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5 October 2024 year 10:34

Η Ύπατη Αρμοστεία του ΟΗΕ για τα Ανθρώπινα Δικαιώματα διαπίστωσε τη συνεχιζόμενη πίεση της ουκρανικής κυβέρνησης στην Εκκλησία

Αυτό αναφέρεται στην εισήγηση της Διεύθυνσης του Ύπατου Αρμοστή του ΟΗΕ για τα Ανθρώπινα Δικαιώματα (ΔΥΑΑΔ) σχετικά με την κατάσταση στην Ουκρανία την περίοδο από 1ης Ιουνίου έως 31ης Αυγούστου.

2 October 2024 year 16:19

Catholicos Aram I sent a letter of support to the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church

Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia of the Armenian Apostolic Church Aram I, in response to the appeal of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus' dated August 23, regarding the ongoing persecutions by the Ukrainian authorities against the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, sent a letter of support to the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church.

21 September 2024 year 11:41

Last UOC church in Irpin was seized

On 19th September, in the Ukrainian city of Irpin, Kyiv region, a group of the OCU raiders, assisted by Mayor Oleksandr Markushyn and the police, seized St. Nicholas Church and the Holy Resurrection Chapel.

21 September 2024 year 10:28

Schismatic group’s activists seize UOC church in Kalyta village

The OCU supporters seized the Church of St. Nicholas of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Kalyta village, Kyiv region, Ukraine.

Documents

22 August 2024 year 12:00

Statement by the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church concerning the bill adopted by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine with the aim of liquidating the Ukrainian Orthodox Church
[Documents]

On 22nd August, members of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church held a remote meeting to approve the text of the statement published below (Minutes No. 102).

17 May 2024 year 19:21

Statement of the Synodal Department for Church’s Relations with Society and Mass Media regarding the demolition of the Tithes Monastery
[Documents]

The Russian Orthodox Synodal Department for Church’s Relations with Society and Mass Media has issued a statement regarding the demolition of the Tithes (Desyatynny) Monastery in Kiev.

24 April 2024 year 17:35

Statement by Department for Church’s Relations with Society and Mass Media concerning detention of Metropolitan Arseny of Sviatohirsk, abbot of Sviatohirsk Lavra
[Documents]

The Synodal Department for Church’s Relations with Society and Mass Media issued a statement concerning the detention of Metropolitan Arseny of Sviatohirsk, abbot of the Holy Dormition Sviatohirsk Lavra.

30 October 2023 year 09:30

Circular letter of the Moscow Patriarchate Chancellor on prayers for hierarchs and clerics of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church held prisoners
[Documents]

The circular letter of Metropolitan Grigoriy, chancellor of the Moscow Patriarchate, dated October 26, has been published on the official website of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Publications

28 August 2024 year 20:36

Metropolitan of Dabar-Bosnia Hrizostom: “The actions of the Kiev authorities with regard to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church are unprecedented”
[Interview]

The actions of the Kievan Nazi regime with regard to the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church are unprecedented and are worthy only of contempt. Thus speaks the metropolitan of Dabar-Bosnia Hrizostom, head of the metropolitanate of Serbian Orthodox Church with its centre in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina in an exclusive interview with Rossiiskaya Gazeta.

18 May 2024 year 11:28

Bishop Gerasim of Gornji Karlovac: We have no right to be silent about sufferings of Ukrainian Orthodox Church
[Greetings and addresses]

Bishop Gerasim of Gornji Karlovac (Serbian Patriarchate), together with the clergy and flock of the Gornji Karlovac Diocese, sent an open letter of support to the long-suffering archpastors and God-loving faithful people of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

29 February 2024 year 14:21

Metropolitan Hilarion of Budapest and Hungary: Vatican concedes to liberals on the issue of same-sex couples
[Interview]

His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus’ is considering the conclusion of the Synodal Biblical Theological Commission on the Catholic declaration "Fiducia supplicans". The declaration, recently adopted by the Congregation for Doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church, deals with the blessing of unmarried heterosexual unions and same-sex couples.

13 January 2024 year 18:04

Metropolitan Theodosius (Snihiriov): ‘The world community is standing up in defence of our Church’
[Interview]

Interview with Metropolitan Theodosius (Snihiriov) by Deacon Serhiy Heruk.

Patriarchate of Jerusalem urges the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine to repeal the anti-Church law

Statement by the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church concerning the bill adopted by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine with the aim of liquidating the Ukrainian Orthodox Church
[Documents]

Statement in connection with the prohibition of access of teachers and students of Kiev Theological Schools to the territory of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra
[Documents]

News

Η Ύπατη Αρμοστεία του ΟΗΕ για τα Ανθρώπινα Δικαιώματα διαπίστωσε τη συνεχιζόμενη πίεση της ουκρανικής κυβέρνησης στην Εκκλησία

Catholicos Aram I sent a letter of support to the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church

Last UOC church in Irpin was seized

Schismatic group’s activists seize UOC church in Kalyta village

Documents

Statement by the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church concerning the bill adopted by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine with the aim of liquidating the Ukrainian Orthodox Church
[Documents]

Statement of the Synodal Department for Church’s Relations with Society and Mass Media regarding the demolition of the Tithes Monastery
[Documents]

Statement by Department for Church’s Relations with Society and Mass Media concerning detention of Metropolitan Arseny of Sviatohirsk, abbot of Sviatohirsk Lavra
[Documents]

Circular letter of the Moscow Patriarchate Chancellor on prayers for hierarchs and clerics of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church held prisoners
[Documents]

Publications

Metropolitan of Dabar-Bosnia Hrizostom: “The actions of the Kiev authorities with regard to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church are unprecedented”
[Interview]

Bishop Gerasim of Gornji Karlovac: We have no right to be silent about sufferings of Ukrainian Orthodox Church
[Greetings and addresses]

Metropolitan Hilarion of Budapest and Hungary: Vatican concedes to liberals on the issue of same-sex couples
[Interview]

Metropolitan Theodosius (Snihiriov): ‘The world community is standing up in defence of our Church’
[Interview]

Documents and Studies

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

Учреждение автокефалии: канонический аспект

Критика чрезмерной икономии Константинопольского Патриархата по отношению к раскольникам, составившим «Православную церковь Украины»

Кто является главой Церкви? К вопросу о теории первенства

Доклад митрополита Будапештского Илариона на Архиерейском Совещании Русской Православной Церкви

Об искажении православного учения о Церкви в деяниях иерархии Константинопольского Патриархата и выступлениях его представителей

Можно ли говорить об иерархии среди Предстоятелей Поместных Церквей? Термин ἱεραρχία в византийской традиции

Video

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

Interview

Statement by the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church concerning the bill adopted by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine with the aim of liquidating the Ukrainian Orthodox Church[Documents]

Statement in connection with the prohibition of access of teachers and students of Kiev Theological Schools to the territory of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra[Documents]

Statement by the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church concerning the bill adopted by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine with the aim of liquidating the Ukrainian Orthodox Church[Documents]

Statement of the Synodal Department for Church’s Relations with Society and Mass Media regarding the demolition of the Tithes Monastery[Documents]

Statement by Department for Church’s Relations with Society and Mass Media concerning detention of Metropolitan Arseny of Sviatohirsk, abbot of Sviatohirsk Lavra[Documents]

Circular letter of the Moscow Patriarchate Chancellor on prayers for hierarchs and clerics of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church held prisoners[Documents]

Metropolitan of Dabar-Bosnia Hrizostom: “The actions of the Kiev authorities with regard to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church are unprecedented”[Interview]

Bishop Gerasim of Gornji Karlovac: We have no right to be silent about sufferings of Ukrainian Orthodox Church[Greetings and addresses]

Metropolitan Hilarion of Budapest and Hungary: Vatican concedes to liberals on the issue of same-sex couples[Interview]

Metropolitan Theodosius (Snihiriov): ‘The world community is standing up in defence of our Church’[Interview]

Statement by the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church concerning the bill adopted by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine with the aim of liquidating the Ukrainian Orthodox Church
[Documents]

Statement in connection with the prohibition of access of teachers and students of Kiev Theological Schools to the territory of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra
[Documents]

Statement by the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church concerning the bill adopted by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine with the aim of liquidating the Ukrainian Orthodox Church
[Documents]

Statement of the Synodal Department for Church’s Relations with Society and Mass Media regarding the demolition of the Tithes Monastery
[Documents]

Statement by Department for Church’s Relations with Society and Mass Media concerning detention of Metropolitan Arseny of Sviatohirsk, abbot of Sviatohirsk Lavra
[Documents]

Circular letter of the Moscow Patriarchate Chancellor on prayers for hierarchs and clerics of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church held prisoners
[Documents]

Metropolitan of Dabar-Bosnia Hrizostom: “The actions of the Kiev authorities with regard to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church are unprecedented”
[Interview]

Bishop Gerasim of Gornji Karlovac: We have no right to be silent about sufferings of Ukrainian Orthodox Church
[Greetings and addresses]

Metropolitan Hilarion of Budapest and Hungary: Vatican concedes to liberals on the issue of same-sex couples
[Interview]

Metropolitan Theodosius (Snihiriov): ‘The world community is standing up in defence of our Church’
[Interview]