Home page News
Russian Orthodox Church Inter-Council Presence’s commis…

Russian Orthodox Church Inter-Council Presence’s commission for opposing and overcoming church schisms meets in Kiev

[gallery]
The ROC Inter-Council Presence’s commission for opposing and overcoming church schisms met for a regular session on September 19, 2011, at the Kiev Laura of the Caves.

The chairman of the commission, His Beatitude Metropolitan Vladimir of Kiev and All Ukraine, sent the participants a message of greetings, assuring them of his prayers for the success of their work and noting that the main factor of their work lies in ‘the profound awareness of the abnormality of the situation when the faithful find themselves outside the saving fold of the Orthodox Church’. One of the causes of this situation is the cooling of love and the penetration of the church fold by ‘the spirit of this age – the spirit of division and pride’. For this reason, to make their work a success the commission members ‘should be filled with the spirit of unity, peace, patience and all-forgiving love of Christ’. Only this way the commission will be able ‘to offer the conciliar mind of the Russian Orthodox Church canonically right and evangelical in spirit ways of overcoming internal church divisions and schisms’.

Reminding the commission that ‘to pray for the preservation of church unity and to heal divisions is a duty of every bishop, priest and lay Orthodox Christian’, His Beatitude wished the commission ‘successful work and worthy fruits of joint efforts for which it members will not be ashamed before the Head of our Church – our Lord Jesus Christ and before His Holiness the Patriarch, the Inter-Council Presence’s Presidium and Councils of the Russian Orthodox Church’.

Due to an operation Metropolitan Vladimir had undergone, the commission was chaired by his deputy, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations.

The meeting was also attended by Archbishop Mitrofan of Belaya Tserkov and Boguslavsk, chancellor of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church; Archbishop Alexander of Pereyaslavl-Khmelnitsky, head of the UOC department for external church relations; Bishop Markell of Beltsy and Falesht, Archpriest Nikolay Balashov, DECR vice-chairman and secretary of the commission; Archpriest Andrey Novikov, secretary of the Odessa diocesan administration; Hegumen Serapion (Mit’ko), Rev. Ioann Miroliubov, Rev. Maxim Plyakin, and Mr. A. Maler.

The commission considered the improved draft document ‘On the coordination of work to consolidate church unity and to prevent church schisms’ and approved it with amendments and additions. The commission members also considered the progress made in drafting a document ‘On measures for overcoming consequences of the 17th century church division’ and agreed to continue working at it.

The commission also discussed a further work plan.

The participants in the meeting lifted up a prayer for a speedy recovery of His Beatitude Metropolitan Vladimir of Kiev and All Ukraine.

DECR Communication Service

Share:
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill meets with the Chairman of the Senate of the Republic of Kazakhstan

22.11.2024

Phone conversation took place between the Primates of Russian and Serbian Orthodox Churches

17.11.2024

Telephone conversation held between His Holiness Patriarch Kirill and the Primate of the Malankara Church of India

01.11.2024

Address by His Holiness Patriarch Kirill at the VIII World Congress of Compatriots Living Abroad

30.10.2024

Order of Right-Believing Prince Daniel of Moscow presented to Metropolitan Anthony of Volokolamsk by Patriarch Kirill

24.10.2024

Primate of the Russian Church celebrates Divine Liturgy in the Holy Trinity and St. Sergius Lavra on the commemoration day of St. Sergius of Radonezh

09.10.2024

His Holiness Patriarch Kirill celebrates Little Vespers and Akathistos hymn to St. Sergius in the Lavra of the Holy Trinity and St. Sergius

07.10.2024

Message from the Primate of the Russian Church to His Holiness Patriarch Porfirije of Serbia in connection with blasphemous act on the ruins of ancient Ulpiana

14.09.2024

His Holiness Patriarch Kirill celebrates on the feast of the 300th anniversary of the transfer of relics of St.Alexander Nevsky to St. Petersburg

12.09.2024

His Holiness Patriarch Kirill celebrates All-night Vigil at the Christ the Savior Cathedral on the eve of Transfiguration

18.08.2024

His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus' met with the Ambassador of India to Russia

30.07.2024

Catholicos-Patriarch Mar Awa III: Ukrainian government’s support for schism and persecution of the major canonical Church is a religious pogrom against the faithful Orthodox Christians of that country

24.07.2024

Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church consecrates the Holy Transfiguration Cathedral in the city of Tver.

21.07.2024

His Holiness Patriarch Kirill celebrates Liturgy at the Lavra of the Holy Trinity and St. Sergius on the commemoration day of the saint

18.07.2024

The Primate of the Russian Church celebrates All-night Vigil at the Lavra of the Holy Trinity and St. Sergius

17.07.2024

Metropolitan Hilarion: Many things in a person's life depend on faith

29.08.2021

Metropolitan Hilarion: The Holy Spirit is the main treasure of the Christian soul

01.08.2021

Metropolitan Hilarion: Holiness is a constant striving to imitate the Lord Jesus Christ

27.06.2021

Metropolitan Hilarion: God does not want to condemn, but to save us

07.03.2021

Metropolitan Hilarion: The Lord always grants to us the opportunity to display our talents

24.01.2021

Metropolitan Hilarion: The Lord has imbued the waters of Jordan with his divine presence to wash away human sins

19.01.2021

Metropolitan Hilarion: to repent means to change your way of life

17.01.2021

On commemoration day of St. Catherine, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk officiated at the Church of St. Catherine the Great Martyr In-the-Fields  the representation of the Orthodox Church in America

07.12.2020

Metropolitan Hilarion: We can always show compassion for people

29.11.2020

Metropolitan Hilarion celebrates on commemoration day of St. Varlaam of Khutyn at the church of ‘Joy to All the Afflicted’ icon of the Mother of God

19.11.2020

Metropolitan Hilarion: We should remember that the life of each human being is in the hands of God

06.11.2020

Metropolitan Hilarion: For God there is nothing impossible

25.10.2020

Metropoplitan Hilarion: The cross which was an instrument of dishonourable execution becomes the symbol of salvation for millions of people

27.09.2020

Metropolitan Hilarion: Eucharist is the wedding feast, to which Lord Jesus Christ invites each of us

13.09.2020

Metropolitan Hilarion: Faith alone is not enough for salvation

30.08.2020

Page is available in the following languages
Feedback

Fields marked by * are mandatory required

Send a message
Рус Укр Eng Deu Ελλ Fra Ita Бълг ქარ Срп Rom عرب