MHΤΡΟΠΟΛΙΤΟΥ ΝΑΥΠΑΚΤΟΥ ΙΕΡΟΘΕΟΥ: Ο ΟΡΟΣ «ΑΥΤΟΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ»

Ιερά Μητρόποκις Ναυπάκτου 

Ὁ ὅρος «Αὐτοκέφαλη Ἐκκλησία»
τοῦ Μητροπολίτου Ναυπάκτου καί Ἁγίου Βλασίου Ἱεροθέου
Τό κείμενο σέ μορφή PDF

METROPOLITAN HILARION MEETS WITH PRIMATE OF GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH

 The Russian Orthodox Church. Department for External Church Relations

June 26, 2019 – Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations (DECR), who is in Greece with a blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, visited the office of the Holy Synod of the Greece Orthodox Church at Petraki Monastery in Athens.

CYRIL HOVORUN: PATRISTICS AND SOCIOLINGUISTICS

Cyril Hovorun ¹, Patristics and Sociolinguistics in Scrinium

UCRAINA E ORTODOSSIA: INDOMABILE FILARETE

di: Lorenzo Prezzi

La nuova Chiesa ortodossa ucraina autocefala è in crescenti difficoltà e minaccia di implodere, mentre, sul versante dell’Ortodossia mondiale, i timidi segnali di ricucitura dopo la frattura Mosca-Costantinopoli vanno proseguendo.

THE PRIMATE OF OCU DISCUSSED THE RELIGIOUS SITUATION WITH THE RABBI JONATHAN MARKOVICH

  Press service of Kyiv Metropolitanate Ukrainian Orthodox Church

Предстоятель обговорив релігійну ситуацію з рабином Йонатаном Марковичем

NATIONALISM AND THE LOCAL CHURCH: THE SOURCE OF ECCLESIASTICAL CONFLICT IN THE ORTHODOX COMMONWEALTH

Daniel P. Payne, Nationalities Papers , The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity, Pages 831-852 | Published online: 06 Nov 2007.

AUTOCEPHALY: A DELAYED TRANSITION FROM EMPIRE TO NATIONAL STATE?

Dareg Zabarah, Autocephaly: A Delayed Transition from Empire to National State?Acta Slavica Iaponica, Tomus 33, pp. 47‒65

FILARET REMAINS IN OCU, TWO RUSSIAN BISHOPS EXCLUDED, SYNOD'S DECISION

The Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, which took place today, June 24, adopted a decision to subordinate all parishes and monasteries of Kyiv to the Primate of the OCU, Metropolitan Epifaniy. Until recently, they had been subordinated to Patriarch Emeritus Filaret.

ORTHODOXY AND NATIONALISM IN RUSSIAN ORTHODOXY

D. Kalkandjieva,  Paper conference on “Ecclesiology and Nationalism in the Postmodern Era” held in the Volos Academy for Theological Studies (Greece), on May 24–27, 2012,

WHY ARE ORTHODOX CHURCHES PARTICULARLY PRONE TO NATIONALIZATION AND EVEN TO NATIONALISM?

V. Makrides, "Why are Orthodox Churches Particularly Prone to Nationalization and even to Nationalism?“, St Vladimir’s Theological Quarterly 54/3-4 (2013) 325-352

NATIONALISM, STATISM AND ORTHODOXY

Davor Džalto,  ST VLADIMIR’S THEOLOGICAL QUARTERLY Volume 57, Number 3–4 2013

MIDDLE EAST ORTHODOX PRIMATES TO MEET AGAIN IN NICOSIA

 Romania Patriarchate

The four Primates of the Autocephalous Orthodox Churches in the Middle East will meet a second time in Nicosia in the near future in an effort to find a solution for the ecclesial issue of Ukraine.

The Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria addressed for the first time the issue of granting autocephaly to Ukraine in an interview with the Greek newspaper Ethnos.

THREE YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE HOLY AND GREAT COUNCIL OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH

 Patriarchate Romania

Three years ago, primates and hierarchs of ten local Orthodox Churches gathered on the island of Crete for the Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church, a long-awaited meeting of Orthodox bishops.

ΤΗΕ WUPPERTAL CALL: KAIROS FOR CREATION H EKKΛΗΣΗ ΤΟΥ WUPPERTAL: ΚΑΙΡΟΣ ΓΙΑ ΤΗ ΔΗΜΙΟΥΡΓΙΑ (Εnglish-Greek)

ΤΗΕ WUPPERTAL CALL: KAIROS FOR CREATION

H EKKΛΗΣΗ ΤΟΥ WUPPERTAL: ΚΑΙΡΟΣ ΓΙΑ ΤΗ ΔΗΜΙΟΥΡΓΙΑ

(Εnglish-Greek)

English original

Kairos for Creation - Confessing Hope for the Earth

The Wuppertal Call

“If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, pray, seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land” - 2 Chron. 7:14.

ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH'S DELEGATION IN ROME FOR THE FEAST OF STS. PETER AND PAUL

English- Italiano
ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH'S DELEGATION IN ROME FOR THE FEAST OF STS. PETER AND PAUL

ΟΙ ΤΑΛΑΙΠΩΡΙΕΣ ΤΩΝ ΟΡΘΟΔΟΞΩΝ ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΩΝ ΣΤΑ ΒΑΛΚΑΝΙΑ ΚΑΤΑ ΤΗΝ ΠΕΡΙΟΔΟ ΤΟΥ ΜΕΣΟΠΟΛΕΜΟΥ (1923-1940)

Η παλαιά Μητρόπολη του Βουκουρεστίου

Αριστείδης  Πανώτης                                                                                                         

Άρχων Μ. Ιερομνήμων της Μ.τ.Χ.Ε. 

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

---

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