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Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople

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  2018/06/03 - 12:06 • Analysis & Opinion, Culture, Russia, Ukraine

  Ukrainian autocephaly just as inevitable as restoration of USSR is impossible

  Some were disappointed that the Constantinople Patriarchate did not make the Ukrainian church autocephalous at its meeting on May 31, especially since Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko had said in April that the independence of...

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  2017/12/05 - 10:55 • Analysis & Opinion, Ukraine

  Moscow Patriarchate’s moves strengthen Russia’s hand in Ukraine, Kryuchkov says

  The decision of the Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC MP) to allow the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC MP) some greater flexibility and to begin talks with the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of...

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  2016/06/20 - 20:51 • Analysis & Opinion

  How Russia used Orthodox fundamentalism to hijack the Church Council in Crete

  Behind this leadership squabble lurks a growing antagonism not only between the zealot – neo-fundamentalists – and the proselyte movements which are open to ecumenism but also between the proponents of a Byzantine “symphonia” and...

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  2016/06/13 - 19:21 • Analysis & Opinion, Politics

  Orthodox world heading toward a new schism

  The decisions of the Bulgarian, Serbian and Antioch Orthodox churches not to attend the Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church chaired by the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople on Crete later this week and a declaration by the...

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  2016/02/07 - 07:15 • Analysis & Opinion, Culture, Politics

  Kirill wants a ‘guarantee’ from Pope in his war against Church in...

  The upcoming meeting of Moscow Patriarch Kirill with Pope Francis in Cuba is not only a major boost for the status of the Russian Orthodox Church, suggesting as it does that Moscow somehow represents all Orthodox as Rome represents all...

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