Russian Synod expresses support for UOC, approves texts of prayers for soldiers

Moscow, December 30, 2022

Photo: patriarchia.ru Photo: patriarchia.ru     

The Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church has again expressed its support for the suffering people of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church. It has also approved the texts of various prayers for soldiers.

Considering the recent presidential order and various draft laws aimed against the UOC, the Church searches and “arrests under far-fetched pretexts” and the personal sanctions against UOC hierarchs and clergy, the increase of church seizures by the schismatics, and the Sovietesque media campaign against the Church, the Russian Synod, under the chairmanship of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill, resolved:

  1. “To express support for the bishops, clerics, monastics, and laity who are striving to preserve the unity and canonical structure of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church even in the current difficult circumstances.

  2. “Consider it important to draw the attention of the Local Orthodox Churches, representatives of Christian denominations and the world religious community, as well as international human rights organizations to the violations of the rights of the faithful in Ukraine.”

Yesterday’s resolutions essentially repeat the statements of support from the Synod meetings of May 29 and June 7.

At the same time, while the UOC has, in the words of His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry of Kiev and All Ukraine, separated itself from the Moscow Patriarchate, the Russian Synod has emphasized that according to Russian Church statutes, only a Local Council (hierarchs, clergy, monastics, laity) can change the status of the UOC.

Thus, in the eyes of the Russian Church, the UOC remains an autonomous Church of the Moscow Patriarchate. Accordingly, the Russian Synod decided yesterday to include Archpriest Vladimir Saveliev, Chairman of the UOC’s Publishing Department, in the ROC’s own Publishing Council, although Fr. Vladimir rejects this appointment.

The Synod also approved for home use the text of several prayers to the Lord Jesus Christ and the Most Holy Theotokos for soldiers on the battlefield, and for wounded, captured, and missing soldiers.

Find the texts of the prayers (in Church Slavonic) here.

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12/30/2022

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Comments
Pfmd3/25/2023 3:39 am
david: The only belligerent and insensitive and tone-deaf individual here is you. We are tired of your constant tirades and Pharisaic views of Orthodoxy. You are not even Orthodox, other then being a paid anti-Russian NGO agent, why do you care what the Russian MP does.
David1/2/2023 3:22 pm
The Moscow Patriarchate continues to act in an inexplicably tone-deaf manner. While the UOC is trying to fight for its survival and do what is necessary, the Moscow Patriarchate continues to undermine them by saying repeatedly that they are part of the Moscow Patriarchate. Additionally, the appointment of Father Vladimir to that position is akin to pinning a target on his cassock. Given the prickly situation in Ukraine, one would think the MP would be more sensitive to pastoral realities (even before the war, there were numerous parishes that received a dispensation to not commemorate Patriarch Kyrill by name). Given the repeatedly quasi-belligerent insensitivity displayed here, it isn't a surprise that the MP was unable to resolve this issue before 2018.
Panagiotis1/2/2023 5:39 am
Our God Jesus Christ and the Panagia WILL help the Russian Orthodox People. This is a Monumental battle against the Demonic internationalist forces who want to destroy Conservative Orthodox Russia and the Conservative Russian Orthodox Church. The sinister internationalists want to INFEST Russia (and the Ukraine and ALL other Orthodox Nations) with liberal garbage like the proliferation of sodomy, transgenderism, pornography, feminism, secular humanism, atheism, etc. They also want to defeat Russia so the plunderers can enter it and steal the VAST natural resources and wealth of MASSIVE Russia, just like when the devious internationalists had their Bolshevik PUPPETS take over. Many people do not know that it was wealthy internationalists, including powerful Financial Elite, THAT FINANCED the Bolshevik Revolution. And After the revolution, Western businessmen and Financial Elite made vast amounts of MONEY in dealings with the so-called USSR. Oh yes my friends, you have to research history from many different sources to put the pieces of the puzzle together, since the sinister internationalists DO NOT want people to know the TRUTH. Just like they are SUPPRESSING the truth now in the GANGSTER state of the Ukraine. We have in the Ukraine a dictatorial president, a defense minister, and a foreign minister, who all three are allegedly of Ashkenazi Jewish descent, I.E. all three are allegedly NOT of ethnic Ukrainian descent. People of Ethnic Ashkenazi descent are approximately LESS THAN 1% of the population of the Ukraine. Ethnic Ukrainians (who are Slavic) are the MAJORITY of the population of the Ukraine. Let us hope and pray that this war ends soon, as our Orthodox Brothers are fighting and killing each other. How many wives will become widows now, and how many children will grow up without Fathers? Panagia help us. ALL GLORY TO OUR GOD AND FEAR HIM. Just my humble opinion.
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