News archive on the topic "Metropolitan Pavel"

Against the backdrop of pressure on the UOC from the state and intelligence services, even its hierarchs with a dubious reputation are beginning to look decent. The director of the Agency for Social Communications, Sergei Belashko, said this on air on the First Cossack channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The expert cited the abbot of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra, Metropolitan Paul, as an example. “It turns out to be a paradoxical situation: those people who have never been...

On the eve of the non-canonical so-called in Kyiv. “unification council” to create a church structure controlled by Phanar and the Ukrainian authorities, the SBU increased pressure on the highest hierarchs of the canonical UOC, which refuses to take part in this, according to the Church’s definition, “illegal gathering,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. This time, the abbot of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra, Metropolitan Pavel, again fell under the “distribution” of Poroshenko’s special services. As the deputy stated...

Ukrainian security forces are conducting a search in the home of the rector of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, Metropolitan Pavel of Vyshgorod and Chernobyl. This was reported in the press center of the SBU, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The priest is suspected of a crime under Part 2 of Art. 161 (Violation of the equality of citizens depending on their race, nationality, religious beliefs, disability and other grounds). “Employees of the Security Service of Ukraine under procedural guidance...

The abbot of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra, Metropolitan Pavel of Vyshgorod and Chernobyl, announced the pressure exerted on him and the brethren by the authorities, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “There are many questions about whether the government’s actions are legal. These actions are not legal, pressure is being put on me - both threats and calls - and on many others. I can’t name the reasons, I…

The abbot of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, Metropolitan Pavel, asked believers to come to the Lavra on October 14 and support the monastery with prayer on the Feast of the Intercession of the Mother of God, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The believers, Metropolitan Pavel of Vyshgorod and Chernobyl, were invited to come to the Holy Dormition Kiev-Pechersk Lavra and prayerfully support the monastery on the Feast of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos (October 14),” according to the website of the information and educational department...

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…

Ukrainian nationalists are threatening to seize the rector of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra, Metropolitan Pavel. He told reporters about this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte According to the Metropolitan, right-wing radicals may attack the Lavra during the celebration of the Intercession on October 14-17. “We really hope that people will not raise their hands against the shrine and this will not happen...