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Oct 14, 2026
Conrad FranzHOST
And speaking of what the non-canonical goobers get up to, it says here, OCU uniates and Protestants hold ecumenical prayer service in Kortitsia.
Conrad FranzHOST
Chaplains from the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, the schismatics, the UGCC, the uniates, and Protestant denominations held a joint ecumenical prayer service in Kortitsia Island in Zaporizhia.
Conrad FranzHOST
Zaporizhia City Council reports the event marking Chaplains Day took place in church within the Zaporizhian Sikh historical and cultural complex.
Conrad FranzHOST
The joint service attended by representatives of various denominations was held by OCU chaplain Viktor Tkach and included a special prayer for Ukraine.
Dimitri KalyuginHOST
However, Estonia, it's a different situation.
Dimitri KalyuginHOST
Estonia has seen Orthodox Christianity in its territory since the time of the baptism of Rus, literally 900s, 990s, early 1000s AD under Yaroslav the Wise, who is a saint now canonized by the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, the saint, the son of Saint Vladimir.
Dimitri KalyuginHOST
Estonian territory has been Orthodox for longer than in fact it has been Catholic, I'm pretty sure, just Roman Catholic generally.
Dimitri KalyuginHOST
So Estonia really to be one of the frontlines of Orthodox Church persecution is really not surprising considering how it is really on the, on the frontier of, I would say, spreading Orthodoxy in the Baltic region anyway and how the powers that be would want to prevent that.
Nina ByzantinaHOST
I've looked at, for instance, the role of the Patriarch of Constantinople endorsing this breakaway, mm, schismatic church in Ukraine, and then deliberately uses a very similar name.
Nina ByzantinaHOST
It's the, uh, Orthodox Church of Ukraine instead of Ukrainian Orthodox Church to make it very confusing for people reading news articles unless they really know what's going on.
Nina ByzantinaHOST
That seems deliberate.
Nina ByzantinaHOST
So w-what have you found out about, about this whole thing with Epiphanius?
Volodymyr YermolenkoHOST
What role does religion play in Ukraine? How pluralistic is the country's religious landscape? Which Christian denominations are the most influential, and how does Christianity coexist with Islam and Judaism? Why is Ukrainian Orthodoxy divided, and what is the story behind the emergence of an autocephalous Orthodox Church of Ukraine? And how does Russia use its branch of Orthodoxy in Ukraine as an instrument of political influence? You're listening to the Explain Ukraine podcast.
Volodymyr YermolenkoHOST
Explain Ukraine is a podcast by Ukraine World, an English-language media outlet about Ukraine.
Volodymyr YermolenkoHOST
My name is Volodymyr Hermolonko.
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Cyril HovorunGUEST
It comes from the documents of the Ecumenical Patriarchy establishing the metropolia, the main diocese of Kyiv.
Cyril HovorunGUEST
And from this church ecclesiastical, pure ecclesiastical documents, coming from the Ecumenical Patriarchate, Patriarchate of Constantinople, stems the very word Russia, Russia, which was later adopted by Moscow.
Cyril HovorunGUEST
Which means that Ukrainian orthodoxy is prior to the Russian orthodoxy or to the Muscovite orthodoxy.
Cyril HovorunGUEST
And Ukraine received its orthodoxy from the Ecumenical Patriarchate, indeed as Eastern Christianity.
Cyril HovorunGUEST
And we still hold it.
Volodymyr YermolenkoHOST
[on-hold music] What role does religion play in Ukraine? How pluralistic is the country's religious landscape? Which Christian denominations are the most influential, and how does Christianity coexist with Islam and Judaism? Why is Ukrainian Orthodoxy divided, and what is the story behind the emergence of an autocephalous Orthodox Church of Ukraine? And how does Russia use its branch of Orthodoxy in Ukraine as an instrument of political influence? You're listening to the Explain Ukraine podcast.
Volodymyr YermolenkoHOST
[on-hold music] Explain Ukraine is a podcast by Ukraine World, an English language media outlet about Ukraine.
Volodymyr YermolenkoHOST
My name is Volodymyr Yermolenko.
6 MINS LATER
Cyril HovorunGUEST
It comes from the, uh, documents of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, uh, establishing the Metropolia, uh, the main diocese of Kyiv.
Cyril HovorunGUEST
And, uh, from this, uh, this church, ecclesiastical, pure ecclesiastical documents, uh, coming from the Ecumenical Patriarchate, Patriarchate of Constantinople, stems the wor- very word Russia, Russia, which was later adopted by, um, uh, by Moscow.
Cyril HovorunGUEST
Uh, and which means that Ukrainian Orthodoxy is kind of, is, is, is prior to the Russian Orthodoxy or to the Muscovite Orthodoxy.
Cyril HovorunGUEST
And Ukraine received its Orthodoxy from the Ecumenical Patriarchate, indeed as a, as, as Eastern Christianity, and, uh, we still hold it.
Cyril HovorunGUEST
Uh, the, the thing, the, and, and, and there is a nuance that y- Orthodoxy, yes, it is a majority, a religious majority in Ukraine, but it's not the only religious tradition in Ukraine.
Dimitri KalyuginHOST
And then you have the Ethiopian mainstream government, which is very, shall we say, Americanized And they've been trying to modernize Ethiopia, but not in the correct way.
Dimitri KalyuginHOST
It's certainly not bringing it back to the Oriental Orthodox Church, so to speak, not traditional and certainly not monarchist.
Dimitri KalyuginHOST
So it's hard to say that there's a particular side that you'd want to join with and that you'd want to support on this particular continent.
Dimitri KalyuginHOST
But it is also poignant to say that generally speaking, Ethiopian culture is very philo-Semitic, like across the board.
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Dimitri KalyuginHOST
And of course, you know, as the midterms, you know, move closer and sort of the American politics becomes more introverted, you know, hopefully at least, you know, isn't hyper fixated on starting politics.
Dimitri KalyuginHOST
reigniting the war against Iran.
Dimitri KalyuginHOST
There will be, of course, sort of a new renewed calls, most likely, again, from the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, requesting the assistance of various members of Congress, various senators in America.
Dimitri KalyuginHOST
I mean, there's been already calls for help.
Matthew D. TaylorGUEST
We often find it blending with a kind of tribalism in different contexts.
Matthew D. TaylorGUEST
I mean, in Russia today, the Russian Orthodox Church has declared The war against Ukraine as a holy war against the Ukrainian Orthodox Church that they believe is heretical.
Matthew D. TaylorGUEST
And they have blessed Vladimir Putin.
Matthew D. TaylorGUEST
And they have said that soldiers who die in this war will have their sins forgiven because they are doing the work of God.
Conrad FranzHOST
And Metropolitan Emmanuel, this is one of the worst of the worst as far as Phanariots go.
Conrad FranzHOST
But it says here, a leaked internal Constantinople document describes President Petro Poroshenko and Ukraine's security service keeping the Patriarch of Constantinople's delegation under round-the-clock surveillance in the days around the December 28th Unification Council, 2018 Unification Council in Kiev, which created the schismatic Orthodox Church of Ukraine.
Conrad FranzHOST
According to an exclusive report by the Union of Orthodox Journalists of America, the document is a chronicle of more than 20 pages addressed to Patriarch Bartholomew, authored by Metropolitan Gregorios of Ankara, who was a deacon of the Patriarchal Court at the time.
Conrad FranzHOST
Sorry, my nose was just really itchy.
Bryan BruceHOST
It's in central Kyiv.
Bryan BruceHOST
Taras has managed to arrange an interview with Father Petro, the Ukrainian Orthodox priest who had officiated at Andrew's memorial service back in January of 2023. an event that had been streamed around the world and attended by local and international press.
Bryan BruceHOST
Because Andrew's death, while on a humanitarian mission, had been big news.
PetroGUEST
St Sophia Cathedral is impressive.