RESOLUTION ON UKRAINIAN CITIZENS ILLEGALLY DETAINED ON THE TERRITORY OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION AND IN THE OCCUPIED CRIMEA AND DONBAS

As a result of Russian Federation occupying the Crimea and starting the war in Donbas several hundreds of people were imprisoned, mostly because of their public nonviolent activities. Among them, there are: film director Oleg Sentsov, student Pavlo Hryb, human rights advocate Emir-Useiyin Kuku, a journalist from Donetsk Stanislav Asieiev, coordinator of Crimean Solidarity Server Mustafayev, farmer Volodymyr Balukh, university teacher Oleh Glaziuk and others.

ΕΚΔΗΛΩΣΕΙΣ ΤΙΜΗΣ ΚΑΙ ΜΝΗΜΗΣ ΓΙΑ ΟΣΟΥΣ ΑΓΩΝΙΣΤΗΚΑΝ ΔΙΑΧΡΟΝΙΚΑ ΓΙΑ ΤΗΝ ΑΥΤΟΚΕΦΑΛΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΟΡΘΟΔΟΞΗΣ ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑΣ ΤΗΣ ΟΥΚΡΑΝΙΑΣ

Εκδηλώσεις τιμής και μνήμης για όσους αγωνίστηκαν διαχρονικά για την αυτοκεφάλια της Ορθόδοξης Εκκλησίας της Ουκρανίας

METROPOLITAN JOHN OF PERGAMON LECTURE : «PATRISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE MODERN WORLD»

 Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Thyateira & Great Britain

On Saturday, 17 August, His Eminence Metropolitan John of Pergamon gave a lecture at the University of Notre Dame's London Global Gateway on the topic of "Patristic Anthropology and the modern world".

DARYA MELEKHOVA ON VESTI.FM: CONSTANTINOPLE’S TOMOS DID NOT HELP FILARET TO RETURN TO POWER

Ukrainian Metropolitan Filaret’s mistakes led to complete loss of power by him in the church world, even though the anathema was removed, the analyst of the federal news agency Vestnik Kavkaza, Darya Melekhova told in the National Question program on the Vesti.FM.

METROPOLITAN EPIPHANIUS, UWC REPRESENTATIVES DISCUSS EXPANDING COOPERATION

On August 15, 2019, the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, the Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine Epiphanius met with First Vice President of the Ukrainian World Congress Stefan Romaniw and Director of the UWC Mission to Ukraine Serhiy Kasyanchuk.

AN INDEPENDENT STATE NEEDS AN INDEPENDENT CHURCH“ THE FIGHT FOR CANONICAL INDEPENDENCE FOR UKRAINIAN ORTHODOXY

Tadeusz A. Olszański: “An independent state needs an independent Church“ The fight for canonical independence for Ukrainian Orthodoxy. OSW Commentary No. 272, 11.06.2018

PROTESTANTS AND THE UKRAINIAN GREEK CATHOLIC CHURCH: IN SEARCH OF INCLUSIVE SOLUTIONS

 

 Cherenkov, Mykhailo (2018) "Protestants and the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church: In Search of Inclusive Solutions," Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe: Vol. 38 : Iss. 2 , Article 3.

CYRIL HOVORUN, FOUNDATIONS OF POLITICAL THEOLOGY IN UKRAINIAN CONTEXT

Cyril Hovorun, “Foundations of Political Theology in Ukrainian Context.”, In Religion, State, Society, and Identity in Transition Ukraine, Oisterwijk: Wolf Legal Publishers, 2015, pp.281-298.

UKRAINIAN AUTOCEPHALY AND LOCAL CHURCHES: UNITY ABOVE ALL – OPED

By Jelena Rakocevic*, eurasiareview

It’s been more than six month since the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) was created and received autocephaly from the Ecumenical Patriarchate but scandals surrounding it don’t subside. On the one hand, the Ecumenical Patriarch’s authority in the Greek world remains incontestable.

ΔΙΕΥΚΡΙΝΙΣΕΙΣ ΓΙΑ ΤΙΣ ΑΠΟΨΕΙΣ ΜΟΥ ΓΙΑ ΤΟ ΟΥΚΡΑΝΙΚΟ ΖΗΤΗΜΑ

Ιερά Μητρόπολη Ναυπάκτου και Αγίου Βλασίου

Διευκρινίσεις γιά τίς ἀπόψεις μου γιά τό Οὐκρανικό ζήτημα
τοῦ Μητροπολίτου Ναυπάκτου καί Ἁγίου Βλασίου Ἱεροθέου

UKRAINIAN AUTOCEPHALOUS ORTHODOX CHURCH CEASES TO EXIST

Kiev, August 14, Interfax - The Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church has ceased to exist, Vekhovnaya Rada's official gazette announced today.

PILGRIMAGE VISIT BY BISHOP OLBIA EPIPHANIUS TO THE METROPOLIS OF LAGADA FOR THE FEAST OF THE DORMITION OF THEOTOKOS

Press service of the Kyiv Metropolitanate Ukrainian Orthodox Church (OCU) 

ΠΡΟΣΚΥΝΗΜΑΤΙΚΗ ΕΠΙΣΚΕΨΗ ΤΟΥ ΕΠΙΣΚΟΠΟΥ ΟΛΒΙΑΣ Κ. ΕΠΙΦΑΝΙΟΥ ΣΤΗΝ ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΗ ΛΑΓΚΑΔΑ ΓΙΑ ΤΗΝ ΕΟΡΤΗ ΤΗΣ ΠΑΝΑΓΙΑΣ

Разогнанные и очень обиженные

Как патриарх Кирилл сам создал себе мощную оппозицию в РПЦ, «уволив» почти всех членов своей прежней команды

После 10 лет патриаршества Кирилла (2009—2019) от его легендарной «команды мечты» почти ничего не осталось. Наиболее креативные члены «команды» (отцы Андрей Кураев и Всеволод Чаплин, Сергей Чапнин) перешли в открытую оппозицию,

NO DENOMINATION CAN HAVE AN EXCLUSIVE RIGHT TO SERVE IN SAINT SOPHIA IN KYIV, - THE HEAD OF THE UGCC

HIS BEATITUDE, METROPOLITAN TIKHON MEETS WITH HIS EMINENCE, ARCHBISHOP ELPIDOPHOROS

 The Orthodox Church in America

On Wednesday, August 14, 2019, His Beatitude, Metropolitan Tikhon met with His Eminence, Archbishop Elpidiphoros of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America. Having been in Cappadocia with His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew during the time of the enthronement of Archbishop Elpidiphoros, His Beatitude this was the first opportunity for His Beatitude to personally greet and congratulate His Eminence on his enthronement.

RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH OFFERS "RUSSIAN EXARCHATE" TO JOIN IT PRESERVING ITS STATUTE AND TRADITIONS

Moscow, August 12, Interfax - On Patriarch Kirill's behalf, head of the Patriarchal administration on foreign institutions Metropolitan Antony addressed the so-called "Russian exarchate" in Western Europe with a suggestion to join the Moscow Patriarchate.

Архімандрит Кирило Говорун: «В ідеальному випадку споживачем богословської освіти може бути кожен свідомий християнин»

У секулярному суспільстві ще існують стійкі стереотипи про богословську освіту, що це атавізм та пережиток. Натомість богослов’я продовжує відігравати важливу роль у самоусвідомленні Церкви. Якою і для кого має бути сучасна богословська освіта? Про це — бесіда з відомим українським православним богословом, професором Університету Лойоли Мерімаунт (Лос-Анджелес), архімандритом Кирилом (Говоруном).

CHURCH LEADERS IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE REMAIN SURPRISINGLY LOTH TO CONDEMN THEIR OLD ADVERSARY

The extraordinary events of 1989 are half-forgotten as clerics look elsewhere

Aug 11th 2019

THIRTY YEARS AGO, amazing events were unfolding on the eastern side of the Iron Curtain.

Ο ΑΡΧΙΕΠΙΣΚΟΠΟΣ ΑΜΕΡΙΚΗΣ ΜΕ ΤΟΝ ΓΕΡΟΝΤΑ ΕΦΡΑΙΜ ΤΗΣ ΑΡΙΖΟΝΑΣ

Archbishop of America Elpidophoros visits St. Anthony’s Greek Orthodox Monastery in Arizona

THE ARCHBISHOP OF THE ORTHODOX AUTONOMOUS CHURCH OF FINLAND AND THE LUTHERAN ARCHBISHOP OF FINLAND VISIT ECUMENICAL PATRIARCHATE

Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America 

© Photo by Nicholas Manginas / Ecumenical Patriarchate

August 13, 2019

A DELEGATION FROM THE STANDING CONFERENCE OF ORIENTAL ORTHODOX CHURCHES (SCOOCH) VISITS ARCHBISHOP ELPIDOPHOROS

 Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America

STATEMENT OF THE MEETING OF THE HEADS OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCHES IN DAMASCUS MOR APHREM MONASTERY, MAARAT SAYDNAYA – AUGUST 12, 2019

Antioch Patriarchate
Statement of the Meeting of the Heads of the Christian Churches in Damascus
Mor Aphrem Monastery, Maarat Saydnaya – August 12, 2019

REFLECTIONS ON AUTOCEPHALY BY A MEMBER OF THE UKRAINIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH OF THE USA

DR. GAYLE E. WOLOSCHAK, 'Reflections on Autocephaly by a Member of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USAReflections on Autocephaly by a Member of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA'', in  The Ecumenical Patriarchate and Ukraine Autocephaly, Evagelos Sotiropoulos, Editor, May 2019, ORDER OF SAINT ANDREW THE APOSTLE, ARCHONS OF THE ECUMENICAL PATRIARCHATE, pp. 73-76.

WHAT HAS KOREA TO DO WITH UKRAINE? RUSSIA’S TRAGIC ASSAULT ON KOREAN UNITY

FR. PERRY HAMALIS, 'What has Korea to do with Ukraine? Russia’s Tragic Assault on Korean Unity'', in  The Ecumenical Patriarchate and Ukraine Autocephaly, Evagelos Sotiropoulos, Editor, May 2019, ORDER OF SAINT ANDREW THE APOSTLE, ARCHONS OF THE ECUMENICAL PATRIARCHATE, pp. 27-34.

Η ΡΩΣΙΚΗ ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΠΡΟΤΕΙΝΕΙ ΣΤΟ «ΡΩΣΙΚΟ ΕΞΑΡΧΑΤΟ» ΝΑ ΕΝΤΑΧΤΕΙ ΣΤΟ ΣΩΜΑ ΤΗΣ

Η Ρωσική Ορθόδοξη Εκκλησία προτείνει στο «Ρωσικό Εξαρχάτο» να ενταχτεί στο σώμα της, διατηρώντας το Καταστατικό του και τις παραδόσεις του. Αναλυτικότερα εκ μέρους του Πατριάρχη Μόσχας και πασών των Ρωσιών κ.κ. Κυρίλλου ο επικεφαλής της Υπηρεσίας του Πατριαρχείου Μόσχας σε θέματα των ιδρυμάτων του εξωτερικού Μητροπολίτης Χερσονήσου και Δυτικής Ευρώπης κ. Αντώνιος απέστειλε επιστολή στο λεγόμενο «Ρωσικό Εξαρχάτο» στη Δυτική Ευρώπη να ενταχθεί στο σώμα του Πατριαρχείου Μόσχας.

OIKONOMIA FOR THE MAJORITY—AKRIVEIA FOR THE MINORITY

by John A. Heropoulos, publicorthodoxy

One of the Orthodox Church’s greatest strengths is the pastoral care used to nurture the faithful. 

L’IMPROBABILE AUTOCEFALIA NEI BALCANI

 

di: Lorenzo Prezzi

La propagazione tellurica provocata dal riconoscimento di autocefalia alla Chiesa ortodossa ucraina da parte di Costantinopoli (cf. SettimanaNews: L’Ortodossia, Ucraina e Parigi) e dal conflitto fra il patriarca di Mosca e quello del Fanar (Costantinopoli) ha messo in fibrillazione i luoghi di frizione fra le comunità, anche al di là del confronto fra i due patriarcati.

UKRAINIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH SEES GOOD SIGNAL IN ZELENSKY'S REMARKS AT MEETING WITH PATRIARCH BARTHOLOMEW

Kiev, August 8, Interfax - The Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) has expressed its contentment with today's meeting between President Vladimir Zelensky and the Patriarch of Constantinople in Istanbul.

ZELENSKY REFUSES TO SIGN JOINT ECOLOGY-RELATED DECLARATION WITH PATRIARCH BARTHOLOMEW

The meeting with Patriarch Bartholomew was an initiative of President Volodymyr Zelensky and experts assess this step of the President as a good sign and an attempt to establish good relations with Constantinople.

ECUMENICAL PATRIARCHATE CANONIZED SAINT LUKE OF SIMFEROPOL

 Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
Stavros Papagermanos, pressoffice@goarch.org

August 9, 2019

ΟΙ ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΟΛΟΓΙΚΕΣ ΜΕΤΑ-ΠΤΩΣΕΙΣ ΤΟΥ ΠΑΤΡΙΑΡΧΕΙΟΥ ΜΟΣΧΑΣ

Ιερά Μητρόπολη Ναυπάκτου

Οἱ ἐκκλησιολογικές μετα-πτώσεις τοῦ Πατριαρχείου Μόσχας
Μητροπολίτου Ναυπάκτου καί Ἁγίου Βλασίου Ἱεροθέου

ΣΟΒΑΡΑ ΠΡΟΒΛΗΜΑΤΑ ΑΝΤΙΜΕΤΩΠΙΖΕΙ Η ΟΡΘΟΔΟΞΗ ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΣΤΗΝ ΟΥΚΡΑΝΙΑ

4 Αυγούστου 2019 8:06 πμ | Πέγκυ Ντόκου, dimokratiki.gr

Στις 27 Ιουλίου 2019 στο Κίεβο, πραγματοποιήθηκαν εορταστικές εκδηλώσεις με αφορμή την παραμονή της 1031ης επετείου από την βάπτιση των Ρως και της εορτής του Αγίου Βλαδίμηρου, όπου συμμετείχαν 300.000 πιστοί από όλη την Ουκρανία καθώς και από άλλες χώρες.

VISIT OF THE PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE, VOLODYMYR ZELENSKY, TO THE ECUMENICAL PATRIARCHATE

Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America 

Greek-English

© Photo by: Nicholas Manginas - Ecumenical Patriarchate

PRESIDENT HAD A MEETING WITH THE ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH

 The Presidential Office of Ukraine

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy had a meeting with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I in Fener, Istanbul.

THE SERBIAN PATRIARCH RECEIVED THE APOSTOLIC NUNCIO

 Serbian Patriarchate

The Serbian Patriarch Irinej received His Excellency Lucan Suriani, Apostolic Nuncio in the Republic of Serbia, at the Serbian Patriarchate Palace in Belgrade on 7 August 2019.

UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT MEETS WITH ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH IN ISTANBUL

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has begun a meeting with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew in Istanbul, according to an Ukrinform correspondent.

REPRESENTATIVES OF OCU, CONSTANTINOPLE, AND VICARIATE OF FORMER UOC-KP IN USA, CANADA DECIDE ON VICARIATE'S STATUS

On July 30, 2019, an official meeting of Metropolitan Emmanuel, representative of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, Archbishop Yevstratiy, representative of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, and members of the former Vicariate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyiv Patriarchate in the USA and Canada – Fr. Victor Polarnyy, Fr. Oleksandr Dvinyatin, Fr. Roman Zagurski, Viktor Rud, Ivan Yaresko and Peter Palukh was held in Newark, New Jersey, Religion in Ukraine reports citing a Facebook account of Ivan Yaresko.

HOW CATHOLICS HAVE ALWAYS BELIEVED AND TAUGHT DEIFICATION

by Jared Ortiz, publicorthodoxy

Catholics, Protestants, and Orthodox all have an unfortunate habit of thinking that deification is somehow the exclusive provenance of the Orthodox. This claim is unfortunate not only because it has no basis in reality, but because it blinds us to the riches to be discovered in the tradition and because it slows down ecumenical progress.

Ο ΚΥΠΡΙΟΣ ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΙΤΗΣ ΕΙΝΑΙ ΟΡΓΑΝΟ ΡΩΣΙΚΗΣ ΠΡΟΠΑΓΑΝΔΑΣ;

Γράφει η Τατιάνα Ντερκάτς Γράφει η Τατιάνα Ντερκάτς - Cerkvarium Μετάφραση από τα ρωσικά: Αλέξανδρος Ρωμηόπουλος 

THE VOICE OF SILENCE: A MONASTIC VOICE ON THE UKRAINIAN QUESTION

 MOTHER ABBESS THEOXENI, ''The Voice of Silence: A Monastic Voice on the Ukrainian Question'', in  The Ecumenical Patriarchate and Ukraine Autocephaly, Evagelos Sotiropoulos, Editor, May 2019, ORDER OF SAINT ANDREW THE APOSTLE, ARCHONS OF THE ECUMENICAL PATRIARCHATE, pp. 7-10.