The sermon, a deeply symbolic moment after months of tension with the Moscow-led branch of the church, came as a cease-fire failed to materialize.
Tag: Epiphanius I, Metropolitan of Kiev
Worshipers Fill Pews in Lviv on Easter Sunday for Services That Remember War
Commemorations in Ukraine’s small Roman Catholic community combined ancient traditions with the reality of the war.
Also at Stake in Ukraine: the Future of Two Orthodox Churches
The Russian church hopes to reunite with the independent Ukrainian branch under a single patriarch in Moscow that would allow it to control the holiest sites of Orthodoxy in the Slavic world.
Also at Stake in Ukraine: the Future of Two Orthodox Churches
The Russian church hopes to reunite with the independent Ukrainian branch under a single patriarch in Moscow that would allow it to control the holiest sites of Orthodoxy in the Slavic world.
Ukrainian Orthodox Christians Formally Break From Russia
An independent Orthodox Church of Ukraine was formally recognized in a four-hour ceremony in Istanbul, formalizing a split with the Russian church to which it had been tied since 1686.