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
According to an American research institute, only 9 of the 47 hierarchs of the Georgian Orthodox Church support the Ukrainian autocephaly
His Eminence Metropolitan Hierotheos (Vlachos) of Nafpaktos, considered as one of the Orthodox Church’s foremost theologians today, published the letter he sent to the Church of Greece Holy Synod, in which he expresses his views on how the Church of Greece should respond to the decisions made by Patriarchate Bartholomew in Ukraine.
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 (the words in bold are in bold in the original).
On Saturday, January 26, 2019, for approximately ninety minutes, a virtual conference call was held on the topic of Ukrainian Autocephaly. This event was the first of the kind sponsored by the Order of Saint Andrew the Apostle, Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in America. The panelists were His Eminence Metropolitan Emmanuel of France, Representative of the Ecumenical Patriarchate; Rev. Nicholas E. Denysenko, PhD, Valparaiso university (Emil and Elfriede Jochum
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 nationwide conference call. The topic will be the complex issue of the autocephaly of the Orthodox Church in Ukraine, as well as the prerogatives and responsibilities of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. Experts will intervene: The keynote speaker, His Eminence Metropolitan Emmanuel of France, appointed by Patriarch Bartholomew on
“We are pleased to announce that His Beatitude Metropolitan Epifaniy of Kyiv and All Ukraine will be arriving in Constantinople on the morning of Saturday, January 5 with his venerable suite, in order to make his formal irenic visit to the Ecumenical Patriarchate. At 11:30, the eminent visitor to the Mother Church will attend the doxology in the Patriarchal Church, and then will be officially received by His All-Holiness Ecumenical
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 bishops of the canonical Ukrainian Church who openly support the idea of autocephaly. Following this interview, President Poroshenko thanked Metropolitan Sophroniy with these words: “I would like to thank you for this very thorough, very frank, and masterful interview. It comes from a
The site of the Orthodox Church of Moldova (Moscow Patriarchate), referring to the Romanian sources of the site G4Media, mentions that the Orthodox Church of Romania is facing an extremely difficult decision with a major political and social impact: what stance should they take regarding the Ukraine claim to autocephaly? While Ukraine is pushing for a quick decision by the Romanian Orthodox Church, its leaders are delaying their decision for