In Defense of the Unity of the Russian Church
28.02.2019 9:22
Serbian Orthodox Church formulates its official position on ecclesiastical situation in Ukraine
The Press and Mass Information Bureau of the Serbian Orthodox Church spread a statement emphasizing, in particular, that the only Church known to and recognized by the Serbian Patriarchate in Ukraine is the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church led by His Beatitude Metropolitan Onufry of Kiev and All Ukraine.
26.02.2019 16:01
On the situation of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church
The statement was adopted at the session of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church on 26 February 2019.
25.02.2019 16:02
Two parishioners of canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church are injured during a seizure of church building by schismatics
On February 22, 2019, in Zhidichin village, Kivertsy district, Volyn region, Ukraine, a group of raiders in the presence of representatives of the “Kiev Patriarchate” cut the lock off the door of the Church of St. Nicholas belonging to the canonical Church and seized it
25.02.2019 15:58
In Volyn region authorities and schismatics try to “transfer” a monastery of the canonical Church to the OCU jurisdiction
The matter of jurisdiction of the Monastery of the Holy Dormition of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Nizkinichi village, Volyn region, Ukraine, was on the agenda of two meetings held simultaneously – a gathering at a local school and an assembly of believers at the monastery.
25.02.2019 14:55
Provocations against communities of Ukrainian Orthodox Church take place in five villages in Bukovina
On 24 February 2019, activists of the so-called OCU organized provocations in the five villages of the diocese of Chernovtsy and Bukovina – Berezhnitsa, Berezhonka, Zadubrovka, Vaslovtsy and Tovtry.
21.02.2019 8:56
Metropolitan Nikiphoros of Kykkos and Tillyria: Patriarch Bartholomew’s granting status of autocephalous Church to schismatic community of Philaret and Epifaniy has not healed Ukrainian schism but deepened and aggravated it
The full text of the memo on the situation in church life in Ukraine drafted by Metropolitan Nikiphoros of Kykkos and Tillyria for the Synod of the Orthodox Church of Cyprus
20.02.2019 18:52
Chancellor of Ukrainian Orthodox Church meets with Catholicos-Patriarch Iliya II of All Georgia
February 21, 2019 – Metropolitan Anthony of Borispol and Brovary, chancellor of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, met with His Holiness and Beatitude Iliya II, Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, at his residence in the city of Tbilisi.
20.02.2019 14:39
Synod of the Orthodox Church of Cyprus does not recognize “Orthodox church of Ukraine”
On 18 February 2019, the Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church of Cyprus held an extraordinary session under the chairmanship of His Beatitude Archbishop Chrysostomos of New Justiniana and All Cyprus to discuss the situation surrounding the church life in Ukraine.
19.02.2019 21:19
Archbishop Mark of Berlin and Germany: Actions of the Patriarchate of Constantinople pave the way for confusion, pain and dissension for years to come
Archbishop Mark of Berlin and Germany, hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, appealed to the members of the German Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops with an open letter in which he expressed his diocese’s position concerning the situation in the Orthodox world caused by the decisions of…
18.02.2019 19:27
Metropolitan Mitrofan detained by Ukrainian police
On February 18, 2019, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church information-education department reported with reference to the website of the Gorlovka diocese that Metropolitan Mitrofan of Gorlovka and Slavyansk was detained at a checkpoint and convoyed to the Slavyansk municipal police office.