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5 January 2022 year 19:27

Bishop Irinej of Bačka: "The Canonical Church in Ukraine remains to be the largest and predominant"

On December 31, 2021, the Serbian weekly news magazine "Pečat" published an interview with Bishop Irinej of Bačka, in which, among other things, he shared his thoughts about similar historical ways of the Russian and Serbian Orthodox Churches, underlining the importance of maintaining fraternal relations between these two largest Local Orthodox Churches of the Slavic world.

3 January 2022 year 14:45

Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk recounts the formation of the Patriarchal Exarchate of Africa

The decision of the Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church to take 102 clerics of the Orthodox Church of Alexandria from eight African countries under the omophorion of the Moscow Patriarchate and to form a Patriarchal Exarchate of Africa has become resonant.

29 December 2021 year 17:48

The Holy Synod resolves to form a Patriarchal Exarchate of Africa

The head of the Synodal Department for the Church’s Relations with Society and Mass Media, Vladimir Legoida, reported on the resolutions adopted by the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church at its meeting held on December 29, in the Patriarchal and Synodal Residence at the St. Daniel Monastery in Moscow.

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28 December 2021 year 11:11

A new church of the UOC consecrated to replace seized one by OCU in Zhytomyr region

On December 25, on the feast day of St. Spyridon of Trimythous, Metropolitan Nikodim of Zhytomyr and Novohrad-Volynsky performed the rite of consecration of the church of the "Quick to Hearken" Icon of the Mother of God in the village of Levkiv, Zhytomyr region.

Documents

30 July 2021 year 14:17

An appeal by monastics of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church to Patriarch Bartholomew has been published
[Documents]

The Ukrainian Orthodox Church published the appeal of monastics to Patriarchah Bartholomew of Constantinople, adopted at the Congress at the Holy Dormition Pochaiv Lavra on July 15. The text signed by the delegates and the chairman of the Congress, Metropolitan Pavel of Vyshgorod and Chernobyl, was published on the website of the Holy Dormition Kiev-Pechersk Lavra on July 29.

28 October 2020 year 18:35

Archbishop Chrysostomos of Cyprus: Position of the Russian Church on the Ukrainian autocephaly is fair and wholly justified
[Documents]

In connection with the fact that on October 24, His Beatitude Chrysostomos II, Archbishop of New Justiniana and All Cyprus, recognized one of the Ukrainian schismatic communities and with the comments he gave on this occasion to the press, published below is the text of the message of greeting that His Beatitude had sent to His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia in 2018 on the occasion of the celebrations devoted to the 1030th anniversary of the Baptism of Russia.

26 October 2020 year 12:29

Statement of hierarchs of the Orthodox Church of Cyprus on the Archbishop Chrysostomos’ liturgical mention of head of the so-called Orthodox Church of Ukraine Epifaniy Dumenko
[Documents]

24 октября митрополит Лимассольский Афанасий, митрополит Киккский Никифор, митрополит Тамассоский Исаия и епископ Амафунтский Николай выступили с совместным заявлением по вопросу о признании так называемой Православной церкви Украины Архиепископом Кипрским Хризостомом II, призвав Предстоятеля Кипрской Церкви немедленно отменить антиканоническое решение о включении имени главы «ПЦУ» Епифания Думенко в Диптих Предстоятелей Поместных Православных Церквей.

27 February 2020 year 01:47

Dialogue and unity
[Documents]

Press release on the results of the fraternal meeting of the Orthodox Primates and delegates (26 February 2020 – Amman, Jordan).

Publications

13 January 2022 year 10:59

Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk: Churches will have to make non-standard decisions
[Interview]

The response of the Russian Orthodox Church to the schism and new realities in the world Orthodox community, as well as the principle stand on overcoming the schism in Ukraine are the topics dealt with in the interview given to the RIA Novosti news agency by the chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk.

12 January 2022 year 11:44

Metropolitan Leonid of Klin: We will not break the local conventions and traditions of African parishes
[Interview]

In an interview to Yelena Verevkina of the Interfax-Religion portal, the hierarch said how and with whose money new parishes will develop, whether manifestations of racism are possible in the Russian Church and whether it is worth waiting for new people to join the Moscow Patriarchate at an early date.

3 January 2022 year 12:18

Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk: We believe that the schism can be healed by the conciliar wisdom of the Church
[Interview]

Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, answers questions fr om a correspondent of the RIA Novosti news agency.

31 December 2021 year 15:21

The creation of a Patriarchal exarchate in Africa. An interview with the metropolitan of Klin Leonid
[Interview]

The new exarchate is headed by the metropolitan of Klin Leonid (Gorbachev). In an exclusive interview with RIA-Novosti, he spoke of the foreseeable plans of the Church in Africa: the future of the clergy and parishioners, the construction of cathedral churches and relations with the Patriarchate of Alexandria.

The Holy Synod resolves to form a Patriarchal Exarchate of Africa

His Holiness Patriarch Kirill opens conference on primacy and conciliarity in Orthodoxy

Holy Synod states the impossibility of Eucharistic communion with Archbishop Chrysostomos of Cyprus

News

Bishop Irinej of Bačka: "The Canonical Church in Ukraine remains to be the largest and predominant"

Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk recounts the formation of the Patriarchal Exarchate of Africa

The Holy Synod resolves to form a Patriarchal Exarchate of Africa

A new church of the UOC consecrated to replace seized one by OCU in Zhytomyr region

Documents

An appeal by monastics of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church to Patriarch Bartholomew has been published
[Documents]

Archbishop Chrysostomos of Cyprus: Position of the Russian Church on the Ukrainian autocephaly is fair and wholly justified
[Documents]

Statement of hierarchs of the Orthodox Church of Cyprus on the Archbishop Chrysostomos’ liturgical mention of head of the so-called Orthodox Church of Ukraine Epifaniy Dumenko
[Documents]

Dialogue and unity
[Documents]

Publications

Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk: Churches will have to make non-standard decisions
[Interview]

Metropolitan Leonid of Klin: We will not break the local conventions and traditions of African parishes
[Interview]

Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk: We believe that the schism can be healed by the conciliar wisdom of the Church
[Interview]

The creation of a Patriarchal exarchate in Africa. An interview with the metropolitan of Klin Leonid
[Interview]

Documents and Studies

A Russian version of the book by a hierarch of the Church of Cyprus on the Ukrainian church issue has come out

Presentation of the Collection of documents about the Reunification of Kievan Metropolia with Russian Church in the 17th сentury will take place in Moscow

«Признавая полноту исключительной компетенции Вашей Святейшей Русской Церкви…»

С.Ф. Михеев, С.Н. Остапенко. Неконструктивность исторической аргументации в статье В.Г. Ченцовой «Воссоединение»

Вселенский Патриарх. История одного титула

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His Holiness Patriarch Kirill opens conference on primacy and conciliarity in Orthodoxy

Interview

An appeal by monastics of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church to Patriarch Bartholomew has been published[Documents]

Archbishop Chrysostomos of Cyprus: Position of the Russian Church on the Ukrainian autocephaly is fair and wholly justified[Documents]

Statement of hierarchs of the Orthodox Church of Cyprus on the Archbishop Chrysostomos’ liturgical mention of head of the so-called Orthodox Church of Ukraine Epifaniy Dumenko[Documents]

Dialogue and unity[Documents]

Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk: Churches will have to make non-standard decisions[Interview]

Metropolitan Leonid of Klin: We will not break the local conventions and traditions of African parishes[Interview]

Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk: We believe that the schism can be healed by the conciliar wisdom of the Church[Interview]

The creation of a Patriarchal exarchate in Africa. An interview with the metropolitan of Klin Leonid[Interview]

An appeal by monastics of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church to Patriarch Bartholomew has been published
[Documents]

Archbishop Chrysostomos of Cyprus: Position of the Russian Church on the Ukrainian autocephaly is fair and wholly justified
[Documents]

Statement of hierarchs of the Orthodox Church of Cyprus on the Archbishop Chrysostomos’ liturgical mention of head of the so-called Orthodox Church of Ukraine Epifaniy Dumenko
[Documents]

Dialogue and unity
[Documents]

Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk: Churches will have to make non-standard decisions
[Interview]

Metropolitan Leonid of Klin: We will not break the local conventions and traditions of African parishes
[Interview]

Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk: We believe that the schism can be healed by the conciliar wisdom of the Church
[Interview]

The creation of a Patriarchal exarchate in Africa. An interview with the metropolitan of Klin Leonid
[Interview]