Published on 21 Jun 2016
Ukraine is passionately awaiting the decision of the Pan-Orthodox Council currently being held on the Greek island of Crete.
Earlier
Ukraine's Parliament (Verkhovna Rada) officially addressed His All
Holiness Bartholomew I, the Archbishop of Constantinople, New Rome and
Ecumenical Patriarch to grant autocephaly to the Orthodox Church in
Ukraine that is currently subordinate to Moscow's Patriarchate.
The
deputies asked to recognize the Act of 1686 according to which the Kyiv
metropolitan was allegedly attached to the Moscow Patriarchate.
The
unique gathering of Eastern Orthodox Christianity Churches started on
June 19th after a thousand-year-break. Nearly a century ago the
representatives of the confessions started negotiations of a new
Pan-Orthodox gathering, full of scandals and intrigues mixed with
preparations hindered by wars, Soviet cadency, and internal
manipulations. The preparations for this event began in 1961 with an aim
to deal with the problems within the Orthodox Christianity. The
political issues are seemingly prior to religion.
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