Epiphanius reminds that all Orthodox parishes in Ukraine belong to the Ukrainian church
Over the last 18 months, the number of Orthodox parishes in Ukraine which have voted to change their…
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130,000 Ukrainians come to church for Easter as Moscow Patriarchate ignores COVID-19 quarantine
130,000 Ukrainians visited churches for Orthodox Easter this Sunday, on 19 April. This is much less than last…
Kremlin employs Cossacks, Moscow Patriarchate in Ukraine against Kyiv
For as long as official cases of COVID-19 have remained manageable inside the Russian Federation, Moscow was able…
Defiant Moscow Patriarchate in Ukraine calls faithful to church for Easter
Easter as a COVID-19 hazard Metropolitan Onufriy, the primate of the UOC MP, at publication time was reportedly…
Greek acceptance of Ukrainian autocephaly – bigger defeat for Moscow than Constantinople grant, Soldatov says
The harsh even hysterical reaction of the Moscow Patriarchate to the decision of the Greek Orthodox Church to…
520 parishes of Moscow Church have now shifted to autocephalous Orthodox Church of Ukraine
In the first three months after the Orthodox Church of Ukraine became autocephalous, approximately 300 parishes shifted their…
Half of Ukrainians identify with Orthodox Church of Ukraine; only one in seven with Moscow’s exarchate
A new poll shows that 48.8 percent of Ukrainians identify with the Orthodox Church of Ukraine while only…
Implementation of Ukrainian autocephaly may be first flashpoint in Zelenskyi era
Petro Poroshenko made autocephaly for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church a centerpiece of national strategy, used the power of…
Germany delivers Tsar Peter I’s Manifesto on Ukrainian Church to Kyiv
The document is invaluable, both culturally and historically. The Minister of Culture of Ukraine Yevhen Nyshchuk explained that…
Kyiv says 506 parishes have shifted from Moscow Church; Moscow claims only 61 have
Since the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) was formed and granted autocephaly by the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople…
Orthodox parishes in Ukraine shifting from Moscow to Kyiv at ever-increasing rate
In the first 76 days since the autocephalous Orthodox Church of Ukraine came into existence (December 15 to…
Russian Orthodox Church: Performance of song about nuking US in St. Isaac’s Cathedral ‘in bad taste’
Few stories from Russia in recent times (other than anything connected with Vladimir Putin) have sparked a larger…
Moscow church has already lost 2.5% of its parishes in Ukraine in month since autocephaly
In the month since Ukraine received autocephaly, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate has seen more…
Rash of arson attacks on Moscow Churches in Ukraine directed from Russia – SBU
When the arsons began As early as at the night of 6 February 2019, unknown persons set fire…
Orthodox Church of Ukraine won’t be a state church, Poroshenko says
On the day of the enthronement of the metropolitan of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU), President Petro…
Majority of Orthodox believers in Ukraine identify with Ukrainian church, new poll shows
A new poll conducted by the SOCIS Center, the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology and the Razumkov Centre…
Ukrainian Orthodox Church and Orthodox Church of Ukraine are now legal synonyms
Yesterday, the Ukrainian justice ministry officially registered the religious organization, “the Kyiv Metropolitanate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church…
FSB, SVR divide control of Moscow Patriarchate church at home and abroad, Ukrainian intelligence official says
The Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (ROC MP) at the present time is “99 percent controlled”…
Ukrainian autocephaly a defeat for Putin but a victory for a future Free Russia, Illarionov says
Many commentators have suggested that the grant of autocephaly to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine is a great…
Now-independent Ukrainian Orthodox church set to be major player internationally, Illarionov says
Russian commentator Andrey Illarionov has carefully compared the status of Ukrainian Orthodoxy in terms of 25 basic issues…