Russian Orthodox Church Archives - Page 4 of 7

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For Putin, Ukrainian autocephaly is as bad for Russia as USSR’s disintegration and something he won’t tolerate, Illarionov says

Vladimir Putin views autocephaly for the Ukrainian Orthodox as having an equally fateful and negative impact on Russia…

byPaul A. Goble

The Cathedral of the Dormition is one of a close to dozen cathedrals and churches at the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra in the center of the Ukrainian capital city. The Lavra is the residence of Moscow Patriarchate's exarch in Ukraine and houses the exarchate's chief monastery, theological academy and seminary. (Photo: Wikipedia)

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Moscow Patriarchate’s Church in Ukraine will survive autocephaly, but as marginal force, Yurash says

The Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC MP) will remain in existence after Ukraine forms its…

byPaul A. Goble

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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:…

byPaul A. Goble

The head of the Soviet Communist party and state Leonid Brezhnev with hierarchs of the Russian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate then-Metropolitan Alexy II and Patriarch Pimen, and the head of the Moscow Choral Synagogue Rabbi Jakov Fishman at the reception celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Communist Revolution of 1917 on October 7, 1977 (Photo: Wikipedia)

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More fallout from Ukrainian autocephaly: Russians learn Moscow Orthodox hierarchs were KGB officers

Specialists on religion in the Soviet Union have known for decades that many of the most senior hierarchs…

byPaul A. Goble

Archbishop Job of Telmessos, Permanent Representative of the Patriarchate of Constantinople to the World Council of Churches (Photo: bbc.com)

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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…

byPaul A. Goble

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Chekist Operation Trust — model for Putin’s approach to Russian Church and Russian nationalism, Khazanov-Pashkovsky says

The Trust, as a Chekist operation directed at and designed to disorder the anti-Bolshevik White emigration at the…

byPaul A. Goble

The Bessarabian Orthodox Church of Saint Theodora de la Sihla in Chişinău, Moldova built in 1895 by architect Al Bernardazzi (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

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Fight over subordination of Orthodox hierarchies spreads to Moldova

Despite the fact that Ukraine’s Orthodox church is about to be granted autocephaly and ever more people in…

byPaul A. Goble

Estonian Apostolic Orthodox Cathedral of Transfiguration in Tallinn (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

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Does Estonia’s history with two Orthodox churches have lessons for Ukraine?

Constantinople’s gift of autocephaly to Ukraine’s Orthodox church could have a very different outcome than the violent clashes…

byPaul A. Goble

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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…

byPaul A. Goble

Archbishop Sviatoslau Lohin, Primate of the Belarusian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (Image: belapc.org)

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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…

byPaul A. Goble

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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…

byPaul A. Goble

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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…

byPaul A. Goble

Bartholomew, Archbishop of Constantinople-New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch (Image: Patriarchate.org)

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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…

byPaul A. Goble

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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…

byPaul A. Goble

The Ecumenical Patriarch of the Orthodox Church, Bartholomew I of Constantinople (R) receiving Moscow Patriarch Kirill (L). Istanbul, Turkey. August 2018 (Photo: orthodoxia.info)

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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…

byPaul A. Goble

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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…

byPaul A. Goble

Interior, St. Volodymyr's Cathedral, Kiev on 2 July 2006. (Image: Robert Broadie via Wikimedia)

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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…

byPaul A. Goble

Russian Orthodox procession with protest signs against the film Mathilda in St. Petersburg, Russia, September 2017. (Image: vedomosti.ru)

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The Black Hundreds of 1917 have returned to Russia

In a classical example of Russian suggestions that “everything new is the well-forgotten old,” Nakanune commentator Elena Kiryakova…

byPaul A. Goble

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8 reasons why Russian Communism and Russian Orthodoxy are so interchangeable

Many people are surprised and others are alarmed that Russian Orthodoxy and Communism are so “easily interchangeable,” but…

byPaul A. Goble

Archbishop Eustratius (Zorya) of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate. Image: gordonua.com

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In fighting Russia, Ukraine must not become like it, Ukrainian churchman says

One of the gravest dangers — and potentially most serious defeats –any country combating an authoritarian aggressor is…

byPaul A. Goble