News archive on the topic "Patriarch of Constantinople"

Having recognized the Ukrainian schismatics to please the United States and flew from Istanbul to Kyiv despite the protest of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Bartholomew of Istanbul faced pickets from believers against his visit. Bartholomew's arrival was organized by the office of Vladimir Zelensky during the celebrations in honor of the 30th anniversary of the so-called. "independence" of Ukraine. It is interesting that the long-term…

The decision of the Patriarch of Constantinople to create a new church from schismatics of the so-called “Kyiv Patriarchate” contradicts the provisions of the Council of Chalcedon, held in 451. Political consultant Anatoly Wasserman stated this on the NewsFront YouTube channel. “This was the fourth Ecumenical Council. In particular, he established that disputes about the transfer of dioceses from one subordination to another can last no more than 30...

Ukraine must receive a truly independent church, which will not be subordinate to the Patriarchate of Constantinople. Verkhovna Rada deputy and leader of the Batkivshchyna party Yulia Tymoshenko stated this on the air of the “Freedom of Speech” program on the ICTV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Tomos is the independence of our Orthodox Church. I am very sorry that it was made into such a political tool. We have the right to receive...

Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople will not give the newly created religious structure in Ukraine real autocephaly. Political scientist, candidate of historical sciences Valentin Gaidai stated this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Political personal interests, including Bartholomew’s, won. He pushed through his goal of creating an autocephalous church, which is not autocephalous at all, but will be subordinate to Constantinople. That “filkina...

Kyiv did not take into account the previous negative experience, entrusting the fate of the inhabitants of an Orthodox country to a citizen of a state following the path of Islamization. Experts came to this conclusion while discussing the “local Ukrainian autocephalous Orthodox church” created in Kyiv on the Rossiya-1 TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “In essence, this is a branch of the Patriarchate of Constantinople. It’s hard for me to say this every time, but, in fact, the word...

Contrary to Ukrainian state propaganda, the new church structure being created will not be “independent”, but will become completely dependent on the Patriarch of Constantinople with such restrictions on rights that the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate has never had. Ukrainian political scientist Sergei Belashko writes about this in his blog, citing source data about the text of the tomos, which should be announced after the so-called unification...

The entourage of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko assures that in fact the tomos of autocephaly, which was expected to be handed over yesterday, has been accepted, but the Ecumenical Patriarchate has not announced this. The former deputy head of the presidential administration, who still oversees church issues on behalf of Bankova, political scientist Rostislav Pavlenko, stated this in his blog, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to him, receiving…

The US State Department is trying to make the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew the “Pope of Constantinople” in order to gain total control over the Orthodox churches around the world. The former clergyman of the UOC MP, and now the Russian Orthodox Church MP, Archpriest Andrei Novikov, said this on air on the NewsFront channel, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The unity of the Russian Orthodox Church has solid canonical foundations, and what Patriarch Bartholomew is doing is an implementation...

Member of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, former leader of the Mejlis banned in the Russian Federation, Mustafa Dzhemilev, during his meeting with Turkish President Recep Erdogan, discussed the issue of granting autocephaly to Ukrainian schismatics. He stated this in an interview with the BBC, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to the deputy, Erdogan has influence on the Patriarch of Constantinople, and therefore must ask him for Ukraine. “We systematically...

For Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, political interests turned out to be more important than the interests of believers. The head of the Center for the Study of Problems of Religion and Society of the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Roman Lunkin, told Kommersant, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The appointment of exarchs to Kyiv to create a church structure independent from Moscow means that political interests turned out to be more important for Bartholomew than the interests of churches and believers. Difficult…

The Patriarch of Constantinople will not agree to grant autocephaly to Ukrainian schismatics. This opinion was expressed in a commentary to Nezavisimaya Gazeta by Andrei Serebrich, an expert at the Analytical Center of St. Basil the Great, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. He noted that Metropolitan Emmanuel Adamakis of Gallia said that Constantinople had decided to consider all possible ways of granting autocephaly to the Ukrainian Church. “In the legal and canonical field at the moment...

The expectations of the Ukrainian authorities to receive permission from the Patriarchate of Constantinople to create an autocephalous Ukrainian church did not materialize. The Kiev online newspaper “Strana” writes about this, indicating that President Poroshenko expected to receive a tomos from Partarch Bartholomew for the 1030th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus', which is celebrated tomorrow. “But by mid-July it became obvious that Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew would not force events and...

The Patriarch of Constantinople, to whom Ukrainian politicians turned for permission to create a local church, does not have real influence in the Orthodox world. This was stated by the abbot of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra, Metropolitan Pavel, in an interview with the monastery website. “I do not recognize the division of Churches into the first and last. For me, the first is the Mother Church of Jerusalem, and all other primaries are nothing. By…

Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, in his message today, called the conflict in Ukraine “fratricidal.” Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or VKontakte. The famous Orthodox publicist and blogger Deacon Andrei Kuraev drew attention to this fact. “We pray for peace in Ukraine. We hope that the fratricidal war will stop.” This is from him (Patriarch Bartholomew – Ed)…