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.
Metropolitan Sergius (Gensitsky)
Rating: 9,9|Votes: 18
Ternopil is one of the most difficult dioceses for Orthodox Christians who have not joined the schismatic “Kiev Patriarchate”. The region has also been dominated by Uniates. Therefore Metr. Sergius and his flock could well be called a diocese of confessors of the faith.
Rating: 8,7|Votes: 33
In short, I imagine that I would have similar feelings if a letter written by Judas calling for loyalty to our Lord Jesus Christ was somehow found.
Rating: 9,3|Votes: 27
The Sacred Bishops’ Council is now forced to note with sorrow that Monk Philaret did not heed the call to repentance addressed to him on behalf of the Mother-Church, but in the inter-Council period continued his schismatic activity, which he extended beyond the bounds of the Russian Orthodox Church.
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?
Priest Mikhail Zheltov
Rating: 7,5|Votes: 10
The following article describes in detail and scrupulously analyzes the historical events connected with the arrangement of Church life in Kiev, Moscow, and Western Rus’ over the span of the last millennium.
Nun Cornelia (Rees)
Rating: 9,9|Votes: 25
Ukrainians are in general a religious people, but this writer perceives a direct correlation between the violence done to the Ukrainian Orthodox people over many centuries by the Latin West and the violent nature of Ukrainian nationalism, an idea that has been taken to its present extreme in Greek Catholic Galicia.
Rating: 9,9|Votes: 24
The Unia, or uniatism, was a policy developed by Rome in order to bring Orthodox and other non-Roman Catholic believers under the authority of the Pope.
Rating: 9,6|Votes: 29
But temporarily setting aside modern complexities, we’ll begin by looking back to distant, apostolic times, when the light of Christianity was just beginning to penetrate the tenebrous dominions of Scythes and Slavs.
Yuri Pushchaev, Vladislav Igorevich Petrushko
Rating: 8,7|Votes: 26
The 1686 тomos concerning the transfer of the Kievan Metropolia from the Church of Constantinople to the Moscow Patriarchate and the circumstances of this transfer have recently become the subject of heightened discussion. The Patriarchate of Constantinople has now suddenly begun to categorically challenge the validity of this transfer.
Helen Flatley
Rating: 10|Votes: 6
Despite its small size, this incredible manuscript can tell us a great deal about books in the early Middle Ages, including how they were made, and more importantly, how they were used.
Bishop Job (Smakouz)
Rating: 7,1|Votes: 29
On the subject of the historical circumstances of the Ukrainian churches born from schism across the ocean, we spoke with Bishop Job (Smakouz).
Rating: 10|Votes: 29
And our holy hierarchs of the Fourth Ecumenical Council left us a brilliant example: That suffering for Christ is our spiritual compass, and a pure, virgin martyr whose soul is with Christ is more to be trusted than hundreds of scholars.
Archpriest Andrew Phillips, Priest Srboliub Miletich
Rating: 9,3|Votes: 43
These tragic events have therefore once again focused attention on the extraordinary universalist and meddling pretensions of the Patriarchate of Constantinople. Where did these strange and novel ideas originate?
Protodeacon Vladimir Vasilik
Rating: 9,8|Votes: 13
Are catastrophic events connected with envy characteristic only of Byzantium? Alas, no.
St. John (Maximovich) of Shanghai and San Francisco
Rating: 9,4|Votes: 72
The moral authority of the Patriarchs of Constantinople has likewise fallen very low in view of their extreme instability in ecclesiastical matters.
Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev)
Rating: 8,7|Votes: 55
We have made this statement today in the hope that they will reconsider their decision, that no exarchs will go to Kiev. However, in the event that the decision is not reconsidered, we will be forced to think of retaliatory measures. At the moment, such measures are being discussed by our Holy Synod.
Archimandrite Job (Gumerov)
Rating: 9,4|Votes: 21
Today we celebrate one of the world’s most beloved icons of the Mother of God—the Vladimir icon. Tradition has it that this icon, which is now preserved in a church attached to the Tretyakov Art Gallery in Moscow, was originally painted by the holy Apostle Luke.
Sergei Geruk, Archbishop Theodosy (Snigiryov) of Boyarka
Rating: 9|Votes: 20
The 1030th anniversary celebration of the Baptism of Rus’ revealed new tendencies in the church life of Ukraine, made manifest in the hidden attitudes of society towards the church. What were the spiritual results of this anniversary? Has the danger of the non-canonical legalization of the schism ceased? What is the spiritual status of the Ukrainian flock? When will peace finally come to Ukraine?
Sergei Kuznetsov
Rating: 8|Votes: 17
The History of the Russian Church, as well as that of the Kievan Metropolis, separated between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries, can be characterized mainly in the light of: a) The weakness at the center of the Patriarchate of Constantinople; and b) The strong influence of Catholicism on the Ukrainian lands controlled by Poland.
