Starting September 1, the ecclesiastical new year according to the new calendar, the Ukrainian Greek Catholic church will serve on the new calendar.
According to certain secular and Church figures, the Ministry’s reaction to the planned peace event was unwarranted.
A scandal erupted in the Polish media after His Beatitude Metropolitan Sawa, the primate of the Polish Orthodox Church, sent greetings to His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow on the occasion of the 14th anniversary of the latter’s enthronement as primate on February 1.
A joyous celebration occurred in Bulgaria on the feast of the Meeting of the Lord, February 2, when hierarchs of the Bulgarian Church concelebrated with hierarchs of the newly autocephalous Macedonian Orthodox Church-Ohrid Archbishopric.
Most recently Belya sent a letter through his attorney Oleg Rivkin to the heads of the Orthodox jurisdictions in America, threatening legal action against them for their stance against him.