Metropolitan Luke (Kovalenko)
Now is a similar time. Also people who call themselves journalists, with the help of the media call white black, call for the destruction of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, slander it.
The newly illumined Orthodox Christians hail from various backgrounds, including the United Kingdom, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Greece, Africa, other Commonwealth and European countries, and Asia.
In particular, the Synod considered the cases of Abbot Tikhon (Gayfudinov), Archpriest Andrei Pastukh, Archpriest Edward Chervinsky, and Protodeacon Vladimir Oliynyk, “who wrought disturbance in the church life of several diocesan parishes.”
Last month, His Eminence Metropolitan Vladimir of Chișinău of the Moscow Patriarchate issued a call to His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel of Romania to enter into dialogue concerning the sharp ecclesiastical tensions.
The conference, held at the Holy Virgin, Joy of All Who Sorrow Cathedral, home to the relics of St. John, was dedicated to the 30th anniversary of his glorification.