The Making of Orthodox Church of Ukraine: Damocles Sword or Light at the End of the Tunnel?
Metreveli, Tornike LU
(2019)
In Religion und Gesellschaft in Ost und West
- Abstract
- On 6 January 2019, the Ecumenical Patriarch (EP) of Constantinople Bartholomew signed a decree on autocephaly that allowed Ukraine to have its canonical independent church a separate from the Russian one. This marked a monumental event for Orthodox Christianity in general and the beginning of a new era for religion in Ukraine in particular. This article briefly examines the process of the making of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) as reflected in the politicization of religion in Russo-Ukrainian relations and conflict between the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) and EP. Before moving to the contextual part and an argument, however, it worth defining a few central terms and concepts used during this article.
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- author
- Metreveli, Tornike
LU
- publishing date
- 2019
- type
- Contribution to specialist publication or newspaper
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Ukrainian autocephaly, Russian Orthodox Church, Ukrainian politics
- categories
- Popular Science
- in
- Religion und Gesellschaft in Ost und West
- pages
- 5 pages
- publisher
- G2W Institute’s Ecumenical Forum for Faith, Religion and Society in East and West
- ISSN
- 2235-2465
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- no
- id
- e0644291-3b04-42c0-bbd7-610dc3a8ae03
- alternative location
- https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/publications/258588
- date added to LUP
- 2021-01-12 12:16:00
- date last changed
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series = {{Religion und Gesellschaft in Ost und West}},
title = {{The Making of Orthodox Church of Ukraine: Damocles Sword or Light at the End of the Tunnel?}},
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year = {{2019}},
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