His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel will celebrate his name day on Monday, December 17, 2018, when the Church commemorates the feast day of the Holy Prophet Daniel. On this occasion, the Divine Liturgy will be celebrated at the Sts Constantine and Helen Patriarchal Cathedral in Bucharest. At 12.00, a Te Deum service will be officiated as…

ANKARA, December 15. /TASS/. Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople plans to hand over the Tomos (decree) of Autocephaly to the head of Ukraine’s newly established church, a spokesperson for the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople told TASS on Saturday. “The patriarchate welcomes the success of the unification council in Ukraine. Patriarch Bartholomew invited Metropolitan Epiphany [to Istanbul]…

Last Saturday’s Ukrainian “unification council,” a project of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, is non-canonical and will only serve to deepen the schism in Ukraine, His Eminence Metropolitan Daniil of Viding of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church believes. In an interview posted on the official site of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, Met. Daniil stated that, although the…

Moscow, December 15, Interfax – The so-called “unification assembly” held in Kiev on Saturday, which elected the leader of the new Ukrainian “church” independent from Moscow, is canonically nil, the Russian Orthodox Church said. “The non-canonical gathering of individuals, of whom some have and most don’t have the legitimate Episcopal consecration, under general leadership of…

MOSCOW, December 15. /TASS/. The canonical Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate will continue serving in Ukraine after a new church – the Autocephalous Orthodox Church – was established in that country, the Reverend Alexander Volkov, spokesman for Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, told TASS on Saturday. “The Russian Orthodox Church is praying in…

MOSCOW, December 15. /TASS/. After the creation of an Autocephalous Orthodox Church in Ukraine, schismatic religious groups will grow in number in that country, the Reverend Alexander Volkov, spokesman for Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, told TASS. “As for those rulings passed in the ancient St. Sophia’s in Kiev (the St. Sophia’s Cathedral)…

Kiev, December 15, Interfax – Epiphany Dumenko has been elected as the leader of the “local Orthodox Church and Metropolitan of Kiev and All Ukraine,” Culture Minister Yevgeny Nishchuk announced from the stage on the square in front of the St. Sophia Cathedral on Saturday. His announcement was made as President Pyotr Poroshenko, Verkhovnaya Rada…

KIEV, December 15. /TASS/. Ukrainian President Pyotr Poroshenko has declared establishment of a new church in the country – the Autocephalous Orthodox Church. “I congratulate everyone on setting up the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church which has been just created at St. Sophia’s,” he said addressing the crowd in Sofiyskaya Square after the end of the…

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has arrived at Kyiv’s St. Sophia Square, where thousands of people gathered waiting for the decisions of the unification council of the Ukrainian Orthodox churches. Poroshenko spoke with people near the St. Sophia Cathedral, a UNIAN Information Agency correspondent has reported. “We’re standing and praying for the Ukrainian church to be…