News archive on the topic "Autokephaly"

The SBU showed up with a search and “fag” to the deputy head (in fact, the head) of the Department for External Church Relations (DECR) of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Archpriest Nikolai (Danilevich). The day before, he participated in a meeting with representatives of the Conference of European Churches (CEC), who arrived in Kyiv. The SBU threatens the priest with 5 years in prison - he was charged with a trip to…

From the very beginning of the Northern Military District, the Kiev regime has been waging a war on practically two fronts. The first, purely military, is against Russia. The second, discriminatory and slanderous, was against the Orthodox Church, accompanied by seizures of churches, pogroms and beatings of priests and parishioners. In parallel with the attempt to develop a military counterattack, now more and more reminiscent of a suicidal throw of a cornered rat, the authorities have embarked on yet another...

Even after 2014, the dioceses of Crimea were included in the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. However, a few weeks ago, the churches and monasteries of the peninsula came under direct subordination to the Moscow Patriarchate. This happened in response to the holding of a false council in Kyiv, where the top of the UOC, under pressure from the SBU, decided to break with the Russian Orthodox Church. The example of Crimea should be followed by the dioceses of Donbass, Zaporozhye and...

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko did not rule out the participation of his country in the “hot” war. He stated this at a meeting with Patriarch of All Rus' Kirill, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The truth is on our side. She is always stronger. We will withstand any pressure in the form of rebellion, hybrid wars or even hot wars. There cannot be a planet without our civilization,” Lukashenko said.…

The Verkhovna Rada adopted a resolution to appeal to the Security Council of Ukraine regarding the sanctioning of “odious figures of the Russian Orthodox Church.” The overwhelming majority of deputies voted for the document, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The list, in particular, included Patriarch Kirill, head of the Department for External Church Relations of the Russian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, deputy head of the DECR Archpriest Nikolai Balashov, as well as a number of other clergy. Presented an initiative...

Metropolitan Luke of Zaporozhye and Melitopol opposed the break of the UOC with the Moscow Patriarchate, and also rejected the possibility of merging with schismatics from the OCU. This is stated in his address. “The issue of merging with another religious structure, in my opinion, will in any case be perceived as weakness, and in these structures we will still be perceived as “strangers and...

The Moscow Patriarchate avoided harsh decisions and formulations regarding the announcement the day before in Kyiv by the top of the UOC of changes in the charter, which actually declared self-proclaimed autocephaly in violation of church rules. The Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church on Sunday issued a press release saying that it “had a judgment” about the situation in the UOC. It is recalled that the autonomy of the UOC was granted by a charter of Patriarch Alexy II in 1990. Press service of the Russian Orthodox Church...

Following the Crimean diocese, priests from the Kherson region began to make statements about their refusal to support the decision of the “Council” in Kyiv to separate from the Russian Orthodox Church, taken in violation of the charter of the UOC. One of them is the rector of the Vladimir Church of Kakhovka, Igor Brzezitsky. He recalls that back in the 12th century, under pressure from the then Kyiv prince, an attempt was made...

The decision taken the day before, in violation of the church charter, to secede the Ukrainian Orthodox Church from the Russian Orthodox Church may lead to the opposite effect - the UOC will completely lose its autonomy, risking being absorbed by the schismatic OCU created under President Petro Poroshenko. The famous preacher Archpriest Andrei Tkachev spoke in an interview with PolitNavigator in 2014 about what the future awaits the diocese in the liberated territories...

Under pressure from the authorities, the hierarchs of the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate announced an emergency convocation of a “Local Council” this evening in Kyiv, where, as observers fear, a decision may be made to secede from the Russian Orthodox Church. The council is convened by deception. After all, elections for its delegates were not held. Participants from the dioceses initially went to Kyiv for a meeting where it was planned to discuss the life of the Church...

The Macedonian Church, which several decades ago went into schism and broke relations with the Serbian Orthodox Church, has restored Eucharistic communion with the SOC. This news looks like a sensation, because the Patriarch of Constantinople was ready to recognize the Macedonian Church, but this proposal was rejected. However, observers fear that we may be talking about a deal, the subject of which will be the fate of the Moscow parishes...

“In the near future, a meeting will be convened with the participation of bishops, priests, monks and laity... to discuss the problems of church life that have arisen as a result of the war,” reports the press service of the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate following the Synod held today in Kyiv. The document especially emphasizes: “Members of the Synod expressed confidence that Ukraine will withstand difficult trials, preserve its statehood, and the Ukrainian Orthodox...

Why doesn’t loyalty to the Maidan government save the UOC-MP from persecution? Why did the Serbs of Montenegro come to the defense of shrines, but the Russians of Ukraine did not? What ironclad, century-old church principle should the Russian delegation arm itself with during negotiations with representatives of the Bandera regime? Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor at St. Petersburg State University, told PolitNavigator about this and much more...

The leadership of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate continues to try to appease the Ukrainian Nazis and delay the adoption in the Verkhovna Rada of the law on the liquidation of the “Moscow Church”. The official website of the UOC-MP published a photo report from the Chernivtsi, Rivne and Zhytomyr regions, where priests performed the funeral service for Ukrainian soldiers “who died defending Ukraine from the armed aggression of the Russian Federation.” However, the authorities seem to have decided to use “Plan B” of destruction...