Прес-реліз щодо підсумків засідання Священного Синоду УПЦ (ПЦУ)

 Press service of Kyiv Metropolitanate Ukrainian Orthodox Church

24 Червня 2019

24 червня 2019 р. у історичному Будинку Митрополита на території Святої Софії Київської відбулося чергове засідання Священного Синоду Української Православної Церкви (Православної Церкви України). У засіданні взяли участь всі члени Синоду окрім Почесного Патріарха Філарета (без поважної причини) та архієпископа Донецького і Маріупольського Сергія (з поважної причини).

METROPOLITAN TIKHON GUEST OF ECUMENICAL PATRIARCHATE AT ANNUAL PILGRIMAGE TO CAPPADOCIA

 Orthodox Church in America

Orthodox Christian faithful who trace their roots to Cappadocia filled the Church of the Mother of God here on the Sunday of All Saints—June 23, 2019—as His All-Holiness, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople and His Beatitude, Metropolitan Tikhon concelebrated the Divine Liturgy.

Η ΙΕΡΑ ΣΥΝΟΔΟΣ ΑΦΑΙΡΕΣΕ ΑΠΟ ΤΟΝ ΦΙΛΑΡΕΤΟ ΤΗΝ ΔΙΟΙΚΗΣΗ ΤΗΣ ΕΠΑΡΧΙΑΣ ΚΙΕΒΟΥ

Γραφείο ρεπορτάζ: Ρομφαία

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STATEMENT BY THE PRESS SERVICE OF THE KYIV METROPOLITANATE OF THE UKRAINIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (OCU) CONCERNING THE MEETINGS HELD AT ST. VOLODYMYR’S CATHEDRAL IN KYIV ON JUNE 20, 2019

Press service of Kyiv Metropolitanate Ukrainian Orthodox Church 

Statement by the Press Service of the Kyiv Metropolitanate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (OCU) concerning the meetings held at St. Volodymyr’s cathedral in Kyiv on June 20, 2019

INTERVIEW OF THE METROPOLITAN OF KIEV AND ALL UKRAINE EPIPHANIUS (Video)

 Новое Время

 Συνέντευξη του Μητροπολίτη Κιέβου και πάσης Ουκρανίας κ.κ. Επιφανίου

DISPATCHES FROM THE WESTERN FRONT THE FUTURE OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCHES IN WESTERN EUROPE

by Paul Ladouceur, Public Orthodoxy

With all the attention devoted to the Eastern Front (the Ukraine) in the trench warfare between the Ecumenical Patriarchate (EP) and the Moscow Patriarchate (MP) for preeminence in Orthodoxy, the Western Front is largely ignored.

OCU: FILARET’S ASSEMBLY HAS NO EFFECT FOR OCU -- IT IS NOT SPLIT

"The assembly that gathered today at Flilaret’s personal will has neither legal nor canonical effects for the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

IL SALUTO E LA GRATITUDINE DEL PATRIARCA BARTOLOMEO AGLI ORGANIZZATORI DEL CONVEGNO DELLA PONTIFICIA FACOLTA TEOLOGICA DELL’ITALIA MERIDIONALE CON LA PARTECIPAZIONE DI PAPA FRANCESCO

Al Reverendissimo p. Pino Di Luccio, Vice- Preside della Pontificia Facoltà Teologica dell’Italia Meridionale – Sezione San Luigi a Napoli, figlio amato della nostra Modestia, grazia e pace dal Signore nostro Gesù Cristo e da noi benevolenza.

«ΔΕΝ ΥΠΑΡΧΕΙ ΔΙΑΙΡΕΣΗ ΣΤΗΝ ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΟΥΚΡΑΝΙΑΣ»

«H αυτοκέφαλη Ορθόδοξη Εκκλησία της Ουκρανίας θα συνεχίσει το έργο της και τις προσπάθειές της» ανακοίνωσε η Ορθόδοξη Εκκλησία της Ουκρανίας, σχολιάζοντας τις αποφάσεις του επίτιμου Πατριάρχη Κιέβου, κ. Φιλάρετου να αποχωρήσει. Αναφέρει δε, ότι πρόκειται για μια μικρή ομάδα πιστών που δεν αλλάζει την πορεία της ανεξάρτητης εκκλησίας.

THE AUTOCEPHALOUS CHURCHES AND THE INSTITUTION OF THE ‘PENTARCHY’

 Ἱερὰ Μητρόπολη Ναυπάκτου καὶ Ἁγίου Βλασίου

The Autocephalous Churches and the Institution of the ‘Pentarchy’
Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos and St Vlassios

Translation of the article in Greek Οἱ Αὐτοκέφαλες Ἐκκλησίες καί ὁ θεσμός τῆς «Πενταρχίας»

OUT OF OVER 40 BISHOPS, TWO ATTEND FILARET'S 'COUNCIL'

In St Volodymyr's Cathedral of Kyiv, on the initiative of ex-Patrairch Filaret, an assembly involving several hierarchs, priests and lay people of the former UOC-Kyiv Patriarchate started, which participants call a "Local Council."

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.

«ΑΝΟΙΓΜΑ» ΣΤΟΥΣ ΝΕΟΥΣ ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΟΥΚΡΑΝΙΑΣ

Η Ορθόδοξη Εκκλησία της Ουκρανίας θα πρέπει να ανταποκριθεί στις προκλήσεις της εποχής, οπότε είναι έτοιμη να «κάνει τις απαραίτητες σύγχρονες προσαρμογές» στις δραστηριότητές της.

SCISMA ORTODOSSO: UNO SPIRAGLIO

 

di: Lorenzo Prezzi

Fino a quando potrà durare il precario equilibrio delle Chiese ortodosse davanti al pericolo in atto dello scisma?

Тиждень до «собору» Філарета: чи є у помісної церкви план «В»?

CHIESA ORTODOSSA D’UCRAINA: EQUILIBRI PRECARI

Claudia Bettiol , eastjournal.net

Questo articolo è frutto di una collaborazione con Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso

Da KIEV – Solo pochi mesi fa gli ucraini festeggiavano l’indipendenza religiosa dal Patriarcato di Mosca con la conquista del rinomato tomos e con la nascita della nuova Chiesa ortodossa autocefala d’Ucraina.

Ο ΠΡΩΗΝ ΚΙΕΒΟΥ ΦΙΛΑΡΕΤΟΣ ΜΕΤΑΞΥ ΘΕΟΛΟΓΙΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΒΙΟΛΟΓΙΑΣ

Του θεολόγου Γιώργου Βλαντή,
Φως Φαναρίου

Διευθυντή (Geschäftsführer) του Συμβουλίου των Χριστιανικών Εκκλησιών της Βαυαρίας (ACK Bayern)

HOLY WARS: ORTHODOX CHURCH OF UKRAINE IN CRISIS

Natalia Lebed, 112.international

June 20, 2019, Patriarch Filaret plans to hold a local church council, which should restore the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate (UOC-KP)

METROPOLITAN EPIFANIY: FILARET TO PUNISH HIMSELF IF HE HOLDS LOCAL COUNCIL

Metropolitan Epifaniy of Kyiv and All Ukraine believes that if Patriarch Enmeritus Filaret holds the so-called Council of the Kyiv Patriarchate, he will punish himself, which will result in his isolation from the Orthodox Church of Ukraine. He said it on the Radio NV, according to Ukrinform.

KIEV ORTHODOX THEOLOGICAL ACADEMY

 

 Митрополит Епіфаній:

 Kiev Orthodox Theological Academy held the 26th edition, where diplomas of state standard received almost 80 applicants of higher education in the specialty "theology". I am sure that our graduates will be good shepherds of the autocephalous Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

ARCHBISHOP OF OHRID AND METROPOLITAN OF SKOPJE JOVAN HOMILY ON THE OCCASION OF THE 1000 YEAR JUBILEE SINCE THE FOUNDATION OF THE OHRID ARCHBISHOPRIC

Ιερά Αρχιεπισκοπή Αχρίδος

Greek-English

Archbishop of Ohrid and Metropolitan of Skopje Jovan
Homily on the occasion of the 1000 year jubilee since the foundation of the Ohrid Archbishopric

THE REGIME OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH

  Holy Metropolis of Nafpaktos and Agios Vlasios

Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos and St Vlassios

 Translation of the article in Greek Τό πολίτευμα τῆς Ὀρθοδόξου Ἐκκλησίας

METROPOLITAN EPIFANIY ON CONFLICT WITH FORMER UOC-KP PRIMATE: WE WANT OCU TO BE MANAGED CONCILIARLY, NOT BY ONE PERSON

Patriarch Emeritus Filaret wants to be the sole beneficiary of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, said Metropolitan Epifaniy on Radio NV.

THE GIFT OF OVERCOMING BARRIERS ELUDES THE WORLD’S ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS

 ERASMUS, economist

Squabbles between churches in Ukraine, Russia and Turkey are bound up in global politics

OCU WARNS FILARET OF POSSIBLE EXCOMMUNICATION FOR HOLDING UOC-KP COUNCIL

The Orthodox Church of Ukraine representatives emphasize that Filaret has no right to convoke such an assembly on his own behalf and call it a 'Council'. This is reported by ZN.

O ΠΑΤΡΙΑΡΧΗΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΕΙΑΣ ΣΤΟ ETHNOS.GR: ΔΕΝ ΕΧΟΥΜΕ ΤΗΝ ΠΟΛΥΤΕΛΕΙΑ ΝΑ ΕΙΜΑΣΤΕ ΔΙΧΑΣΜΕΝΟΙ

ΜΑΡΙΝΑ ΖΙΩΖΙΟΥ, ethnos.gr

Ο ιεράρχης που έχει αναπτύξει σηµαντική ιεραποστολική δράση στη Μαύρη Ηπειρο µιλά για το ζήτηµα του Αυτοκέφαλου της Ουκρανικής Εκκλησίας και την πρόταση που προωθείται για συνάντηση του Προκαθήµενου της Ορθοδοξίας µε τον Πατριάρχη Μόσχας

Η ΑΥΤΟΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΟΥΚΡΑΝΙΑΣ ΓΙΑ ΖΗΤΗΜΑΤΑ ΚΑΝΟΝΙΚΟΤΗΤΟΣ

Official information
In connection with the spread of allegations of foreign media to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine regarding the participation in the Liturgy on May 25, 2019, among more than 150 сongragation members of archimandrite Boris, who now belongs to the not recognized by Ecumenical Patriarchate jurisdiction in Montenegro, the following is reported.
Before receiving the Patriar

THE SOVIET GENEALOGY OF “ORTHODOX MORALITY”

by Regula Zwahlen

The term “Orthodox morality”—in combination with “traditional values”—is unquestionably a neologism.

ΑΡΙΣΤΕΙΔΗΣ ΠΑΝΩΤΗΣ: Ἡ ἐφαρμογὴ στὸν 20ο αἰώνα τῶν δικαίων καὶ προνομίων τοῦ Οἰκουμενικοῦ Θρόνου στὴν καθ’ ἡμᾶς Ἀνατολή

Ο Οικουμενικός Πατριάρχης Γερμανός Ε' αναγνώρισε τον Μόσχας Τύχωνα στην δύσκολη
περίοδο του 1918

ΣΥΜΒΟΛΑI ΕΙΣ ΤΗΝ ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑΣΤΙΚΗΝ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑΝ ΤΗΣ ΑΧΡΙΔΟΣ (PdF)

+ΓΕΡΑΣΙΜΟΥ I. ΚΟΝΙΔΑΡΗ
Τακτικού Καθηγητοΰ τής Γενικής ’Εκκλησιαστικής 'Ιστορίας
καί τής 'Ιστορίας τής έν 'Ελλάδι Εκκλησίας
έν τω Πανεπιστημίω ’Αθηνών

ΣΥΜΒΟΛΑI
ΕΙΣ ΤΗΝ ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑΣΤΙΚΗΝ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑΝ
ΤΗΣ ΑΧΡΙΔΟΣ

Η ΑΓΙΑ ΚΑΙ ΙΕΡΑ ΣΥΝΟΔΟΣ ΚΑΤΕΤΑΞΕ ΣΤΟ ΑΓΙΟΛΟΓΙΟ ΤΟΝ ΑΓΙΟ ΛΟΥΚΑ ΚΡΙΜΑΙΑΣ ΤΟΝ ΙΑΤΡΟ

Φως Φαναρίου

ΟΙΚΟΥΜΕΝΙΚΟΝ ΠΑΤΡΙΑΡΧΕΙΟΝ 

Ἁγία καί Ἱερά Σύνοδος 

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.