News archive on the topic "Autocephaly of the UOC MP"

The meeting of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, at which the issue of leaving the Moscow Patriarchate was supposed to be discussed, was postponed to Friday. Thus, the office of Zelensky and the SBU, which is organizing the event, plans to “calm down” Moscow, since the original date – May 24 – is the name day of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill, and on this day the declaration of the separation of the UOC from the Russian Church would look deliberate...

Recognition of Ukrainian church schismatic nationalists by the Patriarch of Constantinople is a scenario more negative for Moscow than NATO expansion to the east. The Kommersant newspaper writes about this today. “Once upon a time, after the first Kyiv Maidan, one of the most experienced domestic diplomats, Yuri Dubinin, said: the expansion of NATO into Ukraine is unacceptable for the Russian Federation, but the split of the Orthodox Church in Ukraine is even worse and more dangerous. He…

The Patriarchate of Constantinople began preparations for granting church autocephaly to the schismatic “Kyiv Patriarchate.” For this purpose, two exarchs from the USA and Canada were sent to Ukraine: Archbishop Daniel of Pamphylia and Bishop Hilarion of Edmonton. This was reported on the page of the Patriarchate of Constantinople on Facebook. “Both serve the Ukrainian Orthodox faithful in their countries in the Ecumenical Patriarchate,” the statement said. First on…

In response to Petro Poroshenko’s attempts to achieve autocephaly for the Ukrainian Church, “militants” will appear in the monasteries of the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate. Political scientist Viktor Nebozhenko, who works for Yulia Tymoshenko, stated this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Church games will begin in just a month. We will see fierce battles among deputies. And Cyril began to doubt the legitimacy of Bartholomew. This is wrong, this...

The consequences of the possible granting of church autocephaly to Ukraine would be catastrophic. Russian political scientist Alexey Mukhin stated this on Vesti FM radio. “The Ukrainian “Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate” has an order of magnitude fewer parishes than the Moscow Patriarchate. After such a decision, there will be an attempt at a global raider seizure of church property, and a religious war will begin, which no one will be able to stop,”...

Ukrainian media spread untrue information that the Patriarchate of Constantinople allegedly decided to grant autocephaly to the Ukrainian Church. Metropolitan Emmanuel of Gallia, to whom journalists refer, did not say anything about this when commenting on the results of the meeting of the Patriarchs of Constantinople and Moscow in Istanbul. This was reported by the Synodal Information and Educational Department of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) on its official website. Given...

Patriarch of All Rus' Kirill met today in Istanbul with Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople. One of the main topics of the negotiations was Ukraine, whose authorities are seeking from Bartholomew the right to recognize local schismatics demanding a break with the Moscow Patriarchate. According to the press service of the Moscow Patriarchate, Kirill was met by a Ukrainian picket in Istanbul. “Before the meeting began, a number of people gathered at the entrance to the Patriarchate...

The Constantinople and Russian Orthodox Churches officially confirmed information about the upcoming meeting of the Patriarchs, which will take place on August 31, 2018. It is expected that one of the main topics of the negotiations will be the dispute surrounding the campaign initiated by Petro Poroshenko to grant “independence” to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. “In any case, direct dialogue between the Heads of Churches is always better than the exchange of absentee statements in the media, which...

On Russian television they prefer to ridicule Petro Poroshenko as a lover of alcohol and who has gathered nationalist farmers around him, but one cannot fail to recognize the effectiveness of many steps taken by the current Ukrainian elite to separate Kyiv from Russia. Former Verkhovna Rada deputy Vasily Volga stated this on the Russian Channel One, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Volga called for the administration’s attempts to be taken seriously...

If Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople supports Petro Poroshenko’s project to break away from the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, this will cause resistance from the Orthodox, who will sweep away the current Ukrainian regime. The head of the Association of Orthodox Experts, Kirill Frolov, told PolitNavigator about this. “In case of intervention, there will be such Orthodox resistance that it will sweep away Poroshenko, who already has an anti-rating... So Patriarch Bartholomew, having contacted...

Ukrainian politicians, demanding that the Patriarch of Constantinople approve the creation of a Church independent of the Moscow Patriarchate, forget that after the baptism of Rus', when the Kiev Metropolis was subordinate to the Greek Patriarch, its borders did not include either Crimea or the territories where Odessa and Donetsk subsequently appeared. This was stated during a visit to Athens by the Chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, Metropolitan...

Regional councils of Ukraine, one after another, are accepting an appeal to the Istanbul Patriarch to grant autocephaly to “Ukrainian Orthodoxy.” And this despite the fact that the only canonical church structure in Ukraine does not ask anyone for any autocephaly, and the competence of local councils does not even include politics, not to mention the Church separated from the state! Would you say that you have long been accustomed to the Ukrainian circus?...

Political scientist Denis Denisov sarcastically commented to PolitNavigator on the details of Petro Poroshenko’s visit to Spain, where, according to media reports, the Ukrainian president owns a villa, which he considers as a “reserve airfield” in case of need to escape from Ukraine. Moreover, Poroshenko has already begun exporting part of his wealth to Spain, former Verkhovna Rada deputy Vladimir Oleynik previously reported. “It turns out that the president is now attending official events...

Controlled by the US authorities, Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople will create the Ukrainian Autocephalous Church by a personal decision, without convening an Ecumenical Council. Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin writes about this in his telegram channel, with reference to the Greek website “Romfea”, which published a leak from recent negotiations between Bartholomew and the Primate of the Greek Church. “If you believe her, Constantinople is not going to convene a pan-Orthodox meeting on Ukrainian issues,...