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The author, based on archival sources, memoires and scholarly literature, attempts to demythologize the concept of "the chaplains of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army", which appears in both historical publications and widely understood... more
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      Ukrainian Insurgent ArmyUkrainian Greek Catholic ChurchUkrainian Orthodox ChurchMilitary Chaplains
Шумило С. В. Розвиток українсько-афонських духовно-культурних зв’язків у XVІI – першій третині ХІХ ст. Дисертація на здобуття наукового ступеня кандидата історичних наук за спеціальністю 26.00.01 «Теорія та історія культури» за напрямом –... more
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      Ukrainian StudiesMount Athos StudiesOrthodox ChristianityUkrainian History
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      Russian OrthodoxyRussian orthodoxy (History)Russian-Ukrainian RelationsUkrainian, Russian and Polish Historiy
Великий піст: одвічні сенси і сучасні форми ОДВІЧНЕ 40 днів посту як 40 років у пустелі Старозавітні читання Великого посту: 40 днів Великого посту як 40 днів посту Христа в пустелі Великий піст як шлях до Воскресіння Великий піст і... more
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      ReligionOrthodox ChristianityUkrainian Orthodox Church
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      Contemporary HistoryRussian Orthodox ChurchEcclesiastical HistoryEastern Orthodoxy
Монографія піднімає малодосліджене як в історіографії питання з історії Церкви ХХ ст. У фокусі зацікавлення авторки – життя православної громади в Українській РСР у повоєнні десятиліття, коли її єдиним легальним представником була... more
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      ChristianitySoviet HistoryHistory of ChristianityIdentity (Culture)
The decline of the communist regime in the late 1980s stimulated decentralizing processes within the Russian Orthodox Church; a final result being the emergence of Eastern Christian Churches in independent Ukraine: the Ukrainian Orthodox... more
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      ReligionSociologyReligion and PoliticsPost-Soviet Regimes
The war in Ukraine is prompting new and potentially irreversible cracks in the traditionally close relationship between the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate and the Russian Orthodox Church.
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      Russian StudiesRussian Orthodox ChurchPolitics of UkraineOrthodox Christianity
Deux visions de la future autocéphalie de l'Eglise d'Ukraine : le père Kirill (Govoroun) et Serge Tchapnine... more
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Wie muss man den gegenwärtigen Streit zwischen den Orthodoxen Kirchen in der Ukraine bewerten, und was kommt dabei heraus? Seit der Ökumenische Patriarch Bartholomäus von Konstantinopel Anfang September angekündigt hat, dass er nach Wegen... more
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      Russian Orthodox ChurchEcumenical Patriarchate of ConstantinopleUkrainian Orthodox Church
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      LiturgyByzantine StudiesGreek-Catholic ChurchesByzantine Liturgy
The aim of the article is to analyse the place and importance of the Orthodox Church in the society and political culture of Ukraine after 2013. The new political realities following the Revolu-tion of Dignity, the annexation of Crimea... more
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      Political CultureUkrainian StudiesRussian Orthodox ChurchUkraine
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      Ukrainian StudiesRussian Orthodox ChurchUkrainian Church HistoryKievan Church
This book first proves that the rationale behind Russia’s aggressive actions in its neighborhood resides in its goal of achieving certain geostrategic objectives which are largely predefined by the state’s imperial traditions, memories,... more
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      ReligionPolitical Geography and GeopoliticsRussian StudiesComparative Politics
ORTHODOX CHURCH IN THE CONTEXT OF STATE AND CHURCH DEVELOPMENT IN THE GRAND DUCHY OF LITHUANIA (1408–1448) The article covers religious situation in the Ukrainian lands in the first half of the XVI century, state-church relations, and... more
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      Polish HistoryRussian Orthodox ChurchHistory of Polish-Lithuanian CommonwealthLithuanian History
In 2018 religious conflict in Ukraine reached a new level of intensity. On the eve of national elections in 2019, the President and parliament of Ukraine set themselves the ambitious goal of creating a single national church out of the... more
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      Russian Orthodox ChurchUkrainian NationalismPolitics of UkraineRussian-Ukrainian Relations
У статті розглядається такий чинник сучасної мовної ситуації в Україні, як взаємовідношення між вибором мови й узагалі мовного коду спілкування для тих чи інших груп населення і їхніми преференціями щодо належності до певної конфесії або... more
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      Russian StudiesUkrainian StudiesRussian Orthodox ChurchRussian Language
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      Russian Orthodox ChurchUkraineBalkansMacedonian Question
While Poroshenko and Patriarch Bartholomew have cast the church split as a struggle against undue Russian influence in Ukraine, this simplistic narrative does not address either what critics describe as the president’s radical departure... more
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      Russian Orthodox ChurchUkrainian PoliticsUkrainian NationalismOrthodox Christianity
Religion ist nicht nur ein wichtiger Faktor im aktuellen Konflikt zwischen Russland und der Ukraine. Der russisch-ukrainische Streit wird auch weiterhin die weltweite Orthodoxie spalten, solange Moskau die Autokephalie der Ukraine nicht... more
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      Eastern ChristianityRussian Orthodox ChurchRussian OrthodoxyOrthodox Christianity
Religion will remain an important factor in the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine, and divide world-wide Orthodoxy as long as Moscow does not recognize Ukrainian autocephaly. The emergence of the OCU and its growing recognition... more
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      Ukrainian StudiesChristian Orthodoxy and NationalismRussian Orthodox ChurchUkrainian Politics
In this chapter of my book on the history of conciliarity in 1917-2017, I equally and systematically examine the historical significance of events in the life of the Russian Church both in the homeland and in the diaspora.
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      Russian StudiesUkrainian StudiesRussian Orthodox ChurchRussian History
The Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyiv Patriarchate (UOC-KP) and the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC) have submitted a request to the Ecumenical Patriarch (i.e. the pa-triarch of Constantinople, the supreme head of all Orthodox... more
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      UkraineAutocephalyMoscow PatriarchateKyiv Patriarchate
The article examines the varieties and modern practices of using liturgical antiphons in the Ukrainian liturgical practice. The specifics of the use of antiphons among all Orthodox Ukrainian denominations are considered. A unifying model... more
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      Liturgical StudiesOrthodox TheologyChristian liturgical musicLiturgical Theology
Ukraine’s President from 2014 to 2019, Petro Poroshenko, in collaboration with the non-canonical or unrecognized Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate and Ukrainian Autocephalous Church, took resolute advantage of the... more
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      ChristianityRussian StudiesUkrainian StudiesEastern Christianity
Die Russische Orthodoxe Kirche lehnt die Verleihung der Autokephalie an die Orthodoxe Kirche der Ukraine durch das Ökumenische Patriarchat entschieden ab. In ihrer Argumentation folgt die Moskauer Kirchenleitung dem außenpolitischen... more
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      Russian StudiesUkrainian StudiesChristian Orthodoxy and NationalismRussian Orthodox Church
The unity of Russian and Ukrainian Orthodoxy, to be sure, might have been possible to preserve, had the Moscow Patriarchate’s hierarchs taken a clearly and officially critical approach towards Russia’s covert military invasion into... more
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      Ukrainian StudiesUkrainian PoliticsPolitics of UkraineGeorgia
How is the election of the new Serbian Patriarch perceived in Skopje & Podgorica? I wrote for Public Orthodoxy about the accumulated (jurisdiction & territorial) challenges the new leadership will inherit in relation to North Macedonia 🇲🇰... more
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      Russian Orthodox ChurchOrthodox ChristianitySerbian PoliticsMacedonian Question
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      ReligionUkraineEcumenical PatriarchateRussland
ZOiS Spotlight 31/2018 by Regina Elsner (19 September 2018)
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      Russian Orthodox ChurchPeacebuildingHistory of Orthodoxy in UkraineUkrainian Orthodox Church
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      Ukrainian StudiesUkrainian & East European History, Eastern Orthodox Church History.Ukrainian Orthodox ChurchThe Ukrainian revolution 1917-1921
With no obvious room for compromise on the issue of Ukrainian Orthodox independence, religion looks set to remain an important factor in the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine during 2020 and beyond. In all likelihood, it will... more
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      Russian StudiesUkrainian StudiesChristian Orthodoxy and NationalismEastern Christianity
ISBN 978-9941-8-1451-8 ადგილობრივი ეკლესიების ავტოკეფალია, ისტორიული, კანონიკური, პოლიტიკური და სახელმწიფოებრივი ასპექტები/ მოხსენებების კრებული / სულხან-საბა ორბელიანის უნივერსიტეტის გამომცემლობა. Autocephaly of Local Churches,... more
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      Ecumenical PatriarchateAutocephalyUkrainian Orthodox ChurchTomos
Romanian, Bulgarian and Georgian Churces should recognise the autocephaly of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, before its too late. It will help Met. Epiphany and those in UOC-MP rebelling against Russian Patriarch Kirill.
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      Russian Orthodox ChurchRussian OrthodoxyPolitics of UkraineOrthodox Christianity
Interview about the creation of the unified local Eastern Orthodox Church in Ukraine and the role of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in such church building and national Christianity as well (in Russian) // Интервью 2007 года для... more
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      Ukrainian StudiesRussian Orthodox ChurchAutocephalyUniate Church
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      Russian StudiesRussian Orthodox ChurchOrthodox ChristianityEcumenical Patriarchate
Как на украинский томос отреагировали высшие иерархи и священники Русской православной церкви (РПЦ)? Какие аргументы использовала РПЦ для отрицания права Православной церкви Украины (ПЦУ) на независимость от Москвы? После пяти лет... more
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      Russian StudiesUkrainian StudiesRussian Orthodox ChurchRussian Orthodoxy
Η απόφαση της Έκτακτης Ιεραρχίας της Εκκλησίας της Ελλάδος και η αναγνώριση του δικαιώματος του Οικουμενικού Πατριαρχείου να χορηγεί τόμους Αυτοκεφαλίας, έδωσε ώθηση στην έξοδο από την σιωπή και άλλων Ορθοδόξων Εκκλησιών. Ήδη αρκετές... more
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აღსანიშნავია, რომ 2014 წელს რუსეთ-უკრაინის ომის დაწყების შემდეგ მოსკოვის საპატრიარქოს დაქვემდებარებაში მყოფი უკრაინის მართლმადიდებელი ეკლესია უკრაინის ოთხ ეკლესიას შორის სულ უფრო ანაქრონისტული ხდება. მოსკოვის საპატრიარქოს კრემლის მიერ... more
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      Russian Orthodox ChurchGeorgiaGeorgian foreign policyOrthodox Church
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      Orthodox TheologyChristian Orthodoxy and NationalismOrthodox ChristianityMacedonia
There is no single dominant religion with which most of the populace would identify. The churches are largely regional in nature. The Ukrainian Orthodox Church — Kyiv Patriarchate, and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church — Moscow Patriarchate,... more
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      Ukrainian StudiesUkrainian PoliticsOrthodox ChristianityChurch-state relations
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      Orthodox ChristianityUkraineUkrainian Orthodox Church
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      ReligionRussian Orthodox ChurchChurch HistoryRussian-Ukrainian Relations
Responding to Tbilisi’s nervousness about Moscow’s possible recognition of Abkhazian autocephaly, the theologian Giorgi Tiginashvili maintains that it is shameful for the Georgian Orthodox Church to not support Ukrainian autocephaly. He... more
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      Ukrainian StudiesChristian Orthodoxy and NationalismEastern ChristianityRussian Orthodox Church
The aim of the article is to analyse the place and importance of the Orthodox Church in the society and political culture of Ukraine after 2013. The new political realities following the “revolution of dignity”, the annexation of Crimea... more
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      Political CultureRussian OrthodoxyUkrainian Church HistoryChurch and State
Najnowsze wydarzenia w dziejach współczesnego prawosławia, zwłaszcza w ostatnich trzech latach, mogą napawać pesymizmem i rozgoryczeniem. Powodem tego stanu rzeczy jest narastające napięcie strukturalne pomiędzy poszczególnymi wspólnotami... more
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      Russian Orthodox ChurchEcclesiologyEucharistOrthodox Ecclesiology
Євген Букет. Діяльність Гервасія (Линцевського) та Мельхіседека (Значко-Яворського) щодо перепідпорядкування православних парафій Правобережної України // Особистість у локальному історичному просторі: Переяславщина: матеріали круг. ст.... more
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      Ukraine (History)Ukrainian HistoryRussian-Ukrainian RelationsUkrainian & East European History, Eastern Orthodox Church History.
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      Orthodox EcclesiologyAutocephalyEclesiologyUkrainian Orthodox Church
Стаття має на меті з'ясувати, яке місце займає канонічне право як галузь права у взаємодії з іншими галузями права-церковним, міжнародним та державним. Зауважено, що дослідження правової природи канонічного та церковного права в... more
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      Canon LawChurch HistoryUkrainian Church HistoryChurch law
The Syrian Arab Republic and Ukraine are two states which, in the early twenty-first century, have become foci of competing visions for major powers to advance their own geopolitical interests. Both states, as a result, have struggled to... more
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      ReligionChristianityHistoryRussian Studies