Русская версияУкраинская версияМолдавская версияГреческая версияАнглийская версия

His Holiness Patriarch Kirill ceases liturgical commemoration of His Beatitude Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens

His Holiness Patriarch Kirill ceases liturgical commemoration of His Beatitude Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens
Version for print
3 November 2019 year 12:07

On 3rd November 2019, 20th Sunday after Pentecost, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, while celebrating the Divine Liturgy at the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow, did not commemorate in the diptychs the name of His Beatitude Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and All Greece.

By its decision of 17th October 2019, the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church authorized His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia “to cease the commemoration of the name of His Beatitude Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and All Greece in the diptychs in the event that the Primate of the Greek Church will begin to commemorate the head of one of the Ukrainian schismatic groups during divine services or will take other actions indicating his recognition of the Ukrainian church schism.”

On 29th October 2019 it was reported that Archbishop Ieronymos sent a letter to the head of the so-called “Orthodox church of Ukraine” on 21st October, by which the Church of Greece confirmed its recognition of this schismatic structure.

According to the decision of the Holy Synod, the Russian Orthodox Church will maintain with her brothers in the Greek Orthodox Church “the living prayerful, canonical and Eucharistic ties – through all those archpastors and pastors who have already spoken or will speak in future against the recognition of the Ukrainian schism, who will not stain their name by con-celebrating with the schismatic false hierarchs.”

Synodal Department for Church’s Relations with Society and Mass Media/Patriarchia.ru

Version: Russian

Materials on the theme

Holy Synod calls upon international community to speak out in defence of persecuted Ukrainian Orthodox Church

Holy Synod establishes impossibility of commemorating new Primate of the Church of Cyprus

Synod: Decisions of the Patriarchate of Alexandria on the hierarchs and clerics of the Russian Orthodox Church are invalid

The Holy Synod deems it important to draw attention to violations of the rights of believers in Ukraine

Archbishop Theodosios of Sebastia: The Orthodox Church is subjected to unprecedented persecution and violence in Ukraine

Archbishop Theodosius of Sebastia: the oppression to which the Ukrainian Orthodox Church is subjected is unjust and cannot be justified or accepted in any form

The Serbian Patriarch pointed to the escalating intolerance of the Ukrainian authorities towards the Ukrainian Orthodox Church

Security service executes a search of the Ukrainian Orthodox hierarch who defends the rights of believers

Ukrainian authorities try to withhold information from world community regarding facts of violation of believers’ rights

Hundreds of Vinnytsia citizens gather for prayer outside UOC church previously closed by OCU activists

Metropolitan Theodosy of Cherkassy and Kanev: Тhe truth on the situation of the believers of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church is entering Western society

Lectures on Orthodox ecclesiology held in Belarusian Exarchate’s dioceses

Патриаршая проповедь в день памяти святителя Петра после Литургии в Успенском соборе Московского Кремля [Patriarch : Sermons]

Archbishop Theodosius of Sebastia visited the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission

Patriarch Kirill gives his blessing to offering up fervent prayers for archpastors and clerics of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church striving to preserve church unity

Archbishop Theodosios of Sebastia: The Orthodox Church is subjected to unprecedented persecution and violence in Ukraine

Archbishop Theodosius of Sebastia: the oppression to which the Ukrainian Orthodox Church is subjected is unjust and cannot be justified or accepted in any form

The Serbian Patriarch pointed to the escalating intolerance of the Ukrainian authorities towards the Ukrainian Orthodox Church

Отношения Московского и Константинопольского Патриархатов в 1960-е — начале 1970-х годов по материалам архива Отдела внешних церковных связей [Article]

Metropolitan Seraphim of Kythira calls Orthodox Churches to assess antispiritual actions of Ukrainian authorities

Circular letter to all diocesan hierarchs of the Russian Orthodox Church [Documents]

Вклад Святейшего Патриарха Кирилла в укрепление межправославного единства на фоне вторжения Константинопольского Патриархата на Украину [Article]

The Piraeus Metropolis’ Department of Heresies and Cults calls to condemn ‘the legalization’ of the Ukrainian schismatics