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Whom does the Ecumenical Patriarch want to bestow autocephaly to?

Tamar Lomidze

Source: Modern Diplomacy

May 5, 2018

President Petro Poroshenko and other high-ranked Ukrainian officials state that Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew is ready to create an autocephalous (independent) Orthodox Church in Ukraine. The new religious organization is said to be based on the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC) and Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyivan Patriarchate (UOC-KP), both of which haven’t been recognized by the Orthodox world...

The indifference of the UOC-KP clergy and episcopate to lawless actions committed in favor of their personal and corporate interests is incompatible with their high ministerial service, especially under the omophorion of His All-Holiness Bartholomew, the Archbishop of Constantinople-New Rome, the Ecumenical Patriarch.

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Tamar Lomidze

9/12/2018

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A statement was also released yesterday by the Synod of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR), an autonomous body within the Russian Orthodox Church, expressing their continuing support for His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry of Kiev and the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

Constantinople delegation snubs Ukrainian Church’s celebrations, instead meets with Poroshenko, says autocephaly is the goal

Constantinople delegation snubs Ukrainian Church’s celebrations, instead meets with Poroshenko, says autocephaly is the goal

Constantinople delegation snubs Ukrainian Church’s celebrations, instead meets with Poroshenko, says autocephaly is the goal

Constantinople delegation snubs Ukrainian Church’s celebrations, instead meets with Poroshenko, says autocephaly is the goal
While the stance of the Russian Orthodox Church, the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church under His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry of Kiev and All Ukraine, and the stance of all Local Autocephalous Churches around the world is quite clear on the matter, the stance of the EP itself is rather more murky, though a clear picture is perhaps slowly emerging, especially after the meeting between EP representatives and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko over the weekend.

50 parishes of Ukrainian Orthodox Church seized in recent years—Pat. Kirill

50 parishes of Ukrainian Orthodox Church seized in recent years—Pat. Kirill

50 parishes of Ukrainian Orthodox Church seized in recent years—Pat. Kirill

50 parishes of Ukrainian Orthodox Church seized in recent years—Pat. Kirill
According to His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, 50 parishes of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church have been forcefully seized by schismatics in recent years.