halves of the Orthodox world (rather than between two patriarchates) has lessened recently due to Moscow’s problematic handling of the crisis during the last few weeks.

TOMOS ANTE PORTAS: A SHORT GUIDE TO UKRAINIAN CHURCH INDEPENDENCE

On 11 October, a three-day meeting of the Synod, or church council, of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, finished in Istanbul. It gave further confirmation that Ukraine is on the path to receiving church independence from Moscow – and healing its schism, which has for nearly thirty years divided the world’s second largest Orthodox nation.

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.

CAN HISTORY SOLVE THE CONFLICT ABOUT UKRAINIAN AUTOCEPHALY?

 

by Thomas Bremer and Sophia Senyk

ΑΝΑΚΟΙΝΩΘΈΝ ΟΙΚΟΥΜΕΝΙΚΟΥ ΠΑΤΡΙΑΡΧΕΙΟΥ ΓΙΑ ΤΗN ΟΥΚΡΑΝΙΑ , gr-eng

Οικουμενικόν Πατριαρχείον

Announcement (11/10/2018).

ECUMENICAL PATRIARCHATE REINSTATES UKRAINE’S PATRIARCH FILARET, ARCHBISHOP MAKARIY VIDEO

VIDEO CLICK HERE EP REINSTATES UKRAINE’S PATRIARCH FILARET, ARCHBISHOP MAKARIY

The Patriarch of Kiev, Filaret, and the Archbishop of Ukraine, Makariy, are as of today considered canonical hierarchs of the Orthodox Church.

ΧΡΗΣΤΟΣ ΓΙΑΝΝΑΡΑΣ:Η ΥΒΡΙΣ ΤΗΣ ΑΥΤΟΚΕΦΑΛΙΑΣ

ΧΡΗΣΤΟΣ ΓΙΑΝΝΑΡΑΣ, kathimerini 07.10.2018

A HISTORICAL VISIT: HIS BEATITUDE PATRIARCH JOHN OF ANTIOCH AND ALL EAST IN BELGRADE

Patriarchate of Serbia

His Beatitude Patriarch John of Antioch and All East arrived in Serbia to pay an official (irenic) visit to His Holiness Patriarch Irinej and the Serbian Orthodox Church (photo gallery ) on 11 October 2018.

EXARCHS IN THE ECUMENICAL PATRIARCHATE

                                                          Ecumenical Patriarchate

 Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew received Archbishop Daniel of Pamphilon and Bishop Ilarion of Edmonton, who yesterday appeared before the Holy and Sacred Synod of the Ecumenical Throne

ІНТЕРВ'Ю З ЧИКАЗЬКИМ ВЛАДИКОЮ ПРО ТОМОС І НЕ ТІЛЬКИ. ЧАСТИНА I

Нещодавно Преосвященний владика Венедикт (Алексійчук), архиєрей єпархії Святого Миколая з осідком у Чикаго, перебував з візитом в Україні. Владика люб'язно погодився дати інтерв'ю "Католицькому оглядачу" стосовно того, як нам - греко-католикам варто ставитись до подій, пов'язаних з наданням Томосу українському православ'ю., catholicnews

UKRAINE IS DANGEROUSLY CLOSE TO A RELIGIOUS WAR. To avoid bloodshed, all sides will have to act wisely

To avoid bloodshed, all sides will have to act wisely.

By 

Sergey V Chapnin

10 ottobre 2018, 07:00 CEST

Be a lover, not a fighter. Photographer: Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP/Getty Images

CAN TUG-OF-WAR LEAD TO UNITY? THE FUTURE OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH IN UKRAINE

by Ines Angeli Murzaku

ΑΠΟΣΤΟΛΙΚΗ ΣΥΝΟΔΟΣ ΙΕΡΟΣΟΛΥΜΩΝ (48 Μ.Χ.)-ΑΓΙΑ ΚΑΙ ΜΕΓΑΛΗ ΣΥΝΟΔΟΣ (2016): ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΚΑΙ ΟΙΚΟΥΜΕΝΗ ΕΝΩΠΙΟΝ ΔΥΟ ΔΙΑΔΟΧΙΚΩΝ ΧΙΛΙΕΤΗΡΙΔΩΝ

Του Σωτήριου Δεσπότη, Προέδρου του Τμήματος Κοινωνικής Θεολογίας και Θρησκειολογίας του ΕΚΠΑ

ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΙΤΗΣ ΒΟΛΟΚΟΛΑΜΣΚ ΙΛΑΡΙΩΝ, ΑΝΤΙΚΑΝΟΝΙΚΕΣ ΟΙ ΚΙΝΗΣΕΙΣ ΑΠΟ ΤΟ ΦΑΝΑΡΙ

ΣΤH ΜΑΡΙΝΑ ΖΙΩΖΙΟΥ mzioziou@ethnos.gr

Ο επικεφαλής των Εξωτερικών Σχέσεων του Πατριαρχείου Μόσχας τονίζει ότι το Πατριαρχείο Κωνσταντινου-πόλεως δεν απάντησε καν στις προτάσεις για διάλογο επί του ουκρανικού εκκλησιαστικού ζητήµατος

RUSSIA-UKRAINE TENSIONS SET UP THE BIGGEST CHRISTIAN SCHISM SINCE 1054

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, center, the spiritual leader of Eastern Orthodox Christians worldwide, could grant independence to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church this week.CreditCredit

Lefteris Pitarakis/Associated Press

By Neil MacFarquhar, Oct. 7, 2018, nytimes.com

Ο ΒΟΛΟΚΟΛΑΜΣΚ ΙΛΑΡΙΩΝ ΓΙΑ ΤΟ «ΦΩΣ ΦΑΝΑΡΙΟΥ» ΣΤΟ «ΕΘΝΟΣ ΤΗΣ ΚΥΡΙΑΚΗΣ»

Φως Φαναρίου

Του Παναγιώτη Αντ. Ανδριόπουλου 

Ο μητροπολίτης Βολοκολάμσκ Ιλαρίων, Πρόεδρος του Τμήματος Εξωτερικών Εκκλησιαστικών Σχέσεων του Πατριαρχείου Μόσχας, παραχώρησε μια συνέντευξη στο σημερινό φύλλο (7-10-2018) της εφημερίδας «ΕΘΝΟΣ ΤΗΣ ΚΥΡΙΑΚΗΣ», μέσω της οποίας αναπτύσσει τις θέσεις της Εκκλησίας της Ρωσίας για το ζήτημα της εκχωρήσεως Αυτοκεφαλίας στην Εκκλησία της Ουκρανίας από το Οικουμενικό Πατριαρχείο.