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Is Patriarch Bartholomew following the path of legalizing the Macedonian schism? Photo: UOJ

Did Phanar take the Path of Recognizing Macedonian Schismatics?

By Webmaster on January 8, 2022 Governance & Unity Essays, Governance & Unity News

Source: Union of Orthodox Journalists Originally published on December 20, 2021 by Kirill Aleksandrov The Phanar received Macedonian schismatics. What is this – revenge to the Serbian Church for non-recognizing the OCU or a global policy of legalizing all schismatics? On 16 December, Patriarch Bartholomew received a delegation from the so-called Macedonian Church at the Phanar. Does this mean the start of another Tomos for the schismatics, and how might this affect the entire Orthodoxy? The delegation of the “Macedonian Orthodox Church” at the Phanar. Photo: religija.mk Analyzing the visit of the Macedonian schismatics to the Phanar, three points should be noted: The delegation…

Patriarch Kirill and Patriarch Bartholomew

PATRIARCH BARTHOLOMEW CLOSES HIS EYES TO SCHISM HE CREATED, ACCUSES PATRIARCH KIRILL OF PAPAL PRETENSIONS

By Webmaster on January 5, 2021 Governance & Unity Essays, Governance & Unity News

Source: Orthodox Christianity Istanbul, January 5, 2021 According to Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, there is no schism within the Orthodox Church today. And although he is often accused of neopapism, it is in fact the Patriarch of Moscow who harbors papal pretensions, the primate of Constantinople said in an interview with To Vima published yesterday. On October 15, 2018, the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church took the painful but necessary step of breaking Eucharistic communion with the Patriarchate of Constantinople after the latter unilaterally invaded Ukrainian Church territory, received defrocked and anathematized schismatics back into communion without any due process…

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GREEK CHURCH RECOGNIZES UKRAINIAN SCHISMATICS…OR DID THEY? PERSPECTIVES FOR THE FUTURE

By Webmaster on October 18, 2019 Governance & Unity Essays, Governance & Unity News

Source: Orthodox Christianity On Saturday, October 12, 2019, the Orthodox world was shocked by perhaps the most predictable catastrophe—news that the Greek Orthodox Church has recognized the schismatic OCU. That was until conflicting reports came out, and now it’s possible there is an internal conflict within the Greek Church over this matter. As a general disclaimer, when discussing the situation surrounding the Greek Church’s recognition (or lack thereof), of the OCU, we are currently entering the realm of informed speculation. Unless one was present during the council meetings in Athens, we don’t truly know what happened, especially not until more news comes…

A lot depends on the word of Archbishop Ieronymos now. Photo: UOJ

Will Archbishop Ieronymos pronounce Orthodoxy-splitting words?

By Webmaster on October 17, 2019 Governance & Unity Essays, Governance & Unity News

Source: Union of Orthodox Journalists Konstantin Shemliuk The decisions of the Council of the Greek Church can be interpreted either way. Only commemoration of Epiphany will tell if tectonic shifts are to begin in Orthodoxy. The decision of the Council of Bishops of the Greek Church on Ukrainian autocephaly stirred up commotion throughout Orthodox world. A lot of bishops, priests and lay people, as well as the media perceived it as recognition of the OCU by the Hellenic Church. From various sources it became known that only 7 (according to other information, 12) out of 69 hierarchs disagreed to the decision of the Council…

Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church

Statement of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church

By Webmaster on October 17, 2019 Governance & Unity News, Governance Top Stories

Source: 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). Members of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church have acquainted themselves with the published in the mass media documents of the extraordinary Council of Hierarchs of the Greek Orthodox Church held on 12th October 2019, in particular, with the communiqué of the Council and the report…

The current behavior of Patriarch Bartholomew is strongly reminiscent of the actions of Filaret in 1992. Photo: SPJ

A Path of Schism: Will Patriarch Bartholomew Share the Fate of Filaret?

By Webmaster on September 27, 2019 Governance & Unity Essays, Governance & Unity News

Source: Union of Orthodox Journalists Taras Rebikov Will the Local Churches decide to convene a Pan-Orthodox Council and what will it entail for Phanar and Ukraine? Nine months have passed since the day when Phanar recognized the Ukrainian schismatics. Over this time, several things became apparent. Firstly, the Tomos not only failed to heal the split in Ukraine, but exacerbated it even more. Secondly, it caused a split within the existing secession. Thirdly, the Tomos can now be called one of the main reasons for a hypothetic pan-Orthodox split (in addition to the power-hungry Patriarch Bartholomew and Phanar as a whole). The…

Patriarch Bartholomew did not heal but legalized the schism in Ukraine. Photo: UOJ

Healing the schism a la Phanar: if schismatics are grace-filled

By Webmaster on September 7, 2019 Governance & Unity Essays, Governance & Unity News

Source: Union of Orthodox Journalists Taras Rebikov In an attempt to justify its concelebration with the Ukrainian schismatics, Constantinople descends to a distortion of facts and a blatant lie. The most inexplicable story in the history of the creation of the OCU for the Orthodox World was the question of how the Phanar was going to solve the obvious problem of the “hierarchs” of the UOC-KP and UAOC having no canonical ordinations. In the autumn and winter of 2018, when it became clear that the Patriarchate of Constantinople was determined to give autocephaly to the schismatic structures, there were various…

Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church of Greece

GREEK CHURCH DOESN’T WANT TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR A SCHISM IN ORTHODOXY—UKRAINIAN CHURCH SPEAKER

By Webmaster on August 30, 2019 Governance & Unity Essays, Governance & Unity News

Source: Orthodox Christianity KIEV – The Greek Orthodox Church does not want to enter into a direct confrontation with the Patriarchate of Constantinople, but clearly understands that for any Local Church to recognize the schismatic “Orthodox Church of Ukraine” (OCU) would be to divide the Orthodox world into two parts, Archpriest Nikolai Danilevich, Deputy Head of the canonical Ukrainian Church’s Department for External Church Relations, commented in an interview with First Cossack, reports the Union of Orthodox Journalists. “The text of the Synod’s decision became the basis for some news agencies to say that the Greek Church recognized the means of…

Archbishop Elpidophoros (Lambriniadis)

ARCHBISHOP OF AMERICA ELPIDOPHOROS, OR THE END OF ALL ILLUSIONS ABOUT THE PHANAR

By Webmaster on July 4, 2019 Governance & Unity Essays, Governance & Unity News, Uncategorized

Source: Orthodox Christianity Arkady Maler The author of this analysis of the current threat hanging over world Orthodoxy, Arkady Maler, is a scholar and teacher of philosophy specializing in Russian religious philosophy. He is a member of the Synodal Biblical-Theological Commission of the Inter-Council Presence of the Moscow Patriarchate and founder of Moscow’s “Byzantine Club”. Maler is the author of four religious-philosophical books, which include the theme of Constantine the Great, and Russia’s spiritual mission. A half a year did not go by from the formation by the Constantinople Patriarchate of a hastily-cobbled, politically strategic, fake church in Ukraine under…

Phanar rejects pan-Orthodox discussion of the Ukrainian question

By Webmaster on March 1, 2019 Governance & Unity News, Governance Top Stories

Source: Union of Orthodox Journalists by Olga Tsviliy Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople Patriarch Bartholomew rejected the proposal of the Primate of the Antioch Orthodox Church to hold a pan-Orthodox discussion of the religious situation in Ukraine. In a letter to the Primate of the Antiochian Orthodox Church, Patriarch John X, Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople declared that “he has good reasons” to refrain from a general Orthodox meeting on the Ukrainian church issue, reports the official website of the Russian Orthodox Church. Patriarch Bartholomew called the discussion of the religious situation in Ukraine “useless” and reminded the Primate of the Antiochian Church…

Removing Orthodoxy’s Threatening Schism

By Webmaster on February 4, 2019 Governance & Unity Essays, Governance & Unity News

Source: The National Herald By Dennis Menos It’s been almost a month since Patriarch Kirill of Moscow suspended Eucharistic Communion between the Church of Russia and the Ecumenical Patriarchate, in response to the granting by Patriarch Bartholomew of the Tomos of Autocephaly to the Church of the Ukraine. By his action, the Russian Patriarch set into motion a schism within Orthodoxy with a potential for harming not only the relations between Moscow and Constantinople, but also between other Churches within the Orthodox family. One would assume that because of the seriousness of the Russian action and its potential for damage,…

“I had no idea what they wanted and still don’t,” said The Rev. Oleksandr Kolesov, a Russian Orthodox priest in Ukraine who was interrogated by the Ukrainian security agency.CreditCreditBrendan Hoffman for The New York Times

As Ukraine and Russia Battle Over Orthodoxy, Schism Looms

By Webmaster on December 31, 2018 Governance & Unity News, Governance Top Stories

Source: The New York Times By Andrew Higgins CHERNYTSYA, Ukraine — Ukraine is on the verge of opening the biggest schism in Christianity in centuries, as it breaks from the authority of a Moscow-based patriarch and this week expects to formally gain recognition for its own church, taking tens of millions of followers. Intensifying a millennium-old religious struggle freighted with 21st-century geopolitical baggage, Ukraine’s security services have in recent weeks interrogated priests loyal to Moscow, searched church properties and enraged their Russian rivals. “They just want to frighten us,” said the Rev. Vasily Nachev, one of more than a dozen priests…

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