Protopresbyter Anastasios Gotsopoulos
Rating: 9,7|Votes: 52
The bishops of the UAOC (making up thirty percent of the new “autocephalous” church of Ukraine) were consecrated by two people: one deposed, and one self-consecrated!
Jesse Dominick
Rating: 6,8|Votes: 19
While the statement has been condemned in the broader opinion of the Sacred Community, we have decided to make comments on the statement for the good of our readers, as the attitudes in the statement are unfortunately prevalent in certain Church circles today.
Nicolai N. Petro
Rating: 6,1|Votes: 10
While Poroshenko has gained the backing of the Patriarch of Constantinople, the rest of the Orthodox world has taken a wait-and-see attitude since, in the tradition of Orthodox Christianity, the consequences of these actions will not become fully manifest until far into the future.
Sergei Geruk, Archbishop Theodosy (Snigiryov) of Boyarka
Rating: 7,7|Votes: 48
The disciplinary measure in this case is a warning to all the faithful of the Russian Church and the entire Orthodox world that the Phanar has violated the canons of Orthodoxy, that it has openly declared the heresy of Eastern papism.
Priest Nectarios Trevino
Rating: 9|Votes: 28
I recognize the conflict—the cosmic battle—is more significant than this life. I chose the truth, hope, and the Church.
Anna Stickles
Rating: 8,6|Votes: 61
Historically and ecclesiologically no one part of the Church has absolute authority or the final say, only the agreement of the whole.
Rating: 9,7|Votes: 50
Our hearts bleed for our brethren and sisters afflicted by these events, and we call all Orthodox peoples to fervent prayer on behalf of His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry, his fellow Hierarchs, and all suffering faithful in Ukraine and in every land.
Fr. Patrick Burke
Rating: 9,7|Votes: 51
We offer our readers more thoughts on the current political and ecclesiastical crisis in Ukraine by an Orthodox-leaning Anglican priest of the Church of Ireland, who serves in County Kilkenny, Republic of Ireland.
Rating: 9,5|Votes: 42
We state that the idea of overcoming the church schism in Ukraine by the granting of a Tomos of autocephaly to the non-canonical church groups (“UOC-KP” and “UAOC”) has turned out to be a grave error.
Archbishop Anastasios of Tirana
Rating: 7,2|Votes: 29
After the information (of March 26, 2019) that the Italian translation of the Patriarchal Letter of March 9, 2019 was inserted within the “category of texts of Dogmatic and Symbolic Theology” it was decided to make the related answer of the Orthodox Autocephalous Church of Albania (March 9, 2019) public.
Archpriest John Whiteford
Rating: 9,4|Votes: 53
This is the text of a talk that I gave at St. Tikhon University in Moscow, at a conference entitled "Causes and Challenges of the Current Crisis of Inter-Orthodox Relations," on February 25th, 2019.
Rating: 8|Votes: 52
Constantinople’s resurrection as the New Rome leads inexorably to its bowing in obedience to the Old.
Jad Ganem
Rating: 9,4|Votes: 13
Why did the Ecumenical Patriarchate refuse to include the issue of affirming the churches' autocephaly during the "Council of Crete", despite repeated requests made by the Church of Serbia regarding this before and during the council?
Rating: 8,9|Votes: 9
We have provided a full translation of it here because of its far-reaching importance and relevance to today’s grievous situation in Ukraine.
Rating: 7,6|Votes: 38
It is universally recognized as a basic ecclesiological principle that the ordinations of heretics and schismatics, and especially of those who are deposed and excommunicated, as a “Sacrament,” celebrated by all the Churches, are invalid. This basic principle is inextricably bound with the Orthodox teaching on the Holy Spirit and constitutes an unshakeable foundation of the Apostolic succession of Orthodox bishops. It is our conviction that this principle cannot be ignored.
Archpriest John Whiteford, Jesse Dominick
Rating: 9|Votes: 53
Since I became Orthodox, one of the big things I have been concerned with is trying to bring people into the Church. It’s harder to bring people into the Church now because it’s harder to explain what Orthodoxy is.
Rating: 7,5|Votes: 12
For Russia, the situation involves both a dispute over canonical territory and a protest against the claims of Constantinople to be “first among equals” and have universal authority. The first is jurisdictional, the second a matter of the rule of faith.
Rating: 9,7|Votes: 61
Does anyone wonder what canonical crime these people committed that the Patriarch of Constantinople treated them this way? Maybe they’re guilty of not wanting to become autocephalous and enter into communion with unrepentant schismatics?
Rating: 7,7|Votes: 15
First of all it is canonically and historically clear that interruption of Eucharistic communion and ceasing to commemorate a Patriarch, when done rightly is for the protection of the faith.
Sergei Geruk, Bishop Victor (Kotsaba) of Baryshev
Rating: 10|Votes: 22
As is well known, today the Orthodox believers of Ukraine have been taken for ransom in the political games of the heads of the state, who have drawn Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople into these processes.
