Ecumenical Patriarchate aims to create own structure in Lithuania, challenging Russian Orthodox Church
In the conflict between the Orthodox Patriarchates of Constantinople and Moscow, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I is seeking to…
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Russian Orthodox Church shares responsibility for Russia’s aggression – Ecumenical Patriarch
“The Church and the State leadership in Russia cooperated in the crime of aggression, and share the responsibility…
Ecumenic Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew sends message to Ukraine on Christmas Day
Ecumenic Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew in his Christmas message to Ukraine has said that the Great Church of…
Moscow Patriarch lays groundwork for challenging primacy of Ecumenical Patriarchate
At a meeting of a Moscow conference on “World Orthodoxy: Primacy and Collegiality in the Light of Orthodox…
Moscow worried about possible moves to Orthodox autocephaly in Belarus and Moldova
Religious affairs specialist Milena Faustova says that “the closer the August 24 date of the visit of Bartholomew…
Zelenskyy’s election has not stopped the rise of the autocephalous Ukrainian Orthodox Church
Exactly a year ago, the Ecumenical Patriarch in Constantinople extended autocephaly to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU),…
Draft tomos gives Ukrainian Church less autonomy than it hopes to obtain
Ukrainian media have obtained a copy of a draft tomos that the Universal Patriarchate has prepared for delivery…
Moscow laying groundwork for alternative patriarchate in Muslim Turkey
The Moscow Patriarchate is taking its battle against the Universal Patriarchate over Ukrainian autocephaly to a new level:…
Constantinople: Moscow could be stripped of autocephaly, while Belarus could gain it
If Moscow continues to interfere with the march of Ukraine’s Orthodox to autocephaly, it could lose not only…
Constantinople decision on Ukrainian Church truly has global consequences
Although the Universal Patriarch in Constantinople has not yet given the tomos of autocephaly to the Ukrainian Orthodox…
The next domino – Belarusian Orthodox hope for autocephaly
Archbishop Sviatoslau Lohin, head of the émigré Belarusian Autocephalous Church, says that his denomination supports autocephaly for Ukrainian…
Moscow having failed to block Ukrainian autocephaly now attempting to exploit it
The Kremlin and the Moscow Patriarchate remain totally opposed to autocephaly for the Ukrainian church, but in recognition…
Constantinople could grant autocephaly to Belarusian Orthodox Church next, Gorbik says
Ukrainian Archpriest Sergey Gorbik says that Constantinople could grant autocephaly to the Belarusian Orthodox Church in the near…
Constantinople moves to grant autocephaly to Ukrainian Church, outraging Moscow
Yesterday, the Ecumenical Patriarchate announced that it has appointed as its exarchs in Kyiv an archbishop from the…
Three signs Moscow Patriarch Kirill knows he’s lost on Ukrainian autocephaly
The Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC MP) continues to assert that it will be able…
Ecumenical Patriarch to grant Ukrainian Orthodox autocephaly, Greek Church source says
The Ecumenical Patriarch of the Orthodox Church, Bartholomew I of Constantinople, has decided to grant autocephaly to the…
Implicitly conceding Ukrainian autocephaly, Moscow makes plans to split Orthodoxy and dominate one part of it, analysts say
Now that it has become clear that autocephaly for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church is only a question of…
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…
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…
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…