METROPOLITAN EPIFANIY THANKED PATRIARCH BARTHOLOMEW FOR SIGNING THE TOMOS

Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine Epifaniy thanked Patriarch Bartholomew for signing the Tomos, noting that the Orthodox Church of Ukraine was waiting for its granting with impatience and excitement.

PRESIDENT INVITED ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH BARTHOLOMEW TO VISIT UKRAINE

 The Presidential Administration of Ukraine

Η ΠΑΡΑΔΟΣΗ ΤΟΥ ΤΟΜΟΥ ΤΗΣ ΑΥΤΟΚΕΦΑΛΙΑΣ ΣΤΗΝ ΟΥΚΡΑΝΙΑ

Ο Οικουμενικός Πατριάρχης Βαρθολομαίος παρέδδωσε επισήμως τον Πατριαρχικό και Συνοδικό Τόμο της αναγνώρισης του Αυτοκεφάλου της Εκκλησίας της Ουκρανία

A WAY OUT OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH’S PRESENT CRISIS by Antoine Arjakovsky

The original French version of this wide-ranging article appeared on December 15, the day of the Reunification Council in Kyiv. This explains why a few of the details are already dated. Yet the substance of Prof. Arjakovsky’s commentary remains a valuable contribution to our dialogue on the current state of the Orthodox Church. The author offers much to ponder—and much to debate.

THE INSTITUTION OF AUTOCEPHALY IN THE ORTHODOX CHURCH

By Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos and Agiou Vlasiou,

 Source: Translated from the Greek by Fr Patrick B. O'Grady.

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:

ΒΑΡΘΟΛΟΜΑΙΟΣ: «ΣΑΣ ΚΑΛΩ ΝΑ ΑΝΑΓΝΩΡΙΣΕΤΕ ΤΗΝ ΟΡΘΟΔΟΞΗ ΟΥΚΡΑΝΙΚΗ ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΩΣ ΑΥΤΟΚΕΦΑΛΗ»

 

Η επιστολή του Οικουμενικού Πατριάρχη προς τους Πατριάρχες και Αρχιεπισκόπους των αυτοκέφαλων Ορθοδόξων Εκκλησιών – Οχι από τον Πολωνίας επιφυλάξεις από τον Αντιοχείας

Αντωνιάδου Μαρία , tovima.gr

Маркери змін. Коментарі до Статуту Православної Церкви України

Найважливіше, що було зроблено на об‘єднавчому соборі 15 грудня 2018 року – це ухвалення статуту нової церкви. Саме з нього почалася нова церква і саме він визначатиме, чи стане вона справді новою, чи залишиться старою із зміненою вивіскою. Далі пропоную не стільки детальний огляд усього документа, скільки аналіз деяких його моментів, які є маркерами потенційних якісних змін. Саме за станом цих маркерів можна буде визначити, чи змінилася українська церква на краще, чи вона залишається однією ногою у радянсько-імперському минулому.

CHRISTMAS MESSAGE PATRIARCH OF SERBIA

Patriarchate of Serbia

Божићна посланица Српске Православне Цркве

CHRISTMAS MESSAGE FROM METROPOLITAN OF KΥΙV AND ALL UKRAINE EPIPHANY

CHRISTMAS MESSAGE FROM METROPOLITAN OF KΥΙV AND ALL UKRAINE EPIPHANY

ΧΡΙΣΤΟΥΓΕΝΝΙΆΤΙΚΟ ΜΗΝΥΜΑ ΤΟΥ ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΙΤΟΥ ΚΙΕΒΟΥ ΚΑΙ ΠΑΣΗΣ ΟΥΚΡΑΝΙΑΣ ΕΠΙΦΑΝΙΟΥ

ORTHODOX CONFLICT IN UKRAINE ''TRAGIC, SAYS SCHONBORN

St Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery, Ukraine, a few days from Orthodox Christmas
Photo: Sadak SouiciLe Pictorium/Zuma Press/PA Images

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

by Christa Pongratz-Lippitt

THE CHURCH COUNCIL AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE NEW LOCAL CHURCH IN KIEV

Metropolitan of the new Orthodox Church in Ukraine and Metropolitan of Kiev Epiphanius (Domenko)

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

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.

METROPOLITAN EPIPHANIUS: PROCEDURE FOR GRANTING TOMOS TO UKRAINE WILL START ON JANUARY 5

The procedure for granting the Tomos of Autocephaly to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine will start on January 5.

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

GUESTS FROM KOSOVO AND METOHIJA VISIT THE DECR

On 25 December 2018, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations (DECR) met with Bishop Teodosije of Raška-Prizren, Serbian Orthodox Church, and hieromonk Isidor (Jagodić), who have arrived as pilgrims to venerate the holy sites of the Russian Orthodox Church.

NEW CHANCES, NEW RISKS. WHERE UKRAINIAN ORTHODOXY STANDS ON THE EVE OF INDEPENDENCE

The Unification Council of the Ukrainian Orthodox Churches took place in the St. Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv on 15 December. Photo: president.gov.ua 

ΤΟ ΠΑΤΡΙΑΡΧΕΙΟ ΓΕΩΡΓΙΑΣ ΥΠΟΣΤΗΡΙΖΕΙ ΤΗΝ ΑΥΤΟΚΕΦΑΛΙΑ ΣΤΗΝ ΟΥΚΡΑΝΙΑ

SPEECH OF HIS HOLINESS PATRIARCH CYRIL AT THE MEETING OF THE HIGH COUNCIL ON DECEMBER 26, 2018

Speech of His Holiness Patriarch Cyril at the meeting of the High Council on December 26, 2018

SOLEMNITY OF THE NATIVITY OF THE LORD PAPAL MASS HOMILY OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS

 

MIDNIGHT MASS

SOLEMNITY OF THE NATIVITY OF THE LORD

PAPAL MASS

HOMILY OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS

Vatican Basilica
Monday, 24 December 2018

The Holy See 

PATRIARCH KIRILL SENDS CHRISTMAS GREETINGS TO HEADS OF NON-ORTHODOX CHURCHES

His  Kirill, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, has sent Christmas greetings to heads of non-Orthodox Churches. The addressees include Patriarch Tawadros II of the Coptic Church, Pope Francis of Rome, Patriarch Mar Ignatius Aphrem II, head of the Syrian Jacobite Church; Catholicos-Patriarch Mar Gewargis II Sliwa, Assyrian Church of the East; Maronite Patriarch Beshara Boutros, Cardinal al-Rahi; Catholicos of the East, Metropolitan of Malankara Basilios Mar Thoma Poulos; Patriarch Abune MathiasI of Ethiopia.

List Bożonarodzeniowy Świętego Soboru Biskupów PAKP

List Bożonarodzeniowy Świętego Soboru Biskupów PAKP

ΑΡΧΙΕΠΙΣΚΟΠΙΚΗ ΕΓΚΥΚΛΙΟΣ ΓΙΑ ΤΑ ΧΡΙΣΤΟΥΓΕΝΝΑ 2018

 

ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΚΥΠΡΟΥ 

PASTORAL LETTER OF THE HOLY SYNOD OF THE BULGARIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH ON THE NATIVITY OF THE LORD 2018

Please find below the pastoral letter sent by the members of the Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church on the Feast of the Nativity of the Lord 2018.

PASTORAL LETTER OF THE HOLY NATIVITY OF CHRIST - 2018 BY THE GRACE OF GOD JOHN X PATRIARCH OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH OF ANTIOCH

Antioch Patriarchate

Pastoral Letter of the Holy Nativity of Christ - 2018

By the Grace of God
John X
Patriarch of the Orthodox Church of Antioch

MESSAGE OF HIS BEATITUDE THE PATRIARCH OF JERUSALEM THEOPHILOS III ON THE OCCASION OF CHRISTMAS 2018

Jerusalem Patriarchate 

ΤΟ ΧΡΙΣΤΟΥΓΕΝΝΙΑΤΙΚΟ ΜΗΝΥΜΑ ΤΟΥ ΑΡΧΙΕΠΙΣΚΟΠΟΥ ΑΘΗΝΩΝ ΚΑΙ ΠΑΣΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ ΙΕΡΩΝΥΜΟΥ

 Το Χριστουγεννιάτικο Μήνυμα του  Αρχιεπισκόπου Αθηνών και Πάσης Ελλάδος κ. Ιερωνύμου

PASTORALA DE CRACIUN 2018: INGERII ?I PASTORII VESTESC BUCURIA NATERII DOMNULUI

Patriarchate of Romanian 

Pastorala de Crăciun 2018 a Preafericitului Părinte Patriarh Daniel este intitulată „Îngerii și păstorii vestesc bucuria Nașterii Domnului”.

ΧΡΙΣΤΟΥΓΕΝΝΙΑΤΙΚΟ ΜΗΝΥΜΑ ΤΟΥ ΠΑΤΡΙΑΡΧΟΥ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΕΙΑΣ

Θ Ε Ο Δ Ω Ρ Ο Σ   Β’
ΕΛΕΩι  ΘΕΟΥ  ΠΑΠΑΣ  ΚΑΙ  ΠΑΤΡΙΑΡΧΗΣ 
ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΕΙΑΣ, ΠΑΣΗΣ ΓΗΣ ΑΙΓΥΠΤΟΥ ΚΑΙ  ΠΑΣΗΣ  ΑΦΡΙΚΗΣ 
ΠΑΝΤΙ  Τῼ  ΠΛΗΡΩΜΑΤΙ ΤΟΥ ΑΠΟΣΤΟΛΙΚΟΥ  ΚΑΙ  ΠΑΤΡΙΑΡΧΙΚΟΥ  ΘΡΟΝΟΥ  ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΕΙΑΣ
ΧΑΡΙΣ  ΚΑΙ  ΕΛΕΟΣ  ΚΑΙ  ΕΙΡΗΝΗ  ΠΑΡΑ ΤΟΥ  ΕΝ  ΒΗΘΛΕΕΜ  ΓΕΝΝΗΘΕΝΤΟΣ 
ΚΥΡΙΟΥ ΚΑΙ  ΘΕΟΥ  ΚΑΙ  ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ  ΗΜΩΝ ΙΗΣΟΥ  ΧΡΙΣΤΟΥ

ΠΑΤΡΙΑΡΧΙΚΗ ΑΠΟΔΕΙΞΙΣ ΕΠΙ ΤΟΙΣ ΧΡΙΣΤΟΥΓΕΝΝΟΙΣ 2018

 Greek-English-українська
ΠΑΤΡΙΑΡΧΙΚΗ ΑΠΟΔΕΙΞΙΣ
ΕΠΙ ΤΟΙΣ ΧΡΙΣΤΟΥΓΕΝΝΟΙΣ 2018
† ΒΑΡΘΟΛΟΜΑΙΟΣ
ΕΛΕῼ ΘΕΟΥ ΑΡΧΙΕΠΙΣΚΟΠΟΣ ΚΩΝΣΤΑΝΤΙΝΟΥΠΟΛΕΩΣ,
ΝΕΑΣ ΡΩΜΗΣ ΚΑΙ ΟΙΚΟΥΜΕΝΙΚΟΣ ΠΑΤΡΙΑΡΧΗΣ
ΠΑΝΤΙ Τῼ ΠΛΗΡΩΜΑΤΙ ΤΗΣ ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑΣ
ΧΑΡΙΝ, ΕΛΕΟΣ ΚΑΙ ΕΙΡΗΝΗΝ
ΠΑΡΑ ΤΟΥ ΕΝ ΒΗΘΛΕΕΜ ΓΕΝΝΗΘΕΝΤΟΣ ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ ΧΡΙΣΤΟΥ

ΧΡΙΣΤΟΥΓΕΝΝΙΑΤΙΚΟ ΜΗΝΥΜΑ ΑΡΧΙΕΠΙΣΚΟΠΟΥ ΑΛΒΑΝΙΑΣ 2018 - ΑΝΤΙΔΟΤΟ ΣΤΗΝ ΑΝΑΣΦΑΛΕΙΑ

ΟΡΘΟΔΟΞΟΣ ΑΥΤΟΚΕΦΑΛΟΣ ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΑΛΒΑΝΙΑΣ

THE ECUMENICAL CHRISTMAS LETTER FROM THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, JUSTIN WELBY

The Archbishop of Canterbury’s ecumenical Christmas letter to churches around the world

VIDEO: IN AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH RADIO SVOBODA, EMERITUS PATRIARCH FILARET SAID THAT HIS GOAL WAS NOT TO EXALT HIMSELF, BUT TO CREATE THE ONLY ORTHODOX CHURCH IN UKRAINE

In an exclusive interview with Radіo Svoboda, Emeritus Patriarch Filaret said that his goal was not to exalt himself, but to create the only Orthodox church in Ukraine

METROPOLITAN ANTONII (MAKHOTA): JOIN THE CREATION OF THE LOCAL ORTHODOX CHURCH IN UKRAINE

OPEN LETTER OF APPEAL BY METROPOLITAN ANTONII (MAKHOTA) THE ORTHODOX CHURCH OF UKRAINE TO THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ROC IN UKRAINE IN KHMELNITSKY OBLAST

KOCH: IL PUNTO SULL: ECUMENISMO

Che cosa significano per l’ecumenismo le recenti tensioni in seno all’ortodossia? Il dialogo tra il Vaticano e Mosca si è di nuovo raffreddato? Che influsso hanno lasciato la celebrazione dell’anniversario della Riforma nel 2017 e l’“evento-Lund”? E quali nuovi progetti sono in vista? Sono domande a cui il Presidente del Pontificio Consiglio per la promozione dell’unità, card. Kurt Koch, ha risposto in un’intervista a katholisch.de, pubblicata il 12 dicembre.

OLD WINE IN NEW BOTTLES: HOW BAD HABITS DERAILED UKRAINIAN CHURCH UNIFICATION – INTERVIEW WITH CYRIL HOVORUN

 Priests stand near the St. Sophia Cathedral in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, awaiting the start of the Unification Council. Photo: president.gov.ua

KOSTANTIN SIGOV: WE WANT UKRAINIAN AUTOCEPHALY AND END TO RUSSIAN EXPLOITATION OF RELIGION FOR POLITICAL PURPOSES

 by Caterina Zakharova

The great Ukrainian intellectual explains the reasons that push his people to demand independence from the patriarchate of Moscow. In Russia, state pressures and the exploitation of the Church are the order of the day. An independent Church would be a very important step towards the liberation of Ukraine from its Soviet past. But the problem is above all a spiritual one.

A NEW ORTHODOX CHURCH OF UKRAINE: FAQ

 St. Michael’s Monastery in Kyiv

  Nicholas Denysenko

On December 15, a unification council was held at St. Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv, Ukraine. Three Orthodox Churches existed in Ukraine until then: the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC), the Kyivan Patriarchate (KP), and the Moscow Patriarchate (MP).

HIS BEATITUDE SVIATOSLAV CONGRATULATED HIS BEATITUDE EPIPHANIJ

 

The official information resource of Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church 

At this significant moment, I extend my hand on behalf of our Church to you and all the Orthodox brethren, offering you to begin our path to unity, to the truth. Because the future of the Church, our people and the Ukrainian independent European state depends on how we today will cherish unity and overcome what separates us. God is the one who unites us ...

ΤΟ ΑΛΗΘΙΝΌ ΠΡΟΣΩΠΟ ΤΟΥ ΝΕΟΥ ΠΡΟΚAΘΗΜΕΝΟΥ ΤΗΣ ΟΥΚΡΑΝΙΑΣ

His Beatitude Metropolitan of Kyiv and all Ukraine Epiphany, with children at the feast of St. Nicholas
Η A. Μακαριότητα ο Μητροπολίτης Κιέβου και πάσης Ουκρανίας κ. Επιφάνιος, με παιδιά κατά την εορτή του Αγίου Νικολάου