THE GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH STOPS SHORT ON UKRAINIAN AUTOCEPHALY. FILARET PROMISES BATTLE

by Vladimir Rozanskij, asianews

Archbishop Hyeronimus II of Greece and Metropolitan Epiphanius of Kiev gathered together in Constantinople to pray for the feast of St. Bartholomew. "Prudence" in the recognition of autocephaly. Patriarch Filaret accuses Epiphanius of "selling out authority to Constantinople".

ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH BARTHOLOMEW CELEBRATED HIS NAME’S DAY

 Ecumenical Patriarchate Permanent Delegation to the World Council of Churches

“The Phanar is always a source of light and hope. And it does not blow out, nor with the winds blowing from East and West, nor with the winds blowing ice today from the steppes of the North” said the Ecumenical Patriarch at Vespers while celebrated his name’s day at the Monastery of Baloukli, in the presence of the Archbishop of Athens and all Greece and the Metropolitan of Kiev and all Ukraine.

ARCHBISHOP YEVSTRATIY (ZORYA): TERMS OF TOMOS WERE KNOWN WELL BEFORE UNIFICATION COUNCIL

In 2008, the Ecumenical Patriarchate offered to provide the Ukrainian Churches a partial autonomy that envisages the status of a Metropolia.

AN ECUMENISM OF BLOOD: BOKO HARAM AND THE CHRISTIAN MARTYRS OF NIGERIA

Public Orthodoxy

by Ezekiel Olagoke

Over the last thirty years, Nigeria has been plagued with numerous terrorist upheavals that have sometimes bordered on the apocalypse, of which Boko Haram is one.

WOMEN AND THE DIACONATE A DEBATE THAT WON'T GO AWAY

Pope Francis greets Sister Carmen Sammut, president of the International Union of Superiors General, in 2016 (CNS photo/L'Osservatore Romano)

Massimo Faggioli professor of theology and religious studies at Villanova University.

THE CHURCH OF BULGARIA DIFFERS FROM METROPOLITAN DANIEL’S OF VIDIN VIEW

The Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Church met today, Wednesday, June 12, under the presidency of Patriarch Neophyte of Bulgaria.

FR. JOHN CHRYSSAVGIS: THEOLOGICAL FORMATION AND ECOLOGICAL AWARENESS”

HALKI SUMMIT III
(Istanbul, June 1-3, 2019)
“Theological Formation and Ecological Awareness”
Fr. John Chryssavgis

CONSTANTINOPLE, MOSCOW AND UKRAINE. WHO IS VIOLATING ORTHODOX UNITY?

A collaborator of Patriarch Bartholomew speaks on the clash with the Partriarchate of Russia for the concession of autocephaly to the Church of Kiev

Fr. John Chryssavgis *

ΤΟ ΟΥΚΡΑΝΙΚΟ ΖΗΤΗΜΑ ΟΠΩΣ ΤΟ ΑΝΑΛΥΕΙ Ο ΕΓΚΡΙΤΟΣ ΚΑΘΗΓΗΤΗΣ Κ. ΒΛΑΣΙΟΣ ΦΕΙΔΑΣ

1. Τό ζήτημα τῆς κανονικῆς δικαιοδοσίας στή Μητρόπολη Κιέβου

Ὁ θεσμός τῆς αὐτοκεφαλίας τῶν κατά τόπους Ὀρθοδόξων Ἐκκλησιῶν συνδέεται ἀρρήκτως μέ μία αὐστηρή περιγραφή ἀφ’ ἑνός μέν τῶν ἐδαφικῶν ὁρίων τῆς κανονικῆς δικαιοδοσίας κάθε αὐτοκέφαλης Ὀρθοδόξου Ἐκκλησίας, ἀφ’ ἑτέρου δέ τῆς κανονικῶς καθιερωμένης στήν Ὀρθόδοξη Ἐκκλησία ἐκκλησιολογία τῆς τοπικῆς Ἐκκλησίας.

ΤΟ ΘΕΜΑ ΤΟΥ ΑΥΤΟΚΕΦΑΛΟΥ ΕΙΝΑΙ ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑΣΤΙΚΟΝ ΓΕΓΟΝΟΣ ΚΑΙ ΟΧΙ ΑΞΕΣΟΥΑΡ ΤΗΣ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΚΗΣ” (11 ΙΟΥΝΙΟΥ 2019)

 Οικουμενικο Πατριαρχείο

Ομιλία του Οικουμενικού Πατριάρχου, που εορτάζει τα ονομαστήριά του, μετά τη Θ.Λειτουργία στον Πατριαρχικό Ναό, παρουσία του Μητροπολίτη Κιέβου και πάσης Ουκρανίας, και εκπροσώπων Αυτοκεφάλων Εκκλησιών

''ΟΙ ΑΥΤΟΚΕΦΑΛΕΣ ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΕΣ ΚΑΙ Ο ΘΕΣΜΟΣ ΤΗΣ «ΠΕΝΤΑΡΧΙΑΣ» ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΙΤΟΥ ΝΑΥΠΑΚΤΟΥ ΚΑΙ AΓΙΟΥ ΒΛΑΣΙΟΥ IΕΡΟΘΕΟΥ

 Ἱερὰ Μητρόπολη Ναυπάκτου καὶ Ἁγίου Βλασίου

Τόν τελευταῖο καιρό μέ ἀφορμή τό Οὐκρανικό ζήτημα γράφηκαν πολλά, θετικά καί ἀρνητικά, ἀπό ὅποια πλευρά καί ἄν τό ἐξετάση κανείς, κυρίως ἔγινε ἰσχυρότατη κριτική στό Οἰκουμε­νικό Πατριαρχεῖο.

Ο ΑΘΗΝΩΝ ΙΕΡΩΝΥΜΟΣ ΚΑΙ Ο ΚΙΕΒΟΥ ΕΠΙΦΑΝΙΟΣ ΣΤΑ ΟΝΟΜΑΣΤΗΡΙΑ ΤΟΥ ΟΙΚΟΥΜΕΝΙΚΟΥ ΠΑΤΡΙΑΡΧΗ (ΦΩΤΟ)

Φως Φαναρίου 

Ο ΑΡΧΙΕΠΙΣΚΟΠΟΣ ΑΘΗΝΩΝ ΚΑΙ ΠΑΣΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ ΣΤΟ ΟΙΚΟΥΜΕΝΙΚΟ ΠΑΤΡΙΑΡΧΕΙΟ

 Ecumenical Patriarchate

The Archbishop of Athens and All Greece in the Ecumenical Patriarchate

Ο Αρχιεπίσκοπος Αθηνών και πάσης Ελλάδος στο Οικουμενικό Πατριαρχείο

Епіфаній, митрополит Київський і всієї України, предстоятель ПЦУ

 Епіфаній, митрополит Київський і всієї України, предстоятель ПЦУ

Ієрархи підтримали не лише мене, їх об’єднала ідея майбутнього церкви

 ukrinform

TOO SOON FOR A PATRIARCHATE?

Andrew Sorokowski

…the Kyivan patriarchate envisioned in the 1620s was conceived as a joint Uniate-Orthodox entity, remaining in communion with both Rome and Constantinople. Forces on both sides sank this ambitious dream. Could it be revived today?

OCU HEAD: WE ARE READY TO ESTABLISH VICARIATE FOR ROMANIAN-LANGUAGE PARISHES

The main liturgical language in the Orthodox Church of Ukraine is Ukrainian, but national minorities can use in their communities the language that is their native and is comprehensible to them. Metropolitan Epifaniy of Kyiv and all Ukraine, Head of the OCU said it in an interview with UKRINFORM.

ΤΑ ΣΕΠΤΑ ΟΝΟΜΑΣTHΡΙΑ ΤΟΥ ΟΙΚΟΥΜΕΝΙΚΟΥ ΠΑΤΡΙΑΡΧΟΥ

ΑΡΧΙΕΠΙΣΚΟΠΟΣ ΚΩΝΣΤΑΝΤΙΝΟΥΠΟΛΕΩΣ, ΝΕΑΣ ΡΩΜΗΣ ΚΑΙ ΟΙΚΟΥΜΕΝΙΚΟΣ ΠΑΤΡΙΑΡΧΗΣ

ARCHBISHOP OF CONSTANTINOPLE-NEW ROME, ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH BARTHOLOMEW

Η Γ’ ΟΙΚ. ΣΥΝΟΔΟΣ ΚΑΙ ΤΟ ΑΥΤΟΚΕΦΑΛΟ ΤΗΣ ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΚΥΠΡΟΥ

Του π. Παναγιώτη Θεοδώρου – Θεολόγου

Γράφουμε, αγαπητοί μας αναγνώστες, με αφορμή τα 1588 χρόνια από τη σύγκληση της Γ’ Οικουμενικής Συνόδου στην Έφεσο και της επικύρωσης του Αυτοκεφάλου της Εκκλησίας της Κύπρου από την εν λόγω Οικουμενική Σύνοδο.

Ο ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΙΤΗΣ ΒΟΛΟΚΟΛΑΜΣΚ Κ. ΙΛΑΡΙΩΝ ΣΤΟΝ ΜΑΚΑΡΙΩΤΑΤΟ ΠΡΟΚΑΘΗΜΕΝΟ ΤΗΣ ΑΠΟΣΤΟΛΙΚΗΣ ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑΣ ΚΥΠΡΟΥ

 Εκκλησία Κύπρου

Την Κύπρο επισκέφθηκε το Σάββατο, 8 Ιουνίου 2019 ο Πρόεδρος του Τμήματος Εξωτερικών Σχέσεων του Πατριαρχείου Μόσχας, Σεβ. Μητροπολίτης Βολοκολάμσκ κ. Ιλαρίωνας.

ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH MET THE NATIONAL UNION OF JOURNALISTS OF UKRAINE

 Ecumenical Patriarchate Permanent Delegation to the World Council of Churches

On 31 May, 2019, His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew received a delegation from the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine at the headquarters of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Istanbul.

SISTER VASSA'S INTERVIEW W FR. CYRIL HOVORUN

 

This week, Sister Vassa interviews Professor Fr. Cyril Hovorun of Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles:

PATRIARCH DANIEL ABOUT CREATION: DO NOT DEFORM IT! DO NOT DESECRATE IT! DO NOT DESTROY IT!

 Patriarchate of Romania

Each year, on June 8, we mark the World Oceans Day in order to recall the importance of oceans and the way they influence human life and the entire planet.

WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES RESPONDS TO MISLEADING MEDIA REPORTING ON UKRAINE

Photo: Albin Hillert/WCC

World Council of Churches  

The WCC responds to misleading media reporting on Ukraine; World Council of Churches does not interfere or comment on internal discussions in the Orthodox family.

UKRAINE'S CRISIS OF RELIGION

Volodymyr Zelensky is Ukraine’s best chance for reducing church tension, promoting inter-confessional dialogue.

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

MOSCOW WANTS A PAN-ORTHODOX MEETING TO OVERCOME THE UKRAINIAN CRISIS

Vladimir Legoyda, Chairman of the Department for Society and Relations with the Mass Medias of the Russian Orthodox Church

Interview with Vladimir Legoyda, the Head of the Russian church’s Synodal Department for Church, Society and Media Relations claims that the Moscow Patriarchate is not dominated by Putin and expresses gratitude for the discretion of the Pope and the Holy See in the face of recent intra-Orthodox controversies: “There was not a single comment from the Roman Catholic Church that would interfere or make the situation worse”

Gianni Valente, lastampa

rome

IMPORTANCE OF CHURCH-STATE COOPERATION IN THE EUROPEAN CONTEXT

 Patriarchate Romania

Opening address by His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel of Romania at the International Conference on the relations between the State and religious denominations in the European Union, at the Palace of the Patriarchate, Friday, June 7, 2019.

DEFENDER OF THE FAITH? HOW UKRAINE’S ORTHODOX SPLIT THREATENS RUSSIA

 

 Policy Brief Kadri Liik, Momchil Metodiev, and Nicu Popescu
30th May, 2019,

ARCHON SYMPOSIUM FOCUSES ON 'REVIVING THE FEMALE DIACONATE IN THE ORTHODOX CHURCH: HAS THE TIME COME?'

 

 ARCHON SYMPOSIUM FOCUSES ON 'REVIVING THE FEMALE DIACONATE IN THE ORTHODOX CHURCH: HAS THE TIME COME?'

METROPOLITAN HILARION VISITS THE WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES IN GENEVA

Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, general secretary of the WCC, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk and Rev. Mikhail Gundyaev, permanent representative of the ROC at the WCC. Photo: Ivars Kupcis/WCC
 World Council of Churches
05 June 2019

Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Russian Orthodox Church Department of External Church Relations, visited the WCC at the Ecumenical Centre in Geneva on 5 June, during a visit to Switzerland.

ΑΠΟ ΤΑ ΟΙΚΟΛΟΓΙΚΑ ΤΟΥ ΟΙΚΟΥΜΕΝΙΚΟΥ ΠΑΤΡΙΑΡΧΟΥ

 Ecumenical Patriarchate

Ο Παναγιώτατος, ο οποίος βρίσκεται στην Ι.Μονή Αγίας Τριάδας Χάλκης,όπου συστεγάζεται η ιστορική Θεολογική Σχολή, είχε την ευκαιρία να χαρεί σήμερα τον όμορφο και ολάνθιστο κήπο της, και να ευλογήσει ένα νεογέννητο κατσικάκι αλλά και το νεογέννητο γαϊδουράκι, το οποίο ονόμασε Δάφνη!

MESSAGE OF ROMANIAN PATRIARCH DANIEL AT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE “THE POSITIVE DIMENSION OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM”

 Romania Patriarchate

Speech of His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, at the International Conference The Positive Dimension of Religious Freedom: How can governments support religious organizations, Palace of the Patriarchate, Thursday, 6 June 2019, 17.00 hours:

PATRIARCH OF SERBIA VISITING OUR SYRIAC ORTHODOX CHURCH

  Syrian Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch

On June 2, 2019, His Holiness Patriarch Mor Ignatius Aphrem II, Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, Head of the Universal Syriac Orthodox Church, received His Holiness Irinej, Archbishop of Peć, Metropolitan of Belgrade and Karlovci, and Serbian Patriarch, at the Patriarchate Headquarters in Bab Touma – Damascus.

ΤΟ ΠΟΛΙΤΕΥΜΑ ΤΗΣ ΟΡΘΟΔΟΞΟΥ ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑΣ

Ιερά Μητρόπολη Ναυπάκτου 

Τό πολίτευμα τῆς Ὀρθοδόξου Ἐκκλησίας

τοῦ Μητροπολίτου Ναυπάκτου καί Ἁγίου Βλασίου Ἱεροθέου

POPE FRANCIS: ‘YOU HAVE A GREAT PATRIARCH’

 Romania Patriarchate

On his return flight from Romania, Pope Francis expressed his appreciation for the Romanian Patriarch Daniel.

ΑΡΧΙΕΠΙΣΚΟΠΟΣ ΙΕΡΩΝΥΜΟΣ: ''ΥΠΑΡΧΕΙ ΑΔΙΑΦΟΡΙΑ ΓΙΑ ΤΟ ΠΡΟΒΛΗΜΑ ΤΟΥ ΠΕΡΙΒΑΛΛΟΝΤΟΣ''

Εκκλησία Ελλάδος

Συμπληρώθηκαν εφέτος σαράντα επτά χρόνια από την 5η Ιουνίου 1972, οπόταν άρχισαν οι εργασίες της πρώτης Παγκόσμιας Συνόδου για το Περιβάλλον στην Στοκχόλμη, στο πλαίσιο διασκέψεως των Ηνωμένων Εθνών.

KEYNOTE ADDRESS by His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew at the Opening Session of Halki Summit III (Istanbul Intercontinental Hotel, June 1, 2019)

 Ecumenical Patriarchate

Your Eminences,
Distinguished speakers and participants,
Esteemed guests,
Χριστός Ἀνέστη! Christ is Risen!

PATRIARCHATE OF ANTIOCH : STATEMENT BY THE ANTIOCHIAN ORTHODOX MEDIA CENTER BALAMAND, JUNE 1, 2019

Antioch Patriarchate

Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East
Statement by the Antiochian Orthodox Media Center
Balamand, June 1, 2019

OBSERVATIONS ON THE ORTHODOX CHURCH OF UKRAINE & THE UKRAINIAN GRECO-CATHOLIC CHURCH

Full remarks by Right Rev. Dr. Andriy Chirovsky on The Orthodox Church of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Православна церква України) and the Ukrainian Greco-Catholic Church (Українська греко-католицька церква), University of St. Michael's College, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, 28 May 2019.

EATING DISORDERS AND THE CASE FOR OPEN COMMUNION

by Katherine Kelaidis

Before I go any further, let me say, I know the arguments for “closed communion,” that is, the practice of allowing only Orthodox Christians who have prepared through confession and fasting and have received the blessing of a spiritual father to receive the Eucharist.