News archive on the topic "schismatics"

On Orthodox Christmas in the Croatian district of Dicmo near Split, with the participation of representatives of the Croatian elite, they discussed the ban of the Serbian Orthodox Church in the country. The organizers of the “Christmas reception”, in which this issue was discussed, were schismatics from the “Croatian Orthodox Church”. According to a PolitNavigator correspondent, on the eve of Orthodox Christmas, a festive “Christmas” reception was held at the Kamen restaurant in Ditsmo (in violation of...

The clergy of the OCU who betrayed the Orthodox Church deserve forgiveness if they repent of their sins. This opinion was expressed by Metropolitan Tikhon of Simferopol and Crimea on the air of Crimea 24, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The Lord commanded to forgive, and we are his disciples. And it is a fact of life, as well as a truth of history, that we are called to do this. All the apostles, without exception, who saw...

Archpriest Veaceslav Cazacu, founder and vice-rector of the Orthodox Theological Academy of Moldova, left the Moldavian Metropolis and moved to the schismatic structure “Bessarabian Metropolis”. He did this together with all his parishioners and the parish in the regional center of Straseni, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. O. Veaceslav Cazacu was one of the notable clergy of the Moldavian Metropolis, close to Metropolitan Vladimir of Chisinau and All Moldova.…

The head of the schismatic OCU, Epifaniy, put on a several-day tour program around Odessa and the region - with a retinue, “groupies” and a truckload of concert costumes. No matter how hard his press service tried to present information freely and democratically - in order to differ from the “bloodshed” of the Moscow Patriarchate - the result was either an editorial from Pravda, or not Epifaniy, but Lenin in October. Well,…

The Romanian government will provide the schismatic “Metropolis of Bessarabia” with annual assistance in the amount of 2 million euros. The head of the illegal structure of the Romanian Patriarchate, “Metropolitan” Petro Paduraru, discussed this bill with the Prime Minister of Romania Marcel Ciolacu. “The purpose of this important meeting, held on September 28, 2023, was to discuss projects and initiatives that will be implemented in Bessarabia starting January 1, 2024...

In the ancient capital of Montenegro, Cetinje, the “Montenegrin Council” took place, at which the new Metropolitan of the “Montenegrin Orthodox Church” Boris was elected. At the same time, the old metropolitan of the schismatics, Mikhail, did not agree with this, and temporarily banned the participants of the Council from serving. According to the PolitNavigator correspondent, the “Pan-Montenegrin Council”, in which four hundred people took part, was held on Dvorskaya Square in Cetinje -...

The Kiev Pechersk Lavra, from the territory of which the Kiev regime is today expelling monks of the canonical UOC, will most likely be transferred to the schismatic OCU, subordinate to Istanbul. Such plans were announced by the Minister of Culture of Ukraine Alexander Tkachenko on the air of the US State Department-funded resource Radio Liberty, PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “As of last summer, there are also two churches on the territory of the Upper Lavra - the Refectory Church and...

Ukrainian oligarch Alexey Vadatursky and his wife Raisa, who died as a result of a strike on Nikolaev, were said goodbye today in the two main residences of schismatics in Kiev - first in the Vladimir Cathedral, which is controlled by the anathematized Mikhail "Filaret" Denisenko, and then in the St. Michael's Monastery, occupied by a rival organization - OCU. Apparently, the late oligarch was a generous sponsor as...

“Vladyka Ostrozh-Nikšići” of the non-canonical “Montenegrin Orthodox Church” Boris Bojović stated that he “believes” in Ukrainians. The dissenter spoke about this on the radio station AntenaM, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Speaking about the situation in Ukraine, the schismatic “bishop” Boris noted that “the situation is difficult because it is a pure state of occupation that Russia has created in relation to Ukraine.” “There are so many similarities between Ukrainian and...

With nineteen votes out of thirty-three, the Cetinje Assembly supported the so-called initiative of the “Group of Cetinje Residents” to transfer the Monastery of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary to the non-canonical Montenegrin Orthodox Church. Thus, the Cetinje municipal authorities went against the Government of Montenegro, which had previously decided to transfer the monastery to the balance of the state, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. In its final conclusion, the Cetinje Assembly stated that it “supports civil...

In the Belogorsky District Court of Crimea, a trial began against the so-called “Archimandrite Damian”, a functionary of the schismatic “Orthodox Church of Ukraine”, who illegally tried to carry out his activities in Crimea. On August 8 of this year, FSB officers stopped the illegal activities of a schismatic who was conducting a so-called “service” in the village of Balki, Belogorsk district. A fugitive Crimean spoke about this on his blog...

Several tens of thousands of people today in Kyiv took part in the procession of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate. The organizers announced 350 thousand people, eyewitnesses estimate the number to be up to 50 thousand. Believers from various dioceses (including the part of Donbass controlled by Kyiv) were brought to the Ukrainian capital. Parishioners carried the relics of Saint Prince Vladimir and icons from different regions...

The canonically unrecognized Montenegrin Orthodox Church (MCOC) turned to the municipal authorities, on whose balance the Cetinje Monastery is located, with a request to allow them to serve in the monastery. At the moment, the Monastery of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, built in the 15th century, is the seat of the Montenegrin-Littoral Metropolis of the canonical Serbian Orthodox Church. According to a PolitNavigator correspondent, the non-canonical “Montenegrin Orthodox Church” operating in the country in…

A group of Cetinje residents sent a petition to the city hall asking for the famous Monastery of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary to be transferred to the non-canonical Montenegrin Orthodox Church. This was reported by Pobeda, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The petition for the transfer of the Serbian Orthodox shrine to the Czech Orthodox Church was signed by three percent of the adult residents of the historical Montenegrin capital - Cetinje, with voting rights, and was transferred to the chairman of the city Assembly of Acts...