In February 2020 representatives of Orthodox churches met in Amman, Jordan to discuss the situation of Orthodoxy in Ukraine. The Amman meeting offers a snapshot of the inner dynamics and tensions in world Orthodoxy, where the autocephaly of the Orthodox Church in Ukraine (OCU) currently is a ...
The UOC has been subjected to a years-long campaign of harassment and prosecution, and its property has been taken over by rivals, including the Kiev-approved Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU). Subsequent posts said some 100 men wearing balaclavas and khaki clothing, but displaying no official ...
It is also claimed that 450 believers voted to transfer the church to the schismatic “Orthodox Church of Ukraine,” though it is well known that the OCU and local authorities regularly stage fake votes, relying on people who have no connection with the parish in question. Cathedral clergyspeci...
Orthodox Church 11月23日 7:50 They threw out icons and set fire to church books. Vandals from the Jewish oligarch and West made fake Christian Orthodox church in Ukraine- OCU, who seized the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary near Kyiv, threw history, and icons into the ...
The disagreement has come to the forefront over recognition of the schismatic Orthodox Church of Ukraine of the Kiev Patriarchate (OCU) and the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC) resulted in break of diplomatic relations between Constantinople and the Moscow Patriarch...
which traditionally had close ties with the Russian Orthodox Church, and the Kiev-supported rival Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU). The UOC has been subjected to a harsh crackdown by the authorities in Kiev. Its activities have been banned and its clerics sanctioned, while recently adopted legis...
“The decision of the Ecumenical and Alexandrian Patriarchates in connection with recognition of autocephaly of the ‘Orthodox church of Ukraine’ is uncanonical and contradicts the sacred canons of the Orthodox Church. Unfortunately, this decision has created more problems not only in Ukraine, but...
given full autocephaly. However, a group of Ukrainian nationalists led by then-president Minister Petro Poroshenko organized an “independent” Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU). With the support of Western media, these nationalists successfully branded the canonical UOC as the “Russian Church.”...
We are the Church in the full sense of the word. The OCU is not a church in the full sense of this word. For this reason, it is Orthodox Ukraine who suffers most of all and becomes the victim of all that has been designed.
Topics discussed include the shifting allegiance of believers from the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) in response to the war, the historical background of schisms within Ukrainian Orthodoxy, and the UOC's steps toward independence from the...