“During a five-day visit to Hungary, the "first-among-equals" in global Orthodoxy speaks out against the Russian invasion of Ukraine and those defending it”
“Bartholomew I is making a two-day official visit this week to Lithuania where many in the Moscow-linked Orthodox Church are critical of Russia's invasion of Ukraine ”
“Not everyone in Moscow is pleased that Patriarch Kirill, Russian Orthodox head, decided to cancel his trip to Kazakhstan this week for the Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions. Some Russians are especially upset that, by not attending the gathering, Kirill”
“The Russian Orthodox Church has sent Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyeva to head its tiny community in Hungary and has replaced him as "foreign minister" with Metropolitan Anthony Sevryuk. The move has been closely scrutinized because of Patriarch Kirill's unwavering support of Putin/his invasion.”
“More than 400 priests who are part of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP) have signed an online petition calling on an international ecclesiastical tribunal to sanction their chief spiritual leader Patriarch Kirill.”
“The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople – who is considered the primus inter pares or "first among equals" in the Orthodox hierarchy – has condemned Russia's invasion of Ukraine and fighting between the two predominantly Orthodox countries, during a three-day visit to Poland.”
“The Orthodox world is being shattered by the war in Ukraine. A close adviser to Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew reflects frankly on the state of Orthodoxy before the invasion, and imagines how it needs to change if it is to have a future”
“The Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, is a historic threat to a people of Orthodox Christian tradition. More troubling still for Orthodox believers, the senior hierarchy of the Russian Orthodox Church has refused to acknowledge this invasion,”
“"They are heretical ideas. Theologically, they must be seriously deconstructed to reveal their fascistic and authoritarian dimension," he insists. Hovorun, a 48-year-old native of Ukraine, is an archimandrite in the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP).”
“On February 23, the day before the invasion, Kirill issued a statement from his residence at the Danilov Monastery, congratulating Putin on the celebration of the "Defender of the Fatherland" holiday.”
“Can we imagine Pope Francis blessing an unequal treaty whose effects would extend beyond Ukraine to the entire international order? And in so doing, de facto admitting that entire populations around the world are under the oppression of a brutal dictatorial and police regime,”
“As for the statements from autocephalous Churches, the most tepid have come from the Church of Bulgaria, the Church of Serbia, and the Church of Jerusalem, which offered no sense that there was an aggressor in the current crisis.”
“Patriarch Kirill of Moscow said he expressed "deep and sincere pain". The head of the Russian Orthodox Church on Thursday urged "all parties of the conflict" to do "everything possible to avoid civilian casualties". But he did not explicitly call for an end to the fighting.”
“The Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I granted autocephaly to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in 2019, thereby officializing its independence from the Russian Orthodox Church.”
“he will soon be meeting with Patriarch Kirill of Moscow. It will be only the 2nd time since the creation of the Moscow Patriarchate in the 15th century that the highest religious authorities of Roman Catholicism and Russian Orthodoxy will meet. The 1st occasion was the historic 2016 meeting”
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