Ukraine

Suceava Archdiocese is ready to accommodate Ukrainian refugees

The line of refugees who wanted to cross the border from Ukraine to Romania through Siret Customs, Suceava County, stretched for several kilometres on Thursday afternoon. Although most of them only want to transit Romania to other countries, the Archdiocese of Suceava and Radauti is ready to support them with food, clothes and objects of…

Feb 25, 2022Aurelian Iftimiu

Patriarch Daniel calls for end to war in Ukraine, urges prayers for peace

His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel of the Romanian Orthodox Church has called for an end to the war in Ukraine and urged everyone to pray for peace. In a message Thursday morning, Patriarch Daniel expressed his concern over the beginning of war in Ukraine and assured Romanians living in Ukraine to help them according to possibilities.…

Feb 24, 2022Aurelian Iftimiu

Bessarabia Metropolitan urges prayer for peace

The Metropolis of Bessarabia is following with concern the situation on the borders of Ukraine, where peace is fragile, His Eminence Metropolitan Petru said. “Tensions in the immediate vicinity of the Republic of Moldova threaten not only Ukraine but also the whole of Europe, which has only recently broken the iron curtain drawn after World…

Jan 26, 2022Aurelian Iftimiu

St Paisios of Neamt has founded a school of spirituality for whole Orthodoxy, Patriarch Daniel says during reliquary blessing service

Patriarch Daniel on Thursday blessed a processional reliquary containing a fragment of the relics of St Paisios of Neamț, saying that the Saint founded a school of spirituality useful for the whole Orthodoxy. St. Paisios of Neamț (Velichkovsky) organized and guided monastic communities at Dragomirna, Secu and Neamț monasteries in Romania. He translated the Philokalia…

Oct 16, 2020Aurelian Iftimiu

First 2019 Holy Synod working session kicks off with Ukraine situation on the agenda

The hierarchs of the Romanian Orthodox Church came together for the first working session of the Holy Synod on Thursday, after asking for God’s help and inspiration during a Te Deum service officiated at St George chapel of the Patriarchal Residence by Bishop Andrei of Covasna and Harghita. Gathered under the chairmanship of His Beatitude…

Feb 21, 2019Aurelian Iftimiu

Ecumenical Patriarchate reiterates its decision concerning Ukraine: Communiqué

Communiqué of the Ecumenical Patriarchate / 19.11.2018: In preparation of the meeting of the Holy and Sacred Synod on 27-29 November, 2018, the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople reiterates its sacred decision to grant the Tomos of Autocephaly to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine. While the preparation process for the Holy Council (SOBOR) of the Orthodox Church…

Nov 21, 2018Sorin Ioniţe

The Holy Synod calls for Moscow and Constantinople to resolve Ukrainian issue together, highlights pan-Orthodox cooperation

The Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church met Thursday in the Patriarchal residence in Bucharest under the chairmanship of His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel. The Synod addressed several matters, including the pressing issue of the ecclesiastical situation in Ukraine. In particular, the Holy Synod approved last month’s appeal from the Metropolitan Synod of Bessarabia for…

Oct 26, 2018Gheorghe Anghel

Moscow Patriarchate severs ties with Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople

At its working session on Monday, October 15, 2018, the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church resolved to cut all ties with the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople following their decisions regarding the church situation in Ukraine. The Holy Synod of the Russian Church has learned ‘with profound pain’ about the Ecumenical Patriarchate’s report published…

Oct 19, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

Ecumenical Patriarchate issues announcement regarding situation of Ukraine: full text

The Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate met this week under the chairmanship of His Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew to examine different topics on the agenda including the Ukrainian autocephaly issue. Following the October 11, 2018, working session, the Chief Secretariat of the Holy Synod released an announcement containing the deliberations. Announcement Presided by His…

Oct 12, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

Ecumenical Patriarch: “It is reasonable to desire the restoration of unity for the divided ecclesiastical body in Ukraine”

The Ecumenical Patriarch expressed the Ecumenical Throne’s unabating interest for the healing of the Ukrainian ecclesiastical problem and the restoration of unity for the divided ecclesiastical body in that country during his address in the Chamber of the Throne, following the 40-day memorial of Metropolitan Evangelos of Perge, which took place on Sunday, July 1,…

Jul 3, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

Ecumenical Patriarchate to initiate dialogue with sister Churches on Ukrainian Autocephaly

Following its working session on April 19-20, 2018, the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate released a communiqué stating that it has decided to begin a dialogue and coordination with its sister autocephalous Orthodox Churches on the matter of creating an autocephalous Ukrainian Orthodox Church.  The Ecumenical patriarchate noted it will examine the matter according…

Apr 25, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu