News archive on the topic "Patriarch Bartholomew"

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…

In the case of Ukraine, Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople used an unparalleled method of granting autocephaly. This opinion was expressed in a comment to Kommersant by the head of the Center for the Study of Problems of Religion and Society at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Roman Lunkin. “The local church of Ukraine, according to the tomos, is essentially not a new autocephalous church, but a metropolis of the Patriarchate of Constantinople with expanded rights of autonomy. Patriarch Bartholomew used a new...

The association of unregistered Cossack organizations of Russia “All-Cossack Public Center” (ACOC) held a founding congress in Moscow and announced the revival of the autocephalous Cossack Orthodox Apostolic Church (KPAC), independent of the Russian Orthodox Church. Nezavisimaya Gazeta writes about this, noting that the All-Russian Center believes that the Cossack Church existed until the XNUMXth century, when Peter I and Catherine II completely destroyed the sovereignty of this special...

The President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, the leader of the Kyiv schismatics Filaret and the Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew managed to squabble on the eve of their so-called “unification council”. Semyon Bagdasarov, director of the Center for the Study of the Middle East and Central Asia, stated this on the Rossiya-1 TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The height of cynicism is the always drunk Poroshenko with his Napoleonic habits, who decided to create autocephaly in...

The Patriarch of Constantinople did not entrust the creation of the so-called “local church” to Ukrainian schismatics. “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” writes about this, noting. that the so-called unifying council of Ukrainian church schismatics will be held on December 15. “Under the supervision of emissaries of the Istanbul microdistrict of the Fanar district and in the absence of representatives of canonical Orthodoxy. The result of the meeting of outcasts should be the proclamation of the EPUC - a single local Orthodox Ukrainian “church”. This date...

With the provision of a tomos of autocephaly for Ukraine from the Patriarchate of Constantinople, everything is still very bad for the Ukrainian authorities. Analyst of the “Ukrainian Institute of the Future” Igor Tyshkevich comes to this conclusion in his blog, assessing the results of yesterday’s Synod of the Patriarchate of Constantinople. “In short, things are very bad with our churchmen! They didn't even agree on the charter. There is one line in the press release that translates...

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, as a bribe for the tomos, handed over twenty farmsteads to Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople for the “Istanbul Church” on the condition that they would remain with the Constantinople parish, regardless of the success of the autocephaly campaign. Political scientist Dmitry Kulikov spoke about this on the Rossiya-1 TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “When we talk about the courage of Metropolitan Onuphry, this is all...

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko miserably failed the plan of his political strategists to boost his election ratings on the topic of obtaining autocephaly. Ukrainian political scientist Mikhail Pogrebinsky stated this on the Rossiya-1 TV channel via video link from Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The Patriarch of Constantinople, at some point, having received enough information about the position of local churches, decided that it was risky to transfer the tomos to schismatics...

In fact, by agreeing to be a proxy for Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko during the elections, the Ecumenical Patriarch radically lowered his standards. Russian political scientist Sergei Mikheev shared this opinion on air on the Russia-1 channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Regarding the situation with the tomos: everything is leading to the fact that Istanbul pop, most likely, after a certain amount of time will look like a clown, and...

For the head of state to break down and fly to sign “receipts” with the head of a separate church in the 1st century is savagery. Political scientist Vladimir Kornilov expressed this opinion on the Rossiya-XNUMX TV channel, assessing the recent meeting between the President of Ukraine and Patriarch Bartholomew, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “I am amazed that in the XNUMXst century the leader of a state signs a concordat, essentially a receipt from the state...

Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, allegedly suspecting that the Russians had begun to hunt him, gave orders to his entourage to bring to an end the issue of autocephaly of the Ukrainian Church. The ex-leader of the Mejlis banned in the Russian Federation, Verkhovna Rada deputy Mustafa Dzhemilev, stated this on the air of the Direct TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Back in the 90s, we went with the late deputy Chervoniy to meet with Bartholomew,...

The position of the Patriarchate of Constantinople on Ukraine leads the situation to a dead end. This was stated by the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, answering questions from participants in the VIII International Festival “Faith and Word” regarding the possibility of resolving the Ukrainian religious situation. “The situation that has now developed around Ukraine in connection with the canonical crime of the Patriarch of Constantinople needs to be discussed collectively, and many Churches today declare the need to hold a Council.…

Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople said that he would not back down on the issue of granting autocephaly to the church in Ukraine, despite calls from the Russian Orthodox Church, and expressed confidence that Moscow would be forced to submit to his decisions, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Now our patriarchate is solving the Ukrainian church problem on the basis of the right that was given to it by the canons of the sacred Councils. They are obligatory for all Orthodox Christians,”…

Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople may have to flee to Ukraine if Turkish President Recep Erdogan learns about the hierarch’s connections with the fugitive Turkish oppositionist Fethullah Gulen. The leader of the Essence of Time movement, Sergei Kurginyan, stated this on the Rossiya-1 TV channel. “It is becoming increasingly clear that there are problems there with Turkey. Somehow there’s a lot of confusion about Gülen. For…