With today’s inception of a Ukrainian Orthodox Church loses the Moscow Patriarchate’s influence. In the dispute about it, there is also the Power in the Region.
for years wanted to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, a country Church reasons and thus become independent of the Russian Orthodox Church in Moscow. Then, in October, the consent to the Church’s founding came from the Top of the Orthodox Church, by Patriarch Bartholomeos of Constantinople, was a Sensation.
Kiev cheered at the time, and Moscow was angry with. “The Patriarch of Constantinople goes on the war path. This is not only a war against the Russian Orthodox Church. This is a war against the unity of the Orthodoxy in the world,” said, for example, Metropolitan Hilarion, responsible for the external relations of the Russian Orthodox Church in Moscow.
Crimea crisis was sparked by the Church dispute re –
The dispute within the Orthodox Church had already begun with the collapse of the Soviet Union. At the time of the Kievan Metropolitan was not elected to the head of the Russian Orthodox Church. Therefore, he founded in 1992 the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kiev Patriarchate.
A part of the communities in the Ukraine followed him. A part remained under the Moscow Patriarchate. After the annexation of Crimea by Russia of the Church flared up the dispute again. The Ukrainian Orthodox Church officially applied for their independence.
Church and state closely
in Both Russia and in the Ukraine, the Orthodox Church and the politics connected closely to each other. The Church dispute is political. The Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko celebrated a Church as a “historic decision”. For him it is a “blow against the Russian Supremacy”.
The Russian side sees it differently. She accuses Poroshenko, that he will use the Church to strengthen his own Power as President.
The Connections between politics and the Orthodox Church are close to, such as here at a Meeting of Ukrainian President Poroshenko with Patriarch Bartholomeos of Constantinople.
the Moscow Patriarchy loses Power, influence and money
After the founding of the Church will have to the individual congregations and monasteries of Ukraine will decide in the coming months, now, which part of the Church you want.
If you go from the Moscow Patriarchate in the new Ukrainian national Church, join us in real estate, and icons. Through the recognition of an independent Church in Ukraine, the Russian Patriarch loses in Moscow, so in addition to the Power and influence of money.
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