Ukrainian leaders seek Ukrainian Orthodox autocephaly

September 13, 2016

    

Meeting with the Ecumenical Patriarch in August, two former Ukrainian presidents delivered to him a petition of 5,000 signatures, seeking autocephaly for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, CatholicCulture.org reports.

Details of the meeting between Leonid Kravchuk and Viktor Yuschenko were not immediately known following the session, but BBC has now reported that the former Ukrainian authorities met with Patriarch Bartholomew seeking the recognition of a Ukrainian Orthodox Church separated from the Moscow Patriarchate which canonically governs the Ukrainian Church headed by His Beatitude Metropolitan Onufry (Berezovsky).

After Ukraine received its independence following the fall of the Soviet Union, then head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Filaret (Denysenko), went into schism as the self-proclaimed patriarch of the so-called "Kiev Patriarchate," which is recognized by neither Moscow nor Constantinople, nor any Orthodox Church in the world. A second schismatic "Orthodox" body, the self-styled Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church, operates in Ukraine, in addition to the Uniate Greek Catholics.

9/13/2016

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They destroyed the roof and the walls of the building and threatened the rector and believers, the UOC press service reports. Russian Orthodox Church finds Ukrainian Rada's initiative to be gross violation of law Russian Orthodox Church finds Ukrainian Rada's initiative to be gross violation of law Russian Orthodox Church finds Ukrainian Rada's initiative to be gross violation of law Russian Orthodox Church finds Ukrainian Rada's initiative to be gross violation of law
The Moscow Patriarchate has sharply criticized Verkhovnaya Rada deputies who recently issued an address to the Patriarch of Constantinople calling for recognition of the independence of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church from Moscow. Rada calls on Ecumenical patriarch to give autocephaly to Ukraine's Orthodox Church Rada calls on Ecumenical patriarch to give autocephaly to Ukraine's Orthodox Church Rada calls on Ecumenical patriarch to give autocephaly to Ukraine's Orthodox Church Rada calls on Ecumenical patriarch to give autocephaly to Ukraine's Orthodox Church
The Verkhovnaya Rada calls on Patriarch Bartholomew to invalidate the act of 1686 according to which the Kiev metropolitan was allegedly, "in violation of canons," attached to the Moscow Patriarchate. Orthodox Churches clearly expressed their attitude to Ukrainian schismatics. Did Philaret understand? Orthodox Churches clearly expressed their attitude to Ukrainian schismatics. Did Philaret understand?
Tamar Lomidze Orthodox Churches clearly expressed their attitude to Ukrainian schismatics. Did Philaret understand? Orthodox Churches clearly expressed their attitude to Ukrainian schismatics. Did Philaret understand?
Tamar Lomidze
Forgetting Christ’s commandments, embracing ethnophyletism, giving preference to a Caesar, serving Mammon—all of these are symptoms of a serious disease that has affected schismatics of the so-called “Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate” as a result of their falling away from Orthodoxy. Orthodox world does not back Church schism in Ukraine, only recognizes canonical Church - Patriarch Kirill Orthodox world does not back Church schism in Ukraine, only recognizes canonical Church - Patriarch Kirill Orthodox world does not back Church schism in Ukraine, only recognizes canonical Church - Patriarch Kirill Orthodox world does not back Church schism in Ukraine, only recognizes canonical Church - Patriarch Kirill
"Ukraine has only one Ukrainian Orthodox Church recognized by all Orthodox Churches, and therefore, if people want to be in communion with the ecumenical Orthodox faith, they should reunite with the Ukrainian Orthodox Church on the basis of the canons that exist in ecumenical Orthodoxy. There is no other way, and there is no other message to Ukraine from the patriarchs today," he said. Elder Ephraim of Vatopedi is asking the Ukrainian people to remain faithful to the canonical Church Elder Ephraim of Vatopedi is asking the Ukrainian people to remain faithful to the canonical Church Elder Ephraim of Vatopedi is asking the Ukrainian people to remain faithful to the canonical Church Elder Ephraim of Vatopedi is asking the Ukrainian people to remain faithful to the canonical Church
The elder shared his concern about the events in the Ukraine.
Comments
Arteides Imper9/13/2016 7:31 pm
A petition of 5000 signatures for the whole of Ukraine??. Where was it held - in a village? Even in tiny Malta. our petitions gather much more signatures!!!!
Anthony9/13/2016 4:15 pm
The Phanar has no authority to do so, so they're wasting their time. He should remember his own precarious position in Constantinople before mischief making in other jurisdictions. The only independence required in the Ukraine is the independence of the Russian parts or their reunification with mother Russia. This is the only inevitability and the sooner the better. Let the rest of the western "ukrainians" be subsumed into the morally financially and demographically bankrupt west.
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