This is likely the first time that Abbot Ephraim has personally concelebrated with any representatives of the schismatics.
According to His Holiness, declaring a religious organization, which unites many millions of followers, thousands of communities, and hundreds of monasteries across the country, as illegal, “puts the Ukrainian state on par with the most sinister anti-religious regimes of the past.”
His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry of Kiev and All Ukraine issued a decree yesterday suspending an archimandrite who twice in recent months served with the Constantinople exarch bishop in Kiev and schismatics of the “Orthodox Church of Ukraine.”
Priest Francisco Salvador
An amazing thing—dozens of young people were ready to become martyrs and die for Christ.
Fr. Lawrence Farley
True lived Orthodoxy is rooted in the family of the Church—a family built upon apostolic foundations.