On September 7, 2018, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople sent two exarchs, one from the U.S. and another from Canada, to Kiev in order to initiate the process of "legitimatizing" a schismatic "autocephalous" church in the Ukraine, breaking its former promises not to do any such thing, and without any consultation with the existing canonical Church, which constitutes the vast majority of practicing Orthodox Christians in Ukraine.
Because of the lack of information on Ukrainian Church history and reality available in English, and the resulting misinformation being spread, OrthoChristian.com will be gathering articles on the subject in this section. We hope also by this to help our readers understand why this move violates our Church canons and accepted traditions.
News
- Ukrainian Church lawyer warns of increased persecution following peace conference
- Ukrainian MP congratulates imprisoned employees of the Union of Orthodox Journalists with International Journalist Day
- Former Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) deputy head: There are no legal grounds for banning the Ukrainian Orthodox Church
- Odious Pochaev Lavra inspection postponed due to visit by OCA head, Metropolitan Tikhon
- Cyber-attacks on the Svyatogorsk Lavra
- Russian Synod forbids concelebration with Bulgarian hierarchs who concelebrated with schismatics
- “Let them sue St. Luke himself”—UOC hierarch being prosecuted for quoting St. Luke of Simferopol
- Kiev will check dozens of churches for “legality of use”
- Bulgarian priests and faithful denounce episcopal concelebration with Ukrainian schismatics
- Metropolitan of Montenegro in support of persecuted Ukrainian Metropolitan-Abbot of Svyatogorsk Lavra
- Orthodox faithful hold procession and prayers at site of demolished Tithes Church in Kiev (+VIDEO)
- Bulgarian hierarchs concelebrate with Ukrainian schismatics in Istanbul
- Under cover of night, Ukraine destroys Tithes Church, built on site of first Kievan cathedral
- Persecuted Ukrainian hierarchs are confessors of the Orthodox faith—Serbian hierarch’s open letter
- UOC’s Metropolitan Luke of Zaporozhye placed under nighttime house arrest
- UOC bishop-abbot faces years in prison for sermon mentioning roadblocks, monastic brotherhood responds
- Security Service detains Metropolitan-abbot of Ukrainian Church’s Svyatogorsk Lavra
- Persecuted Metropolitan Longin detained at checkpoint following another surgery
- Arson at Orthodox monastery in northwestern Ukraine
- Ukraine targets canonical Church rep after he informed international group about persecution of UOC
- Schismatics have seized 1,500 canonical churches in Ukraine—UOC Chancellor
- Following Parliamentary request, criminal case opened over beating of Orthodox Christians in central Ukraine
- Canonical Ukrainian Synod calls on Parliament not to pass law that would ban the Church
- Ukrainian museum raising funds to dismantle a church that it calls “garbage”
- Sites covering the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church blocked in Ukraine
- Supreme Court of Ukraine for first time declares forced transition from UOC to schismatic OCU to be legal
- Ukrainian Ministry calls for sanctions against retired Metropolitan of Crimea
- Young men beat Ukrainian priest, destroy his house where parish was worshiping (+VIDEO)
- 30th anniversary of persecuted abbot of Kiev Caves Lavra
- Ukrainian hierarch recovers from stroke, discharged from hospital
- UOC lawyer calls on Patriarch Bartholomew to do the right thing and defend the Church
- UN again sounds alarm on violence against Ukrainian Orthodox people and churches
- Court deprives UOC Cherkasy Diocese of land around cathedral
- Persecuted Ukrainian hierarch suffers a stroke
- Metropolitan Onuphry blesses special Lenten prayer rule for Ukrainian flock
- Ukrainian Security Service conducted more than 20 searches of Orthodox journalists, hierarchs respond
- Security Service raids offices of Orthodox journalists and lawyers
- Russian Synod establishes temporary authority over portions of UOC’s Zaporozhye Diocese
- Ukrainian Church calls on Romanian Church to reconsider opening its own structure in Ukraine
- Romanian Synod establishes “Romanian Orthodox Church of Ukraine,” Ukrainian hierarch responds
- Ukrainian authorities going after another hierarch of the canonical Ukrainian Church
- Another Ukrainian hierarch hospitalized under pressure of state persecution
- Persecuted Metropolitan Longin undergoes another heart surgery
- Hundreds of Orthodox faithful outside church overtaken by schismatics (+VIDEO)
- Kiev Caves Lavra responds to Ukraine’s propaganda report to the UN
- Kiev Lavra monk must wear ankle bracelet, surrender passport
- Armed men brutally beat Ukrainian Orthodox Christians and seize their church (+VIDEOS)
- It was U.S. policy to destroy the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, says Church’s lawyer
- Kiev City Council gives Lavra land plots to state authorities
- Police investigating beating of Metropolitan Longin of Ukrainian Orthodox Church
- Persecuted Metropolitan Longin attacked at home, has to undergo surgery
- Schismatics remove St. Alexander Nevsky from their liturgical calendar
- Ukrainian officials lie to UN, deny violence against Orthodox faithful despite video proof (+VIDEOS)
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