Metropolitan Amfilohije (Radovich)
Rating: 8,7|Votes: 23
This decision is a catastrophe for the Constantinople Patriarchate and for the unity of the Orthodox Church.
Rating: 9,5|Votes: 62
The illicit actions of the Church of Constantinople are able to suffer no canonical defence and constitute a grave and dangerous injustice against the traditions of Orthodoxy, as well as a shocking disregard for the spiritual welfare of the sheep of Christ (cf. John 10.3, 11).
Patriarch Irinej of Serbia
Rating: 9,4|Votes: 34
They do not seek an autocephalous Church because, allegedly, they are its faithful members, but they use it as suitable, but rather unsuitably , for the purpose of strengthening their worldly and essentially atheistic ideology, power and vulgar interests. In the last analysis, it is a question of an abuse of the Church and of the Faith.
Rating: 9,2|Votes: 64
The reception of schismatics and one anathematized in another Local Church with all the “bishops” and “clerics” ordained by them into communion, the encroachment on foreign canonical provinces, the attempt to renounce their own historical decisions and commitments—all of this leads the Patriarchate of Constantinople beyond the bounds of the canonical field and, to our great sorrow, makes it impossible for us to continue Eucharistic communion with its hierarchs, clergy, and laity.
Anton Pospelov, Yuri Pushchaev
Rating: 9|Votes: 40
Pravoslavie.ru asked clergymen and experts from Kiev and Moscow to comment on last week’s scandalous and shocking decision by the Synod of the Constantinople Patriarchate to revoke the Tomos of 1686 that transferred the Ukrainian Metropolia to the Moscow Patriarchate, and to remove the anathema from the heads of the Ukraine’s uncanonical structures—the “Kiev Patriarchate” and the “Ukrainian autocephalous Orthodox Church”, etc.
Metropolitan Mitrophan of Gorlovka and Slavyansk
Rating: 9,2|Votes: 45
The question of granting autocephaly to Ukraine is absolutely not an ecclesiastical question.
Priest Valery Dukhanin
Rating: 8,5|Votes: 68
Now your flock is scattered all across the world, like nestlings without a nest, like children without shelter. You know well what the grief and sorrow of separation feels like, the pain of cutting children off from their mother. Why do you bring this same pain on others?
Jad Ganem
Rating: 8,3|Votes: 40
The Orthodox Church must pay heed to the dangers that result from feeding nationalist sentiments and tying the future of the Church to political considerations.
Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna Romanova
Rating: 8,7|Votes: 38
- I don’t doubt that if events continue along this path, it will only deepen the crisis and will prolong this new dire and tragic period in the history of Ukraine, Russia, the Orthodox world, and in general it will have a negative effect on the international situation.
Fr. Nemanja S. Mrdjenovic
Rating: 8,9|Votes: 24
The principal reason for this trend of inefficiency is the fact that the Church is not evoking the experience of the Fathers to receive back those that came to themselves but is rather using a modern, secular, and predominantly ecumenist method of political compromise.
Metropolitan Tikhon of All America and Canada
Rating: 6,4|Votes: 48
On Wednesday, September 26, 2018, His Beatitude, Metropolitan Tikhon addressed an Archpastoral Letter to the clergy, monastics and faithful of the Orthodox Church in America in reference to recent developments with regard to the Orthodox Church in Ukraine.
Dimitry Marchenko
Rating: 9,4|Votes: 65
That is why I, a parishioner of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, living in Kiev, would like to show you the situation from the inside, from the very epicenter.
Metropolitan Anthony (Pakanich) of Boryspol and Brovary
Rating: 9,3|Votes: 27
The persistent and stubborn attempts of the Ecumenical Patriarchate to heal the split in Ukraine, through the provision of granting autocephaly is not a cure, but poison for both the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church, and the entire body of Ecumenical (Universal) Orthodoxy.
Kirill Alexandrov
Rating: 9,2|Votes: 88
Dubious initiatives by the Phanar in Ukraine are becoming increasingly puzzling; but is Patriarch Bartholomew really free in his actions?
Metropolitan Seraphim of Kythira and Antikythera
Rating: 9,3|Votes: 49
We now present here the full text of Met. Seraphim’s interview with Alexander Stefanopoulos, a Greek journalist in New York, for his “Greek American News Agency.”
Natalia Prokofieva
Rating: 10|Votes: 22
"So, celebrating the Divine Liturgy at the Psychoneurological Home and taking care of the handicapped children fills your heart with an abundant grace of God that can otherwise only be acquired through pilgrimages to holy places, or the conversations with holy elders.”
Nazar Golovko
Rating: 8,1|Votes: 29
The Phanar will have on their side everything that earthly power can give. Only one question remains: Will God be on their side?
Rating: 9,5|Votes: 69
The Statement was adopted at an extraordinary session of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church on 14 September 2018 (Minutes No. 69).
Alexander Shchipkov
Rating: 8,6|Votes: 49
The 7th of September will go down in history as a lamentable date. On this day, the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew proclaimed and signaled a schism in Universal Orthodoxy, along the liberal and conservative lines. And he is officially headed in a liberal direction.
Archpriest Andrei Novikov
Rating: 8,5|Votes: 44
This article was put forth to analyze the speech of the Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew, at the Synaxis (Council) of the Archbishops of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, which was held in Istanbul on September 1-4, 2018.
