Polish hierarchs to continue work for Church unity against background of Ukrainian crisis

Warsaw, April 2, 2021

Photo: orthodox.pl Photo: orthodox.pl The Council of Bishops of the Polish Orthodox Church met in Warsaw on Tuesday under the chairmanship of His Beatitude Metropolitan Sawa to discuss a number of external and internal issues in the life of the Church.

Documents from the primates of the Local Churches related to the ecclesiastical problem in Ukraine were reviewed, after which “the holy Council of Bishops confirmed its previous position on the above issue, expressing concern about the protracted Church crisis in Ukraine and decided to continue comprehensive international efforts for the unity of Orthodoxy.”

While the primates and certain hierarchs of the Churches of Alexandria, Cyprus, and Greece have capitulated to the pressure from the Patriarchate of Constantinople and Western governments and turned their backs on their previous principled stands regarding Constantinople’s invasion of Ukrainian Church territory, the hierarchs of the Polish Church have remained firmly on the side of holy Orthodoxy.

In fact, the Polish and Serbian Churches have taken the strongest stands against the Ukrainian schismatics and Constantinople’s inept actions in Ukraine. The Polish hierarchs have officially rejected the schismatics and forbidden their clergy from serving with them, and have rejected Patriarch Bartholomew’s request that they recognize Epiphany Dumenko as the head of a Local Church.

The Polish Church has also emphasized that there can be no Ukrainian autocephaly without the repentance of the schismatics and that allowing schismatics into the Church is an attack on the Eucharistic unity of the Church.

The Polish Council of Bishops also noted at its session in April 2019 that it was working with other Local Churches to regularize Church life in Ukraine.

The hierarchs also adopted on Tuesday the text of the “Prayer for a Woman Who Cannot Give Birth” for liturgical use, and resolved to complete the collection of the lives of the saints of Chełm and Poslasie. In October 2019, the Church added 30 names to the Synaxis of Chełm and Poslasie Martyrs, and in March 2020, it added another 30 names to the Synaxis of Podlasie Martyrs.

Among several other items, the Council also heard a report on the Social Fund of the Metropolis of Warsaw and decided to increase the existing allowance to those it supports.

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4/2/2021

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