... based in countries recognized as having committed armed aggression against Ukraine. This creates legal grounds to prosecute and dissolve parishes and dioceses of the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate solely because of their canonical communion with the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC), even though the Council of the UOC proclaimed the “full autonomy and independence of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church” on May 27, 2022. The law does not directly mandate the dissolution of the UOC, but only because it does ...
... churches whose territorial boundaries automatically change every time state borders change. And while non-Christian Eastern religions have long since become part of Western popular culture [
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], albeit often in the form of a lightly-built new-age narrative,... ... “pool” for the largest number of religious organizations in a consultative status. In this connection, the fact that the Russian Orthodox Church is not represented at all in the UN system of international organizations is quite conspicuous. Thus, ...
... parishes of the so-called diaspora (that is, the parishes outside the territories of local Churches), and in 1923, he attempted to hold and chair a “Pan-Orthodox Congress.” Moreover, same year, taking advantage of the difficult situation of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC), Meletius II hastened to spread his influence on its territory as well. He took the Orthodox population of Estonia and Finland under the governance of the Patriarchate of Constantinople and also interfered in the affairs ...
2016 will inevitably be a very special year in the modern history of Christianity: on February 12, a truly landmark meeting was held between the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Pope in Cuba; and in June, the Holy and Great Synod of the Orthodox Church will take place.
The Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia will hardly have a better time to play the “meeting of the millennium” card....
