By Hristianstvo.bg
In “St. Sofia of Kiev” the Constituent Meeting of the general public group “Sofia Brotherhood” was held. The individuals of the assembly elected the chairman of Archpriest Alexander Kolb and members of the Board of Administrators of the brotherhood. The occasion was held throughout the framework of the Discussion board for the Unity of Ukrainian Orthodoxy, which was held on the territory of the Nationwide Reserve “St. Sophia of Kiev”.
The Sofia brotherhood positions itself as an affiliation of Orthodox Ukrainians — believers from the UOC, OCU and different native church buildings. The primary aim of the exercise of the brotherhood is complete assist of inter-Orthodox dialogue to realize the unity of Ukrainian Orthodoxy, unification of efforts and assist of initiatives of Orthodox Christians aimed toward its growth.
The spherical desk “Church, Society, State: Dialogue for Unity and Victory” was held throughout the framework of the discussion board.
For fairly a very long time, Ukrainian Orthodoxy suffered from division and hostility. Repeated makes an attempt to beat the schism, nonetheless, have been continuously met with each covert and open resistance from the Moscow Patriarchate. Specifically, the honest need of the Ecumenical Patriarch to heal such a division by returning the a part of Ukrainian Orthodoxy that was in schism to church communion by giving the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) a Tomos for autocephaly, not solely didn’t discover assist within the Russian Orthodox Church and in its satellites in Ukraine, but it surely additionally grew to become a form of set off for them to create and deepen a schism in Common Orthodoxy. It grew to become more and more apparent that the Moscow Patriarchate was solely concerned about increasing its personal affect over the Orthodox world and wouldn’t let anybody out of its “canonical claws”.
The big-scale Russian aggression that started on February 24, 2022 grew to become a turning level and a bloody level within the historical past of each the Ukrainian state and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Regardless of Moscow Patriarch Kirill’s deceptive statements concerning the “united nation” and the “united Orthodox congregation”, the Russian Orthodox Church took a course to justify the bloody struggle and blessed the aggressor for the “sin of Cain”. The commandments of God, the teachings of Christ and the holy fathers of the Church ceased to be an authority for the pinnacle of the Russian Orthodox Church, which in its phrases and actions was already primarily based on the legal concepts of the Russian dictator and the directions of the omnipotent FSB. Underneath these circumstances, Patriarch Kirill had neither canonical nor ethical proper to be “nice grasp and father” for the multi-million Ukrainian congregation. It was this that pushed a part of the Ukrainian clergy to decisive motion.
On April 10, 2022, Archpriest Andrii Pinchuk, a cleric of the Dnipropetrovsk Diocese of the UOC, made a video handle to the Council of Prelates of the Historic Jap Church buildings, wherein he referred to as for a council to sentence the “Russian Peace” doctrine raised by the Moscow Patriarch, in addition to for bringing Patriarch Kirill to canonical duty and depriving him of the proper to occupy the patriarchal throne.
A bunch of clerics from completely different dioceses was shaped across the name to the Jap Patriarchs, who’re looking for methods to resolve the urgent issues of the Church’s growth. Varied on-line conferences are held at which representatives of the executive buildings of the Kyiv Metropolitanate, scientists, theologians, bishops of the UOC, and so forth., are invited to speak.
The holding of such conferences, in addition to the creation of teams on social networks, lay the foundations of a casual affiliation of clergy, whose media mouthpiece is the Voice of the Clergy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church on the Fb social community.
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