| Archive The Serbian Church re-affirms its position on church situation in Ukraine 31 May 2019 year 22:39 His Holiness Irenaeus, Patriarch of Serbia, has familiarized His Holiness Kirill, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, with the position taken by the Serbian Orthodox Church on the Ukrainian church problems. Below is the full text of the official position formulated by the Bishops’ Council of the Serbian Orthodox Church at its session on May 14, 2019. With regard to the disputed and vitally important topic of an abnormal church situation in Ukraine that has developed after the well-known decisions and unilateral interference of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, the Sacred Bishops’ Council of the Serbian Orthodox Church officially and unanimously informs and presents to the general public that the position of our Church on this problem remains unchanged as to its previous official conciliar and synodal decisions, statements and appeals. Accordingly, the Serbian Orthodox Church does not recognize the newly formed pseudo-ecclesiastical structure in Ukraine, headed by citizens Denisenko and Dumenko, but stands in the liturgical and canonical communion only and exceptionally with the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church headed by His Beatitude Metropolitan Onufriy. It implies that our Church is in communion with all the rest canonical Orthodox Churches. We repeat once again that our Sacred Bishops’ Council makes another appeal to all to solve and resolve the church problems in Ukraine canonically, in fraternal dialogue with the Russian Orthodox Church on the whole and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in particular after a conference on the pan-Orthodox level. We send the text of our decision concurrently to the Patriarch of Constantinople and to Your Holiness and after them will immediately send it to all the rest Primates of local Orthodox Churches and, in an appropriate form, to the public both ecclesial and secular. Your brother and concelebrant always faithful to Your Holiness in the love of Christ the Saviour. + IRENAUS, Archbishop of Pec, Metropolitan of Belgrade-Karlovci Chairman of the Holy Bishops’ Council Serbian Orthodox Church DECR Communication Service /Patriarchia.ru Календарь ← 7 December 2023 year |
| Archive A church building of the canonical Church is seized in Ivano-Frankovsk region of Ukraine 18 December 2019 year 11:58 On 15 December 2019, a group of unidentified individuals broke the doors to the church of St. Demetrius of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the village of Proboinovka, Ivano-Frankovsk region, and sealed them. Website of the Ivano-Frankovsk diocese reports that the intruders who presented themselves as soldiers involved with the anti-terrorist organization, arrived at approximately 03.00 p.m. after the Sunday divine service. Last March, a meeting of the village inhabitants took place with support of the village council’s chairman. A decision was taken to transfer the community of the canonical Church to the jurisdiction of the Orthodox church in Ukraine (OCU). The rector of the church of St. Demetrius and parishioners who are the true representatives of the religious community were not present at the meeting. Often enough, a meeting of the village inhabitants is identified with a meeting of religious community, but it is not so, and therefore any taken decision carries no legal weight. However, this has not prevented the organizers of the ‘transfer’ to present to the regional state administration the minutes of the meeting and other documents and ask to re-register the community with the change of its jurisdiction of a OCU community. The data were entered into the Unified State Register of Legal Entities with the change of the name of the religious community of the church of St. Demetrius, its constitutive documents and its jurisdiction. Since then, the OCU representatives with a small number of their supporters came to the church occasionally, conducted their services on the church’s territory and exerted pressure on the believers. At present the community of the church of St. Demetrius and its rector who have remained faithful to the canonical Church is left completely on the pavement due to assistance of local authorities and is deprived of the right to pray within the walls of their church. DECR Communication Service /Patriarchia.ru Календарь ← 7 April 2024 year |
| Jerusalem Meets Russian Patriarch Kirill Jerusalem, November 10, 2012 The head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, who arrived in Jerusalem on Friday, was accompanied by a solemn procession of clerics and laypeople on his way from the Jaffa Gate to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre inside the Old City. Thousands of believers gathered in front of the church, which is the holiest site for Christians across the world, to greet Patriarch Kirill and Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos III, who met him. The two patriarchs held a short divine service. The Church of the Holy Sepulchre has for centuries been one of the most important pilgrimage destinations for millions of Christians as the purported site of the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Patriarch Theophilos III addressed Patriarch Kirill, for whom it is the first visit to the Holy Land since he was elected to head the Russian Orthodox Church in 2009, with a solemn speech, in which he noted the importance of brotherly relations between the two Orthodox Churches. Patriarch Kirill said each Christian dreams of visiting the Holy Land. “For the first time I have come to the Holy Land to offer prayers on behalf of the entire Russian Church that chose me as its Primate,” the patriarch said, adding that he will in particular pray for peace around the world. During his six-day stay, Patriarch Kirill is expected to visit Christian holy sites in Israel, the Palestinian territories and Jordan. The Church of the Holy Sepulchre earlier in November threatened to close its doors as its bank account was frozen over a debt to an Israeli water company. The church had been exempt from water charges in a tacit agreement with Jerusalem authorities for decades but the Hagihon company, which took over water supply to Jerusalem in the late 1990s, recently demanded payment of a million bill dating back 15 years, including interest. Theophilos III even wrote letters to the leaders of Russia, Israel, the United States, Greece, Cyprus and Jordan with an appeal to intervene with the standoff and put a stop “to this flagrant act against the church.” Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the presidential administration will thoroughly study Theophilos " s request for help. The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem shares control of the church with the Armenian Orthodox Patriarchate and the Roman Catholic Franciscan Order through complicated arrangements essentially unchanged for centuries. The site, located within the Christian Quarter of the walled Old City of Jerusalem, attracts more than 1 million pilgrims annually. RIA Novosti 12 ноября 2012 г. ... Комментарии Мы в соцсетях Подпишитесь на нашу рассылку |
| Archive Video meeting of representatives of the Synodal institutions of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Ethiopian Church takes place. 30 September 2023 year 10:27 On 29th September 2023, as part of the work of the commission for dialogue between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Ethiopian Church, a video meeting took place between representatives of the Synodal institutions of the two Churches. Participating on behalf of the Russian Orthodox Church were colleagues of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate S. G. Alferov and D. E. Arakelyan. The Ethiopian Church was represented by the head of the Sunday school and youth department Sintaihou Msganav and a number of his colleagues who organize the catechetical, educational and youth ministry in the Ethiopian Church. The participants of the meeting discussed relevant questions on the agenda of the relationship between the two largest Churches of the Eastern Christian world and how to put into effect projects planned by the bilateral commission. The representatives of the Ethiopian Church valued greatly the visits in recent years of delegations of the two Churches to Moscow and Addis Ababa, including the visit that took place a few days ago of the combined choir of the Holy Trinity and Saint Sergius Monastery and the Moscow Theological Academy to Ethiopia as part of the Spiritual Culture of Russia celebration taking place there. Also under review were the possibilities of organizing interchurch cooperation in the sphere of youth ministry and other areas of mutual interest. S. G. Alferov spoke to the representatives of the Ethiopian Church of the work of the special course of study on the ancient Oriental Churches at the department of ecclesiastical disciplines of the Ss. Cyril and Methodius Post-graduate Institute together with the DECR with the aim of preparing specialists in the sphere of external church relations which cover the Oriental Churches. An agreement was reached to continue similar such meetings online on a regular basis. DECR Communication Service /Patriarchia.ru Календарь ← 7 December 2023 year |
| Archive The metropolitan of Cherkasy and Kaniv Theodosius: The Ukrainian Orthodox Church preaches peace and unity 22 December 2021 year 10:09 The metropolitan of Cherkasy and Kaniv Theodosius, a bishop of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, in an interview with the A Bishop’s Word TV programme on the UkrLive TV channel, emphasized the Ukrainian Orthodox Church is the only institution in the country which has retained its borders inviolate. “The Ukrainian Orthodox Church is the Church of Christ here on the territory of our state, of our people of Ukraine,” said metropolitan Theodosius. The hierarch noted that the Church, while unable to speak openly of the wrongness of many doctrines propounded by politicians and officials for their own advantage, can nevertheless speak about peace and can even make connections where none may be found. “Within our parishes, within our monasteries, we never divide people politically or by the way they view the world,” said metropolitan Theodosius. “To the present day the Ukrainian Orthodox Church is the only institution within Ukraine that has retained its boundaries without any losses: the Ukrainian Orthodox Church is to be found in the Donbas, in Crimea, in the Chernihiv region and in western Ukraine.” According to the metropolitan, throughout the territory of all of Ukraine the parishes of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and its monasteries and, correspondingly, its faithful preserve peace and unity. “Ukraine as it was has remained within the boundaries of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. This is not simply demagogy and just talk, but the reality,” the bishop emphasized. The metropolitan of Cherkasy and Kaniv Theodosius also drew attention to the fact that the peace-making mission of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church was the object of criticism fr om some politicians and officials. “The preaching of peace today is not at all welcomed by very many people, and that is why the Church is subjected to pressure and obstruction from those people who hope to cash in dividends from hostility,” said the bishop. “It’s like being in a room of crooked mirrors wh ere everyone says that these crooked mirrors supposedly reflect the reality of what we see. But there is one mirror in which the ugly person will never see himself as attractive … And what are these people, who have become used to crooked mirrors, doing? They try to smash the one normal mirror or hide it away from sight in a cupboard so that it no longer exists. This is more or less how the Ukrainian political establishment and many officials relate today to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.” DECR Communication Service /Patriarchia.ru Календарь ← 7 December 2023 year |
| Photo exhibition dedicated to 120th anniversary of Russian church in Jaffa opens in Tel Aviv Tel Aviv, January 17, 2014 On January 15, in the Russian cultural center, a photo exhibition, dedicated to the 120th anniversary of consecration of the Church of Holy Apostle Peter and Saint Tabitha was opened at the dependency of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Abu-Kabir in Jaffa - a south suburb of Tel Aviv. In the past, Russian pilgrims would arrive at the Holy Land through the Jaffa seaport. On January 29, 1896, the church was consecrated by Patriarch Gerasimus of Jerusalem in honor of Holy Apostle Peter, who has been especially venerated in Jaffa. Representatives of the Russian embassy in Israel and of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Jerusalem, church parishioners, Israeli residents and guests from Moscow were present at the opening of the exhibition. The organizers of the exhibition are the priest in charge of the dependency of St. Tabitha in Jaffa Archpriest Igor Pchelintsev, and director of the cultural centre Natalia Yakimchuk. The exposition includes historical and modern photographs that relate the history of the dependency, building and beautification of the church on the territory of the parcel of land in Jaffa, where there was the tomb of Tabitha, who had been raised from the dead by Apostle Peter (Acts 9:36). This parcel of land was acquired in 1868 by head of the mission, Archimandrite Antonin (Kapustin, 1865–1894). Modern photographs of the Russian dependency and church interior, made by the professional photographer Reuven Brenner, are exhibited. Also some rare ancient photographs can be seen at the exhibition, which depict Grand Dukes Sergei and Paul Alexandrovich as well as Holy Grand Duchess Elisabeth Feodorovna, who were present in 1888 during the laying of the foundation stone of the future church, together with portraits of Archimandrite Antonin (Kapustin) and other figures, associated with the history of the Russian church in Jaffa. Also photographs showing stages of construction of the buildings of the church and the house for pilgrims on the territory of the dependency, are displayed. It was founded so that pilgrims, on their arrival to Jaffa and making their first steps on the Holy Land, might rest, restore their strength, pray and go further to the Holy City of Jerusalem. The exhibition in Tel Aviv also contains color photographs, which were made at the dependency over last 20 years. This collection includes photographs that tell of the visit in 1997 of His Holiness Patriarch Alexei II of Moscow and All Russia, about gilding of bells and the present-day state of the church and the dependency. At present the Russian dependency in Jaffa is considered to be one of the most beautiful places of Tel Aviv. 22 января 2014 г. Смотри также Мы в соцсетях Подпишитесь на нашу рассылку |
| Michael Prokurat, Alexander Golitzin, Michael D. Peterson Скачать epub pdf GEORGIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH GEORGIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH. Ancient Iberia, Georgia is a trans-Caucasian nation bordering Russia and Armenia, and boasts of being one of the first kingdoms to convert to Christianity. The “Apostle to the Georgians” was an anonymous woman, later given the name Nina, who converted the king, Mirian, around 330. Early placed under the jurisdiction of Antioch, the Georgian Church achieved self-governing status around 506, in connection with its (temporary) repudiation of Chalcedon in alliance with the Church of Armenia (qq.v.). The breach with Byzantium (q.v.) was repaired the following century, but the local Church retained its independence. From the 6th c. the primate of Georgia has borne the title “Catholicos,” and the Church first became autocephalous (q.v.) in the 8th c. Under constant pressure from Persia to the east, the Georgian Church and nation nonetheless achieved a peak of prosperity under the local branch of the Bagratid family (also ruling in Armenia), culminating in the “golden age” of Queen Tamara (d. 1212). Georgian manuscripts from the period of the country’s medieval zenith provide valuable materials for scholars in both Scripture and patristic (qq.v.) studies. This is largely the fruit of medieval Georgian monasticism (q.v.) from its origins in Peter the Iberian (ca. 413–491). It spread throughout the Byzantine Near East, as witnessed by the late medieval foundation on Mt. Athos (q.v.) of the monastery of Iviron. Struggles with both Iran and the Ottoman Empire (q.v.) compelled its last king to plead for Russian protection. The Georgian Kingdom was absorbed into the tsar’s Empire in 1811. Its local church became part of the Russian Church-perhaps the most notable case of Russian ecclesiastical imperialism. Autonomy was again secured, ecclesiastically if not politically, following the Bolshevik coup d’etat in 1917. It remains in effect today as the Georgian Church is experiencing a modest revival under its Catholicos, Ilias II. Читать далее Источник: The A to Z of the Orthodox Church/Michael Prokurat, Alexander Golitzin, Michael D. Peterson - Scarecrow Press, 2010. - 462 p. ISBN 1461664039 Поделиться ссылкой на выделенное |
| Archive Serbian Orthodox Church Bishops’ Council expresses its position on situation resulting from Patriarchate of Constantinople’s actions in Ukraine 13 November 2018 year 11:51 The position taken by the Serbian Orthodox Church with regard to the church crisis in Ukraine caused by the recent decisions of the Patriarchate of Constantinople has been formulated by the Bishops’ Council which took place on November 6-7, 2018, in Belgrade. As is known, by its decisions of October 11 the Patriarchate of Constantinople ‘revoked’ the decision made over 300 years ago to transfer the Metropolitan of Kiev to the jurisdiction of the Moscow Patriarchate thus encroaching on the canonical territory of the Russian Orthodox Church. In addition, in defiance of the canonical order, the Synod of the Church of Constantinople has admitted to communion the leaders of the Ukrainian schism and declared its readiness to implement a project ‘for Ukrainian autocephaly’. The Bishops Council of the Serbian Orthodox Church stated with regret that ‘the Patriarchate of Constantinople has made a decision not grounded on canons to rehabilitate and recognize as bishops the two chiefs of the schismatic groups in Ukraine – Philaret Denisenko and Makariy Maletich with their episcopate and clergy’. It is pointed out in the council’s decision that in due time the former was canonically deposed and later anathematized and the latter was deprived of the apostolic continuity as spiritually belonging to the sect of the so-called self-ordained ministers ‘due to which the Sacred Council of Bishops’ regards this decision of the Synod of Constantinople as not obligatory for the Serbian Orthodox Church’. As it is pointed out in the issued document, the Council of the Serbian Church does not recognize the above-mentioned persons and their followers as Orthodox bishops and clergy and therefore does not accept the liturgical and canonical communion with them and their supporters. The Council addressed the Patriarchate of Constantinople and all the rest Local Churches with a proposal to consider in the nearest future the issue of autocephaly and the topic of Orthodox Diaspora at a Pan-Orthodox Council ‘in order to reaffirm and strengthen the conciliarity and unity of the Orthodox Church and to avoid in the future the temptation through which Holy Orthodoxy is going now’. DECR Communication Service /Patriarchia.ru Календарь ← 7 December 2023 year |
| Archive Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk: the canonical Church in Ukraine is actually declared an outlaw 22 March 2021 year 12:41 As chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk underscored on their air of the Church and the World broadcast, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – the national Church of Ukraine, the Church of the majority of the Ukrainian population – for already several years is facing a critical situation. “The previous president of Ukraine, Poroshenko, decided to create a new ‘church’ fully independent from the Russian Orthodox Church. To do so he used the services of the Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople. The new structure was formed on the basis of a schismatic group that had existed since the early 90s and had no legitimacy whatsoever from the point of view of Orthodox canons, being just a group of imposters who were declared to be a ‘church’. Whereas the canonical Church, which has over 12 thousand parishes, several hundred monasteries, over one hundred bishops and millions of the faithful, was actually declared an outlaw’, the DECR chairman noted. He mentioned in particular the Supreme Rada Law No. 2662-VIII, on the basis of which the authorities were going to forcefully rename the Ukrainian Orthodox Church into the Russian Orthodox Church in Ukraine. ‘But it is not a Russian Church, it is a Church comprised of Ukrainians’, the hierarch underscored, ‘they have Ukrainian passports; they were born in Ukraine, and they are patriots of their country’. As of today, the application of this provision of the law to the canonical Church has been stopped but the law itself has not been cancelled. Speaking about the reasons why such actions of the state with regard to the church are inadmissible, Metropolitan Hilarion pointed out, ‘First of all, because the Church herself chooses her name. Secondly, because any forcible renaming of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the present situation will lead to the need for her to re-register all her dioceses and parishes, and this means that in each particular place, the faithful, clergy, episcopate will be subjected to pressure to make them re-register themselves as part of the schismatic structure”. DECR Communication Service /Patriarchia.ru Календарь ← 7 December 2023 year |
| Russian Orthodox Church obtains official registration in the Kingdom of Cambodia Phnom Penh, July 22, 2013 The representation of the Russian Orthodox Church in Thailand, which administratively includes Cambodia, has received a resolution from the Minister of Cults and Religions of Cambodia regarding the decision made by the government to officially register the Russian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) in Cambodia as a religious organization, reports Sedmitza.ru . The request for the state registration of the Moscow Patriarchate in the country was made after the meeting of the Holy Synod in October 4, 2012, which accepted the newly-established parishes in Cambodia (of St. George the Victory-Bearer in Phnom Penh and Great Martyr and Healer Panteleimon in Kampong Saon) into the jurisdiction of the Russian Orthodox Church. The Moscow Patriarchate was registered on the territory of Cambodia by its authorities as a religious organization under the name, " Orthodox Christian Church of Cambodia (Patriarchate of Moscow) " . The decision made by Cambodian authorities allows the opening in Cambodia of Orthodox parishes, the purchase and registration of parcels of land in Cambodia in the name of the Church, the building of churches, opening of theological schools, freedom to preach, and so on. In accordance with the resolution of the Ministry of Cults and Religions of Cambodia, the regional representative of the Russian Orthodox Church Archimandrite Oleg (Cherepanin) sent notifications of this decision to the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia. At the present time, upon completion of the registration of the Church bank accounts in Cambodia, fundraising is being planned within all churches of the representation of the Russian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) in Thailand for the purchase of parcels of land and building for Church use in Phnom Penh and Kampong Saon. The regional representation of the Church is also working to supply the Orthodox parishes in Cambodia with permanent clergy. The representative of the Russian Orthodox Church (Patriarchate of Moscow) in Thailand Archimandrite Oleg (Cherepanin) has sent letters of gratitude to the king of Cambodia Norodom Sihamoni, Great Supreme Cambodian Patriarch of Buddhists Tep Vong, the Minister of Cults and Religions of Cambodia Min Kinh, as well as the embassies of Cambodia in Russia and Thailand. 23 июля 2013 г. ... Комментарии Мы в соцсетях Подпишитесь на нашу рассылку |
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