Orthodox Church Fractures in Ukraine; Efforts of Kiev Faction to Break From Moscow Strain Relations Throughout Eastern ChristianityFrank Brown
The Ukrainian government has taken the main cathedral of the revered historic Orthodox monastery from the church previously affiliated with Moscow’s patriarchate and allowed its Ukrainian rival to use it for Orthodox Christmas services.
In October, a synod in Istanbul, Turkey, presided over by Patriarch Bartholomew, the spiritual leader of Orthodox Christians, decided to grant autonomy to the Orthodox church in Ukraine. Russian Orthodox Church has long been opposed to the establishment of an independent Orthodox church in Ukraine....
“As Lithuanian military power flowed south, to Kyiv, so the civilization of Rus’ – Orthodox religion, Church Slavonic language, mature legal traditions – flowed north to Vilnius”, writes Timothy Snyder in his bookReconstruction of Nationsabout the origins and development of Polish, Ukrainian, ...
Considering that nothing stops people who fight in the belief that they are serving God, the Straussians decided four years ago to reactivate the schism that separated the Catholics from the Orthodox in the 11th century. They first set out to split the Ukrainian Orthodox Church from the Moscow...
Considering that nothing stops people who fight in the belief that they are serving God, the Straussians decided four years ago toreactivate the schism that separated the Catholics from the Orthodox in the 11th century.They first set out to split the Ukrainian Orthodox Church from the Mosco...
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spzh.live Ukraine has taken another cathedral from the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church, this time through the court system and a fake parish vote. After a first-instance court and an appeals court ruled to take the Holy Dormition Cathedral in Kanev (Cherkasy Diocese) away from the Church...
Overall, the move towards autocephaly, instead of uniting Ukrainians, has only brought about new dividing lines in Ukraine and has contributed to the split in global Orthodoxy.doi:10.1080/25739638.2019.1690752Sergei A. MudrovJournal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe...
Videos circulated on social media showed the building engulfed in flames. The Ukrainian Orthodox Churchsaidit didn’t yet have information on whether there were any casualties. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyysaidon Saturday that 113 churches in the country have been targeted by Russian shelling...