CRIMEA - DONBASS - UKRAINE

CRIMEA – DONBASS – UKRAINE

Press release 213 E

1. “The Patriarchal Calendar for 2018” (the official edition of the Moscow Patriarchy of the Russian Orthodox Church, 2017; with the portrait of Patriarch Kyrill on the front cover page) contains the portraits of all the metropolitans, archbishops and bishops of the Moscow Patriarchate. Among them are the portraits of the hierarchs of the Ukraine Orthodox Church (watch further).

2. There are the portraits of Lazar, the metropolitan of Simferopol and Crimea; of Platon, the metropolitan of Theodosia and Kerch; of Ilarion, the metropolitan of Donetsk and Mariupol; of Mitrophan, the metropolitan of Lugansk and Alchevsk; of Arseniy, the metropolitan of Saint Mountains, the vicar of Donetsk bishopric; of Mitrophan, the metropolitan of Gorlovka and Slavyansk; of Alipiy, the archbishop of Krasniy Liman, the vicar of Gorlovka bishopric; of Varnava, the archbishop of Makeevka, the vicar of the Donetsk bishopric among the portraits of the Ukraine Orthodox Church hierarchs.

3. It means, that the Crimea and the Donbass eparchies are enlisted by the Moscow Patriarchate as the Ukraine eparchies.

4. It means, that Patriarch Kyrill has the political point of view, which differs from the point of view of President Putin.

5. Peace unto you! (John, 20:19)

Professor N. E. Alyoshin