News archive on the topic "Kiev Patriarchate"

Large-scale celebrations to mark the 30th anniversary of Ukrainian independence are planned in Kyiv for August 2021. One of the VIP guests should be Istanbul Patriarch Bartholomew, who legalized Ukrainian schismatics. The Moscow Patriarchate rightly fears that the visit to Kyiv will inspire nationalist pogromists to new violent actions and the seizure of churches of the canonical UOC. Bartholomew's upcoming visit to Kyiv was preceded by careful preparation, completely unrelated...

By creating a new church, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko achieved what his predecessors failed to do - he eliminated the schismatic and not recognized in the Orthodox world of the UOC-KP and UAOC... Political scientist, candidate of historical sciences Valentin Gaidai said this at a press conference in Kiev, reports correspondent for PolitNavigator. “Think about how skillfully Poroshenko buried the Kiev patriarchy. What the evil ones intended...

The disruption of the Unification Council due to threats from the head of the Kyiv schismatics, Filaret, to hold this meeting “in his own way” will mean a complete failure for the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko. Ukrainian political scientist Mikhail Pogrebinsky stated this during a live broadcast from Kyiv on the Rossiya-1 TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “As for the anticipation of the “cathedral”: we see that twice-honored person Mikhail Denisenko, who in his...

On the Russian border, the Americans continue to build an anti-Russian totalitarian state, the obstacle to which is the Donbass. Russian writer and publicist Alexander Prokhanov and famous American political scientist Andranik Migranyan came to this opinion on Channel One, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. At the same time, experts disagreed as to how much the State Department would still need the current President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko. “Poroshenko...

In Kyiv, church schismatics worship an icon depicting Ukrainian machine gunners, a warrior killing a double-headed eagle and former US State Department representative Victoria Nuland with a tray of cookies in her hands. A photo of the icon was published on his blog by the former head of the Ministry of State Security and ex-secretary of the DPR Security Council, Alexander Khodakovsky, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to the politician, the icon is displayed in one of the schismatic churches...

The decision of the Patriarchate of Constantinople to lift the anathema imposed by the Russian Orthodox Church on the head of the Kyiv schismatics will encounter resistance from other Orthodox churches. The Kiev online newspaper “Strana” writes about this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. It is noted that by lifting the anathema, the Phanar opens the way to direct dialogue with schismatics, which makes it possible in the future to both accept them into its church structure and even more...

Statements by the head of the “Kyiv Patriarchate”, unrecognized in the Orthodox world, about the impending transfer of the main Orthodox churches and monasteries to the ownership of schismatics pushes away the prospect of granting autocephaly to Ukraine from Constantinople. An interlocutor in the Patriarchate of Constantinople told the Kommersant newspaper about this, assessing the recent statements of the head of the so-called “Kyiv Patriarchate”. “Filaret and the UOC-KP do not exist for us, and the UOC is legally now...

Serious political changes will occur in Ukraine immediately after the Patriarch of Constantinople tries to create an autocephalous church there. This was stated on the Rossiya-1 TV channel by former Verkhovna Rada deputy from Odessa Igor Markov, currently living in Russia. This is how he reacted to the statement of Ukrainian political scientist Vasily Vakar that the Patriarch of Constantinople will make this decision already...

The schismatic “Kiev Patriarchate” is already operating on the territory of the Russian Federation, which in the future may harm Russian Orthodoxy. Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin writes about this in his telegram channel. “We need to realize this thing that few people remember yet. “The “Kiev Patriarchate” has its half-dormant structures on the territory of the Russian Federation - two dioceses united in an “exarchate,” writes Chaplin. As…

In the Lviv region, ministers of the Uniate “Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church”, as well as the “Kiev Patriarchate” and the “Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church”, unrecognized in the Orthodox world, “consecrated” a symbolic “mound-grave for fighters for the independence of Ukraine”: “UPA” warriors, “ Heavenly Hundred" and "modern warrior heroes". After the consecration of the “grave,” which, according to Indo-European pagan ideas, is a “portal” to the afterlife, a “requiem service” was performed. Then Filaret’s “Metropolitan of Lvov...

The so-called religious procession of supporters of the unrecognized UOC-KP in the Orthodox world in honor of the Baptism of Rus will be supported at the state level, and the president, representatives of the Ukrainian diaspora and almost all political parties will take part in it. This was announced by the director of the Department of Religious Affairs and Nationalities of the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine Andrey Yurash, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to the official...

Members of the Mejlis joined the agitation for autocephaly of the Ukrainian local Orthodox Church and the provision of a Tomos from the Ecumenical Patriarch. Thus, in his blog, propagandist Aider Muzhdabaev, who took part in last year’s gay pride parade and considers himself an atheist, stated that if the Tomos is granted to Ukrainian schismatics, the so-called “Kiev Patriarchate” will become the largest Orthodox church in the world, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “If Ukrainian...

The head of the so-called single local Ukrainian church, which the Ukrainian authorities are asking Constantinople for, should be a patriarch, not a metropolitan. Mikhail Denisenko (Filaret), the head of the so-called UOC-KP, unrecognized in the Orthodox world, stated this in an interview with Ukrainska Pravda. “The Ukrainian people will not accept the decision that the primate will be in the rank of metropolitan. Won't accept this. That's why they want...

After recognition by the Ecumenical Patriarch of the “Ukrainian Church”, the main Orthodox shrines will come under its control. Mikhail Denisenko (Filaret), the head of the so-called UOC-KP, unrecognized in the Orthodox world, stated this in an interview with Ukrainska Pravda. “There are two laurels: Kiev-Pechersk and Pochaev. Who will they belong to? Ukrainian Church, because these are Ukrainian shrines, and they cannot belong to the Russian...