Hierarchs and Synods throughout the Orthodox Church have repeatedly spoken up in defense of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church under His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry of Kiev and All Ukraine, which is currently facing serious persecution from state authorities.
A delegation of the Latvian Orthodox Church visited Moscow earlier this month. On October 6, a meeting was held at the offices of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations (DECR) at Danilovsky Monastery in Moscow.
His Eminence Metropolitan Mark of Berlin and Germany issued a short statement on the current persecution of the UOC last week, following the Verkhovna Rada’s vote for a bill that aims at banning the Church on a federal level.
Metropolitan Dimitrios of Metra and Athyras of the Patriarchate of Constantinople reposed in the Lord yesterday.
Met. Seraphim was elected the next primate of the Japanese Church on September 29, following the repose of His Eminence Metropolitan Daniel, who had led the Church for 23 years.