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  Ukrainian Orthodox Church   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In 1930 the Ukrainian Church was forcibly united with the Russian Orthodox Church by the Soviet government.
During the second world war the attacks on the church diminished as the Soviet government sought to encourage national unity in the face of Nazi aggression.
The Russian Orthodox Church in the Ukraine was renamed the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, and the hitherto clandestine Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church was formally revived.
philtar.ucsm.ac.uk /encyclopedia/christ/east/uocs.html   (206 words)

  
 History of Christianity in Ukraine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The eastward spread of the Union of Brest led to violent clashes, e.g., assassination of the Uniate archbishop Kuncewicz by the Orthodox mob in Polotsk in 1623.
In 1686, 40 years after Mohyla's death, the Orthodox Church of Kiev and all Rus' was transferred from the jurisdiction of the Patriarch of Constantinople to the Patriarchate of Moscow, established a century prior to that.
In the wake of the break up of the Russian Empire, Russian Orthodox church was seen as counterrevolutionary and pro-White by the Communists, and a Ukrainian Autonomous Orthodox Church was founded with their encouragement in order to reduce the influence of patriarch Tikhon of Moscow whose position towards the revolution was strongly critical.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ukrainian_Orthodox_Church   (2419 words)

  
 Ukrainian Greek–Catholic Church / Church in Ukraine / Orthodox Churches:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Ukrainian Greek–Catholic Church / Church in Ukraine / Orthodox Churches:
The Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate is the former Ukrainian exarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC).
For this reason, the name of Metropolitan Kostyantyn, head of the canonically recognized Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the USA (under the jurisdiction of the Patriarchate of Constantinople) is commemorated in the churches of the UAOC.
www.ugcc.org.ua /eng/church/orthodox   (578 words)

  
 Eastern Orthodox Church - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In the Theology of the Orthodox Church it is most important to understand that Christ, from the moment of conception was 100% God and 100% man. Therefore it is correct to say that Mary is indeed, the Theotokos, the Birth-giver of God, and that she is the greatest of all humans ever to have lived.
Orthodox confession can therefore take the form of a discussion between the confessor and the penitent concerning his or her sins and the best means of overcoming them.
The Antiochian Orthodox Church, The Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, and the Holy Orthodox Catholic and Apostolic Church of America (formerly connected with the Vicar Bishop of the (Western) Orthodox Church of France-ECOF), all have Western Rite parishes.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eastern_Orthodox   (8978 words)

  
 Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The responsibility of establishing a new Synod of Bishops was given to the Metropolitan-Archbishop of Warsaw, Dionisij Waledynskyj.
In wake of the break up of the Russian Empire some national groups sought autonomy (Autonomous Orthodox church bodies are not the same as Autocephalic church bodies) from Moscow.
Most of the other churches were forced out as the Soviet government only recognized the Moscow Patriarchate, revived at the time of the Russian Revolution, as the only legitimate church in most of the Soviet Union.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ukrainian_Autocephalous_Orthodox_Church   (476 words)

  
 Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church - Canonical Questions Decision of Brotherhood of St. Andrew to Unify under ...
The Church said to have been founded by the Apostle Andrew, was once again laid into a mass grave along with millions of faithful starved to death during the Great Terror Famine of 1932-33, planned and executed by Moscow’s leaders as an act of genocide.
The American outpost of the Church of Kyiv emerged as the legate to the spirit and assumed the responsibility for the destiny of its persecuted homeland.
However, for Orthodox Ukrainians this shared form of government and the Church's independence is a birthright that is essential to the character and purpose of their faith.
eng.maidanua.org /node/178/print   (1052 words)

  
 Holy Ascension Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church
A Ukrainian Brotherhood of Canada was established in 1918 whose objectives were to organize and support a Ukrainian (autocephalous) Orthodox Church of Canada which would be independent of all foreign missions and overseas control.
Church services were held in the parishioners' homes, in the local school and also in the Ukrainian National Hall.
The church was filled to capacity and the ecstasy of the congregation was overwhelming.
www.smokylake.com /history/churches/ukrainianorthodox.htm   (813 words)

  
 Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
During the government of Het`man Pavlo Skoropadsky (1918) he was one of the organizers of the Ukrainian State University, President of the Commission to prepare a New Constitution for the academic schools in Ukraine, and Head of the Orthographic Commission in Kyiv.
And soon, in 1940, upon the recommendation of the Ukrainian Church Rada, the Council of the orthodox Church in the General-Governate (previously the Orthodox Church in Poland which had received its autocephaly from the Ecumenical Patriarchate in 1924), headed by Metropolitan Dionisius (Valedynsky), elected Prof.
Under Metropolitan Ilarion the Act of Spiritual Unification of the three Ukrainian Orthodox Metropolias of the diaspora (Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada, Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the U.S.A. and Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church of the diaspora) was signed and proclaimed in Winnipeg in 1960.
www.uocc.ca /ilarion.html   (1209 words)

  
 Religious - Christian - Belarus and Ukraine
Filaret, Metropolitan of Minsk and Sluzk, Exarch of Patriarch [Aleksy II of the Russian Orthodox Church] for all Byelorussia.
L'viv Diocese of [the] Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Moscow Patriarchate.
The Roman-Catholic Church in Ukraine (The Latin Rite).
learning.lib.vt.edu /slav/relig_chr_bela_ukr.html   (1750 words)

  
 timeline
The Patriarch of Jerusalem consecrates a new Ukrainian Orthodox hierarchy and a period of growth for the Church in Ukraine begins.
The Sobor agrees to grant the petition of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the United States to rejoin the Kyivan UAOC church.
The Russian Orthodox Church adopts a formal resolution calling for the destruction of UAOC in the United States and the free world.
www.saveouruoc.com /timeline.html   (1456 words)

  
 First Ukrainian Church in Canada
The Orthodox settlers mainly from Bukovina, had to be satisfied with the Russian Orthodox priests whose paramount mission in Canada was to Russify the Ukrainians.
The cemetery in the courtyard of this church was consecrated for the settlers of the Orthodox faith in the fall of 1897 by Rev. N.
The church cemetery is crowded with distinctive Orthodox grave markers-inscribed crosses cast in cement moulds by the local pioneer craftsmen.
www.infoukes.com /culture/architecture/first_church   (1248 words)

  
 Welcome to the Protection of the Virgin Mary Orthodox Church
The synod gave its blessing to the reopening of the Monastery of the Elevation of the Cross in the village of Pantaliia, Dubno district, in northwestern Ukraine's Rivne region.
Patriarch Filaret (Denysenko), head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyivan Patriarchate, Metropolitan Volodymyr (Sabodan), head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church—Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP), and Archbishop Ihor (Isichenko) of Kharkiv and Poltava of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC) sent condolences on the death of Pope John Paul II.
The leading figures of the Ukrainian Orthodox churches have reacted to the announcement of the Ecumenical Patriarchate that the Kyiv Metropolitanate is not the canonical territory of the Moscow Patriarchate: the announcement reportedly appeared in Constantinople this week.
www.culcom.net /~frtom   (3900 words)

  
 Ukrainian Orthodox church
Today the Orthodox people, as the true depository of faith and piety, are especially concerned about all that is happening in the religious, political, economic, academic, and cultural life of our country and of the whole world.
Many Orthodox Christians are inclined (not without basis) to see in this the fulfillment of the apocalyptic prophecy about the seal of Antichrist, viewing the identification numbers as the "number of the beast" cited by the holy apostle and evangelist John the Divine (Rv 13.17-18).
It is already easy to imagine the possible consequences of the enumeration of the entire population of the country since with the subsequent creation of a data bank about all citizens of the state the control of each individual person could grow colossally.
www.stetson.edu /~psteeves/relnews/ukrainianid1905.html   (842 words)

  
 Ukrainian Orthodox Church's Metropolia Center marks 50th jubilee (11/03/02)
Present for the liturgy was Bishop Basil Losten of the Stamford Eparchy of the Ukrainian Catholic Church.
He extolled the vision and the dedication of the UOC's spiritual fathers, Metropolitan John and Patriarch Mstyslav for realizing the necessity of having a diocesan center, museum and cultural center as an anchor for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church here in America and in the Ukrainian diaspora.
Daria Pishko, president of the Ukrainian Orthodox League of the U.S.A., Nadiya Mirchuk, president of the United Ukrainian Orthodox Sisterhoods, Michael Heretz, president of the St. Andrew Society; and Dennis Quinlan, representative of South Bound Brook City Council; also delivered greetings.
www.ukrweekly.com /Archive/2002/440214.shtml   (970 words)

  
 Ukrainian Orthodoxy - Orthodoxie ukrainienne
On September 24 (12 Julian) the Church calendar commemorated St. Theodora of Alexandria.
This practice evolved into the daily prayer of the Church, which is for ALL Christians, the “Horologion” or the Divine Office or Praises.
Baptism I am a 20 year old woman who is engaged to a Greek orthodox man. I wish to be baptized as a Greek orthodox and be married in the Greek orthodox Church.
www.unicorne.org /orthodoxy   (717 words)

  
 SAVE OUR UKRAINIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH COORDINATING COMMITTEE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
It was precipitated by the plaintiffs’ disapproval of recent decisions, voted on and passed by the majority of the voting parishioners of Holy Ascension in a Special General Meeting of the parish, held in accordance with the Parish Constitution and its by-laws.
Among the clients of this Washington- DC based firm are the Russian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate and the Orthodox Church of America (the offshoot of the Russian Orthodox Church in the USA.
It is important to understand the history of the establishment of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church here in the USA in order to understand the sensitivities of the faithful toward protecting their right for self-determination and their strong unbroken ties to their Mother country Ukraine.
www.brama.com /news/press/990628souoc.html   (1645 words)

  
 St. Mary Ukrainian Orthodox Church   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The relationship of the large central dome to the rest and the presence of the ubiquitous round-headed windows is particularly noteworthy.
It is one of the few Orthodox churches with which he can be credited and it contains all of his characteristic trademarks: walls painted to resemble cut stone, the ornamental borderwork, and the angels on the dome's ceiling.
The historical integrity of the church, the belltower, and the neighbouring cemetery reflects the congregation's care in maintaining the site over the years.
www.ualberta.ca /CIUS/church/c-alberta/tour/p13.htm   (280 words)

  
 Resolutions of the Metropolitan Council Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Metropolitan Council of the UOC of the USA rejoices at the news of the recent annual meeting of the Permanent Conference of Ukrainian Orthodox Bishops beyond the Borders of Ukraine, hosted by His Grace Bishop Jeremiah and the Ukrainian Orthodox Eparchy of South America in Curitiba, Brazil.
The Metropolitan Council of the UOC of USA applauds the announced plans of the Permanent Conference of Ukrainian Orthodox Bishops beyond the Borders of Ukraine for the celebration of the Millennium with main celebrations scheduled for Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada and Pittsburgh, PA or Parma, OH, USA.
The Metropolitan Council of the UOC of USA condemns the recent attack perpetrated against Patriarch Filaret and clergy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyivan Patriarchate in Mariopol, Ukraine and questions the significant delay in the governmental investigation of this tragedy.
www.brama.com /news/press/990811uoc.html   (1379 words)

  
 Ukrainian Orthodox Church exists in Rumania (12/31/78)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
SOUTH BOUND BROOK, N.J. - The Ukrainian Orthodox Word published here reported in its November-December edition that it had received the second edition of a Ukrainian Orthodox prayerbook published in 1977 in Rumania.
According to the article in the Ukrainian Orthodox Word, news of the existence of a distinct Ukrainian Orthodox group within the jurisdiction of the Rumanian Orthodox Church was received a few years ago.
"The existence of a district Ukrainian Orthodox ecclesiastical community in the territory of the above mentioned eparchy, a community which is titled The Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Rumania, is confirmed by the register of those who comprise the editorial staff of the prayerbook," the article noted.
www.ukrweekly.com /Archive/1978/2867807.shtml   (152 words)

  
 PDS Russia Religion News November 2000
The reaction of official authorities of Ukraine and the leadership of the Ukrainian Orthodox church which is under the jurisdiction of the Moscow patriarchate (UPTs-MP) to the document signed is still unknown.
According to the decision of Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church, the leader of the Kyiv Patriarchate was anathematized in the early 1990s.
Q: Father Gleb Yakunin [the dissident Orthodox priest imprisoned for his attempts at church reform in Soviet times], who is a member of your church, I believe, told me recently that the greatest problem facing Orthodoxy is the refusal of bishops and priests to repent for their behavior in Soviet times.
www.stetson.edu /~psteeves/relnews/0011b.html   (8608 words)

  
 Adherents.com
Both compete with a third Orthodox faction, the independent Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church, which merged with elements of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church to form the Ukrainian Orthodox Church--Kiev Patriachate on June 27, 1992.
In 1950 the 2 branches of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in America united.
The Church is identical in faith and practice to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the U.S.A...
www.adherents.com /Na/Na_636.html   (2560 words)

  
 St. Paul's Ukrainian Orthodox Church SOBORNOPRAVN - Hyder,AK
Saint Paul's Ukrainian Orthodox Church is the Archeparchy (Archdiocese)of Hyder, all of Alaska and the Northwestern United States of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church of North and South America and is under the spiritual guidance of Archbishop +GREGORY.
We are not in communion with some Orthodox Churches because of their refusal to follow the sacred canons of the seven ecumenical councils and also for their misunderstanding of how the canons should be applied and what they mean.
It is the original church formed by Jesus Christ and later the Apostles.
netministries.org /see/churches.exe/ch05275   (607 words)

  
 St. John Ukrainian Orthodox Church   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Most churches in the settlement area, even those that were the parish's second, were originally built without such porches.
However, it was not long until the extra overclothing demands of the harsh prairie winters necessitated the building of these additions in one form or another.
John's parish was formed in 1920, very soon after the Ukrainian Orthodox Church had been founded in Canada.
www.ualberta.ca /CIUS/church/c-alberta/tour/p9.htm   (266 words)

  
 Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
At the same time Skovoroda was a theologian in the best Orthodox sense of the word: one who strove to know God with his mind and his heart, through meditative prayer and ethical living.
This true humanity of which Skovoroda speaks is traditionally viewed by the Orthodox as being embodied by its Archetype, Jesus, the Second Person of the Holy Trinity.
It is clear that in keeping with the Orthodox perspective of human freedom - for theosis is attained the co-operation of the human spirit with the divine - Skovoroda saw that humans could deny (and very often did deny) an entrance to this all-surrounding happiness.
www.uocc.ca /skovoroda.html   (2088 words)

  
 Ukrainian Autocephalic Orthodox Church of St Nicholas, Canberra | MyTravelGuide.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The church is white rendered with unusually shaped cupolas made from bronze.
A memorial centre, opened in 1988, is located next to the church and was erected by parishioners of Australia and New Zealand.
Improve the Ukrainian Autocephalic Orthodox Church of St Nicholas listing by providing a photo, description or suggesting a correction.
www.mytravelguide.com /attractions/profile.jsp?objectid=79635805   (389 words)

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