In Defense of the Unity of the Russian Church
17.10.2019 15:30
Statement of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church
On 17th October 2019, during a session of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church, a statement was adopted concerning the situation that arose in the Greek Orthodox Church after it convened on 12th October 2019 the extraordinary Council of Hierarchs on the Ukrainian church issue (Minutes No. 125).
07.10.2019 16:07
On the invalidity of episcopal ordinations of Ukrainian schismatics and non-canonicity of the ‘Orthodox Church of Ukraine’
COMMENTARY OF THE SECRETARIAT OF THE SYNODAL BIBLICAL-THEOLOGICAL COMMISSION
07.10.2019 14:55
Schism At The Price Of Deceit: Putting an End to the Discussion around the “Chekalin Consecrations of the So-Called “Orthodox Church of Ukraine”
On the 25th of August of the year the Ukrainian site Cerkvarium, which usually publishes critical attacks and sometimes manipulative or slanderous articles against canonical Orthodoxy and the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church, has once more tried to prove the supposed canonicity of the “consecrations” of part of the current hierarchy…
20.09.2019 11:20
Head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church representation to international organizations meets with Primate of the Polish Orthodox Church
On September 19, 2019, Bishop Victor of Baryshev, head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church representation to international organizations, with a blessing of His Beatitude Onufriy, Metropolitan of Kiev and All Ukraine, met in Warsaw with the Primate of the Polish Orthodox Church.
13.09.2019 16:58
An Open Letter from Greek Clergy and Laity on the Ukrainian Issue
One hundred and seventy-nine clergymen, monks and laypeople sent an open letter to the Primate and episcopate of the Orthodox Church of Greece, expressing their concern and alarm over the uncanonical granting of autocephaly to the Ukrainian schismatics.
14.08.2019 12:48
Schismatics capture a church of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church at Bobly village, Volyn region
On August 11, 2019, supporters of the so-called Orthodox Church in Ukraine together with three ‘priests’ of this structure unlawfully got into the Ukrainian Orthodox Church’s church of the Protecting Veil by cutting off its locks and waged a fight in it.
25.07.2019 15:13
Metropolitan Hilarion: Recognition of the OCU by any Church will only deepen the division
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Department for external church relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, gave an interview to the RIA NOVOSTI.
25.07.2019 13:48
THEOLOGY OF THE LOVE OF POWER OR HOW A LAYMAN TEACHES BISHOPS On admonitions of Vlasios Phidas to the Serbian Church
Recently, the well-known Greek theologian, Prof. Vlasios Phidas, in his article The Autocephaly of the Church of Ukraine and Objections to the Serbian Church[[i]] descended upon His Holiness Patriarch Irenaeus of Serbia, to be more precise, upon the position of the Serbian Orthodox Church on the Ukrainian issue expressed in…
10.07.2019 16:33
Metropolitan Hilarion: Events in Ukraine have shown that the structures created by Patriarch Bartholomew are unviable
On July 6, 2019, during the Church and the World talk show broadcast on Saturdays and Sundays by Russia 24 TV channel, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations, answered questions from the channel presenter Ekaterina Gracheva.
08.07.2019 21:34
Cleric and his flock have returned from schism to canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church
On 8 July 2019, Metropolitan Antony of Borispol and Brovary, chancellor of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, met with a community of the Church of the Dormition in the village of Morozovka, Borispol diocese. Rev. Nikolai Brega, suspended for his deviation into the schism, repented and expressed his wish to return…