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

ROC IN UKRAINE: UKRAINIAN PARLIAMENT PASSES BILL ON THE NAME OF MOSCOW PATRIARCHATE

On December 20, 2018, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted bill number 5309, voted for by 240 MPs. MPs from the Opposition Bloc voted against it.

Хто такий Епіфаній, митрополит Київський та всієї України: VIDEO

Ким є предстоятель нової Православної Церкви України, його біографія та як прийшов до сану митрополиту дивіться у відео 24 каналу

PRIMATE OF POLISH ORTHODOX CHURCH EXPRESSES SUPPORT FOR METROPOLITAN ONUFRIY OF KIEV AND ALL UKRAINE

His Beatitude Onufriy, Metropolitan of Kiev and All Ukraine, has received a letter from the Primate of the Polish Orthodox Church expressing concern over the crisis situation in the life of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church resulted from the unlawful actions of the Patriarchate of Constantinople.

ΕΠΙΣΚΕΨΗ ΤΟΥ ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΙΤΗ ΒΟΛΟΚΟΛΑΜΣΚ ΙΛΑΡΙΩΝΑ ΣΤΟ ΜΠΑΡΙ

Στο Μπάρι της Ιταλίας μετέβη από 18 έως 19 Δεκεμβρίου 2017, κατόπιν ευλογίας του Αγιωτάτου Πατριάρχη Μόσχας και Πασών των Ρωσσιών κ.κ. Κυρίλλου, ο Μητροπολίτης Βολοκολάμσκ Ιλαρίωνας, Πρόεδρος του Τμήματος Εξωτερικών Εκκλησιαστικών Σχέσεων του Πατριαρχείου Μόσχας.

I am grateful to the President and the Ecumenical Patriarch - due to their resolve we gained the Orthodox Church of Ukraine - His Holiness Filaret during the joint prayer with the President of Ukraine

President Petro Poroshenko took part in the divine service in the Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine in Ternopil.

THE EXARCHS OF ECUMENICAL PATRIARCHATE RECEIVE THE HIGHEST AWARD OF THE UKRAINIAN PARLIAMENT

EΠΙΣΗΜΗ ΣΕΛΙΔΑ ΤΟΥ ΠΑΤΡΙΑΡΧΕΙΟΥ ΤΗΣ ΜΟΣΧΑΣ: ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ & ΑΓΓΛΙΚΑ

 Russian Church launches English and Greek versions of official website

Η Επίσημη Σελίδα του Πατριαρχείου Μόσχας περιλαμβάνει την ελληνική και αγγλική γλώσσα

CYRIL HOVORUN: "IF THE CHARTER IS REVISED, TOMOS WILL BE REVIEWED - THE COUNCIL IS JUST THE BEGINNING OF THE BEGINNING

 

In interview on December 18, 2018, 11:44 of a well-known theologian, scholar, professor at the University of Loyola-Maryomount in Los Angeles, in the past, a researcher at Yale and Columbia University, an archimandrite, a clergyman of the UOC MP Cyril Hovorun, on Sunday after the Council of the Local Church was held.

NICHOLAS DENYSENKO: AFTER THE COUNCIL: CHALLENGES FACING THE ORTHODOX CHURCH OF UKRAINE

 The Wheel

 When Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko initially announced that the Ecumenical Patriarchate (EP) would grant autocephaly to the Orthodox Church in Ukraine, the promise seemed overconfident at best, and delusional at worst. For decades, global Orthodoxy has recognized the canonicity of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP), and dismissed the Kyivan Patriarchate (KP) and Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC) as uncanonical schismatics.

LEADER OF NEW UKRAINIAN CHURCH CALLS FOR END TO 'OCCUPATION' OF CRIMEA AND EASTERN UKRAINE

MUSLIMS OF UKRAINE EXPRESSED THEIR RESPECT AND READINESS TO COOPERATE WITH THE ORTHODOX CHURCH OF UKRAINE

The Muslims of Ukraine have attested to the spiritual affinity of Christians and Muslims and their readiness for cooperation, for the sake of the happy future of Ukraine. This is stated in the congratulatory message sent from the Mufti of Ukraine Said Ismagilov to the newly elected Metropolitan Epifaniy of Kyiv and All Ukraine.

Архімандрит Кирило Говорун: «Якщо буде переглянуто Статут, буде переглянуто Томос»

Це інтерв’ю із знаним богословом, науковцем, професором університету Лойола-Мерімаунт у Лос-Анджелесі, в минулому - науковим співробітником Йельського та Колумбійського університетів, архімандритом, священнослужителем УПЦ МП Кирилом Говоруном ми записували в неділю, одразу після проведення Собору Помісної церкви. Важливо було по «гарячих слідах» проаналізувати історичну подію; нові реалії, нею сформовані, розставити крапки над «і». До оцінок отця Кирила дослухаються як в Україні, так і далеко за її межами, оскільки сам він є фігурою глобального масштабу.
Відтак, в бесіді з LB.ua ми обговорили процес формування нової Помісної церкви, особливості її Статуту, внутрішні конфлікти передсоборного періоду, перспективи переформатування парафій Московського патріархату тощо. «Я б назвав це початком початку», - резюмує Говорун.

CARDINAL KOCH SAYS DIALOGUE CONTINUES DESPITE DIVISIONS

by Christa Pongratz-Lippitt

Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and Pope Francis meet in 2016 in Havana. Swiss Cardinal Kurt Koch (right) is greeting Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of external relations for the Russian Orthodox Church.