Archive of news on the topic "Metropolitan Onuphry"

On April 29, near the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, an attempt was made to attack His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry. This happened after he left the Church of Agapit of Pechersk, where he celebrated the All-Night Vigil. A group of radicals hanging out near the entrance to the Lower Lavra rushed to the head of the UOC, shouting “Onuphry for exchange!”, “Saboteurs in robes!” and “Shame!” The subdeacons, believers,… managed to prevent the attack.

The Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (in canonical unity with the Moscow Patriarchate), Metropolitan Onufry of Kiev congratulates Vladimir Zelensky on his victory in the presidential elections and reminds him of the importance of observing the principle of non-interference in the affairs of the church, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. This is stated in his congratulatory letter to Zelensky, reports the information and educational department of the UOC. “I am sure that your service as President of Ukraine...

Metropolitan Onuphry of Kiev and All Ukraine met at his residence in the Kiev Pechersk Lavra with the chairman and representatives of the OSCE Election Observation Mission, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. This was reported by the Information and Educational Department of the UOC. The meeting was attended by the Head of the Mission, Ambassador Peter Theiler, and political analyst Jarek Domanski, as well as the Deputy Head of the External...

Petro Poroshenko asked the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Onufry of Kyiv, to facilitate the release of Ukrainian sailors who were detained by Russia for violating the border, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. This was reported by Poroshenko’s press service. “Yesterday and the day before yesterday I spoke with the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, His Beatitude Onuphry. I asked him to immediately contact Moscow in order to...

The Ukrainian government should not try to subjugate the church in order to fulfill its own political orders. The Primate of the UOC-MP, His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry, spoke about this in an interview with the magazine “Pastor and Flock,” the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “He who believes in God, but is fixated on the desire to gain the Local Church, does not entrust himself to God, but lives according to his own mind. At…

Verkhovna Rada deputy and ex-Azov militant Igor Mosiychuk confirmed information that during the three-day meeting of the Synod of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, which is due to end tomorrow in Istanbul, official Kyiv will not receive the so-called. “Tomos” is an approval of the independence of the church structure from Moscow, which is what Ukrainian nationalists were counting on. Mosiychuk writes about this on his blog, openly reporting…

Through social networks controlled by schismatics of the “Kyiv Patriarchate”, the idea of ​​murdering the Kyiv Primate of the UOC, Metropolitan Onufry, is being thrown in. Crimean journalist Konstantin Knyrik stated this on the Russian TV channel TVC. “I monitored social networks controlled by Filaret schismatics. They have this segment that is very developed, like any pro-American institution. There is a very scary idea being promoted there today that it would be advisable...

Patriarch Bartholomew does not have the right to send his exarchs to Ukraine, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. This was stated on Friday by the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC), Metropolitan Onufriy. “The Patriarchate of Constantinople sent two of its exarchs to Ukraine. This is anti-canonical, that is, a non-canonical action of the Church of Constantinople. She has no right to send her legates, her exarchs to our independent church,”...

The clergy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate prays for Russia and its army. President Petro Poroshenko stated this during a military parade on the occasion of “Independence Day of Ukraine,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The body cannot be free when the soul is in captivity. Let us be heard today in Constantinople, and in Moscow, and in the Vatican. We have a solid...

A scandal erupted in Ukrainian social networks related to the support of the canonical UOC by outstanding Ukrainian boxers. The indignation of the anti-Russian public was caused by one of the last posts of the two-time Olympic champion and world champion among professionals Vasily Lomachenko. “The largest religious procession in Ukraine to mark the 1030th anniversary of the baptism of Rus' will take place on Friday, July 27 in Kyiv. Together with Metropolitan Onuphry, tens of thousands...

The Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Onuphry, appealed to the Kyiv city authorities with a request not to hold the so-called “March of Equality” in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “For centuries, our children and great-grandfathers sacredly preserved and passed on to their descendants family values, family traditions built on the commandments of God. The institution of family - as a union of a man and a woman, was established...

The Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Onuphry, on behalf of the Holy Synod, addressed the episcopate, clergy, monasticism and laity about initiatives regarding “granting the Tomos of autocephaly to the Orthodox Church in Ukraine,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to the UOC Information Center, the appeal was made public today at the residence of the Primate of the UOC on the territory of the Holy Dormition Kiev Pechersk Lavra during a meeting of the Holy Synod.…

The Ukrainian Orthodox Church will always follow the canonical order of church life. This was stated by the Primate of the UOC (MP), Metropolitan Onuphry, in his sermon on May 16. “Today, some politicians offer us options for church life - these are crooked paths that lead to no one knows where. We have always followed the straight path to God, and now we will follow this path: by maintaining the purity of faith,...

On May 8, 2018, Metropolitan Onufry of Kiev and All Ukraine received a delegation from the US Embassy in Ukraine led by Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch at the latter’s request. According to the information and educational department of the UOC, “during the meeting, issues of interfaith relations were discussed.” “Metropolitan Onuphry, among other things, expressed his fundamental conviction that the restoration of the unity of Ukrainian Orthodoxy should occur exclusively...