Tag: ukrainian patriarchate

“The Church is Young” The Election of Sviatoslav Shevchuk

“The Church is Young” — Pope Benedict XVI (2005) The announcement that the Synod of Ukrainian Hierarchs had elected their youngest member, 40-year old Bishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, as Major-Archbishop (Patriarch) hit world…

Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Kyivan Patriarchate) on Church Unity

From Risu: On April 8, 2010, at the press conference Prospects of Establishing One National Church in New Political Conditions, the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyivan Patriarchate, Patriarch Filaret, expressed his…