Only 9 of the 47 hierarchs of the Georgian Orthodox Church support the Ukrainian autocephaly
According to an American research institute, only 9 of the 47 hierarchs of the Georgian Orthodox Church support the Ukrainian autocephaly
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“The Church of Greece cannot contest the Ukrainian autocephaly”
His Eminence Metropolitan Hierotheos (Vlachos) of Nafpaktos, considered as one of the Orthodox Church’s foremost theologians today, published the l...
Communiqué of the Polish Orthodox Church Assembly of Bishops on Ukrainian autocephaly
The Polish Orthodox Church Assembly of Bishops met on April 2. The meeting was chaired by Metropolitan Sawa. They issued the following statement on...
Ukrainian Autocephaly: Notes after the Archons Virtual conference call
On Saturday, January 26, 2019, for approximately ninety minutes, a virtual conference call was held on the topic of Ukrainian Autocephaly. This eve...
Conference call on Ukrainian autocephaly
On Saturday, January 26, 2019, (1-3 p.m. EST), the Order of Saint Andrew, Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, will be hosting the first-ever na...
Program of the Ceremony for the granting of the Ukrainian Autocephaly, to be held at the Phanar o...
“We are pleased to announce that His Beatitude Metropolitan Epifaniy of Kyiv and All Ukraine will be arriving in Constantinople on the mornin...
BBC interview with pro-Ukrainian autocephaly Metropolitan Sophroniy of Cherkasy and Kaniv
Please find here the text of the full interview given on November 16 to the BBC by Metropolitan Sophroniy of Cherkasy and Kaniv, one of the two bi...
Romanian website reveals two reasons why the Romanian Patriarchate would be reluctant to Ukrainia...
The site of the Orthodox Church of Moldova (Moscow Patriarchate), referring to the Romanian sources of the site G4Media, mentions that the Orthodox...
U.S. Department of State Press Release Regarding Ukrainian Autocephaly
Under the title “Religious Freedom in Ukraine”, the U.S. State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert issued the following press release...
Ukrainian autocephaly – a step to canonical Unity or just to Union with Rome?
Bishop Symeon Lukach was canonized by the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church as Hieromartyr for not betraying his Church under Communist repressions o...
President Poroshenko’s adviser gave details on the granting of the tomos of autocephaly to ...
The official communiqué on the granting of autocephaly to the Ukrainian Church and the date of the Unification Council will be published on Novembe...
Autocephaly To Be Soon Granted By Patriarch Bartholomew To The Ukrainian Church
On September 23, Patriarch Bartholomew promised he would soon grant autocephaly for the creation of a new autocephalous church in the Ukraine, “bec...
The three main Ukrainian Orthodox monasteries are “categorically opposed to autocephaly”
In his sermon for September 24, Metropolitan Arseny of Svyatogorsk stated that the three main Ukrainian monasteries (Kyiv, Pochayiv, and Svyatogors...
Patriarch Irinej of Serbia addressed a letter of protest to Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinop...
The Greek agency Romfea published in exclusivity excerpts of a 15-page letter addressed by Patriarch Irinej of Serbia to the Ecumenical Patriarch B...
First official message of the Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church about the initiative of...
For the first time, the Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church officially responded to the initiative of the Patriarch of Constantinople Barth...
60,000 Ukrainian faithful ask Patriarch Bartholomew that the question of autocephaly be examined ...
A petition gathering 60,000 signatures of Ukrainian faithful was handed to Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew’s Secretary Office. They are ask...
The Orthodox Church of Poland opposes the autocephaly of the Ukrainian Church
According to exclusive information from the Greek agency Romfea.gr, the Polish Orthodox Church expressed its opposition to the situation in the Ukr...
Official comments of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church representative on the results of the meeting o...
The decision of the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece regarding the recognition of the new сhurch structure in Ukraine was commented by the Deputy...
The Synod of the Church of Greece recognizes the Ecumenical Patriarch’s right to issue the status...
The issue of recognition of the status of Autocephaly of the Ukrainian Church appears to have been referred to the Holy Synod of the Hierarchy, fol...
“The tomos was that of enslavement and not of autocephaly”
Metropolitan Onufriy of Kyiv, in a program on the Ukrainian TV channel "Newsone", said the following about the Tomos granted by the Patriarchate of...
Three metropolitans of the Orthodox Church of Cyprus issue a joint statement about their position...
Metropolitans Athanasios of Limassol, Nikiforos of Kykkos and Tillyria, and Isaiah of Tamassos issued the following joint communique, about misinfo...
The “Kyiv Patriarchate” rejects the tomos of autocephaly
Filaret Denisenko, who has been at the head of the “Kyiv Patriarch” (KP) and the “Honorary Patriarch” of the “autocep...
Ebook release: The Ecumenical Patriarchate and Ukraine Autocephaly
The Order of Saint Andrew the Apostle has made possible the recent release of a free ebook to download, on the topic of the Ukrainian autocephaly. ...
“Patriarch” Filaret of Kyiv and Metropolitan Epifaniy of the new Ukrainian Church acc...
On May 28, “Patriarch” Filaret, who according to the statutes of the new Ukrainian autocephalous Church, heads the diocese of Kyiv, ban...
Interview with Archbishop Chrysostomos of Cyprus about his mediation concerning the Ukrainian issue
Archbishop Chrysostomos of Cyprus gave the following interview to the Greek agency Romfea during his recent stay in Athens.
Statement of the Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church on the current situation in Ukrainia...
The Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church at its April 3, 2019 session discussed the prevailing situation Ukrainian church life as well as in...
Patriarch Theodore of Alexandria decorated the Ukrainian Ambassador to Egypt
Patriarch Theodore of Alexandria presented a decoration to the Ukrainian Ambassador to Egypt on the occasion of his departure.
Position of the Serbian Orthodox Church on the Ukrainian question
The following letter was addressed by Patriarch Irinej of Serbia (on the left on the picture, with Patriarch Bartholomew) to Patriarch Bartholomew ...
“The Ukrainian issue is a sensitive topic for all Orthodoxy”
Metropolitan Andrew of Gori and Ateni (Patriarchate of Georgia) expressed his point of view concerning the granting of autocephaly in Ukraine. Resp...
A procession to protest against churches belonging to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church being seized
The faithful of the diocese of Chernivtsi-Bukovina (canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church) organized a procession to protest against churches belongi...
The tomos of autocephaly of the Orthodox Church in Ukraine available in several languages
The official website of the Patriarchate of Constantinople has published the tomos of autocephaly of the Orthodox Church in Ukraine in Greek, Engli...
“What’s most important right now is not autocephaly, but that Orthodoxy may not be divided&...
On January 9, Archbishop Chrysostomos II of Cyprus met with Borys Humeniuk, the Ukrainian Ambassador to Cyprus. According to the Cypriot media, whi...
The granting of the tomos of autocephaly to the “Orthodox Church of Ukraine”
The tomos of autocephaly, signed by Patriarch Bartholomew on January 5, was given to Metropolitan Epifaniy at St. George Patriarchal Cathedral in I...
For Patriarch John X of Antioch, it was unreasonable to put an end to the Ukrainian schism at the...
Recent events in Ukraine have been a source of anxiety, not only because of the disunity they cause in the Orthodox world, but also because in this...
December 17 Address of the Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church
Address of the Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Churchto the archpastors, pastors, monastics, and laityDecember 17, 2018 Your Eminences and Gra...
“Sanctions will be applied to the members of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church who participate ...
Disciplinary sanctions will be applied to the members of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church who join the process of granting the autocephaly to the Orth...
November 13 Statement of the Assembly of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church Bishops
On November 13, His Beatitude Metropolitan Onufriy of Kyiv and All Ukraine presided the session of the Assembly of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, w...
“In my opinion the only solution to the Ukrainian issue is to continue the Council of Crete”
In an interview with the Tass Russian News Agency, Metropolitan Amfilohije of Montenegro (Serbian Orthodox Church) states it is necessary to contin...
BBC interview with Archbishop Job of Telmessos on the Ukrainian question
Archbishop Job of Telmessos (Ecumenical Patriarchate) was interviewed by the BBC about the Ukrainian ecclesial question. The full text of the inter...
