Source: www.balkaninsight.com It is time the West offered robust support to the Istanbul-based Patriarchate – now being squeezed by Ankara and Moscow, both of which see it as a threat to their illiberal projects. The Ecumenical Patriarch and Archbishop of…
Author: cleric Andrey Kuraev The Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchy) has justly claimed that it is really an independent Church, that its connection to Moscow is purely prayerful and symbolical: mentioning the name of the Patriarch of Moscow and all…
Author: Spyros Papageorgiu The prerogative of the Ecumenical Patriarch is to grant autocephaly to the Church he finds suitable for it, stressed the former Foreign Affairs Deputy Minister of the Republic of Greece, Mr. Janis Amanatidis, in his statement for…
Author: Archimandrite Cyrill Govorun Because in order to have a schism it’s necessary to have the consent of both sides, that they would not commune with one another. It seems like Constantinople is not preparing to break relations with Moscow…
Lately there have been many things written about the Ukrainian autocephaly, most of them by the Russian Church, which seemed to have mobilized its entire communication system in order to persuade the Orthodox world that it has the right. But,…
The dialogue between the Ecumenical Patriarch Mr. Mr. Bartholomew and the Patriarch of Moscow Mr. Cyril has just ended. According to the information, the conversation lasted for exactly four hours, while as the two leaders had a private meeting as…
