[Asec] Statement by ASEC Officers against the Invasion of Ukraine (adopted 25 February 2022)

[Irina du Quenoy]

And also ... sorry, but not all Ukrainian Orthodox will agree with you that
the "Orthodox Church of Ukraine" is nascent.  Talk to any priest/bishop
right now within the UOC-MP: in 2018/2019, most parishes in Ukraine stayed
within that structure rather than joining the "newly autocephalous"
structure headed by Epiphanius Dumenko;  today, on the ground, the
overwhelming sentiment within the UOC-MP is that THEY are the Ukrainian
church, and overwhelmingly they want autocephaly from Moscow but not to
join the "nascent' structure you refer to. It's a mess, in short, and I
join David in requesting that we be very, very careful with terminology.

On Thu, Mar 3, 2022 at 10:20 AM David Goldfrank <goldfrad at georgetown.edu>
wrote:

> Thanks, Frank:
>
> Not at all important in the light of leitmotif, the need for more Orthodox
> prelates to condemn Putin's criminal war, but silly or careless mistake in
> the article:  "... the nascent Orthodox Church of Ukraine in 2019 (for
> centuries, it has been under administrative leadership of the Patriarch of
> Moscow):" The author doesn't know of the 1721-1917 sinodal period in
> Russian Church history?
>
> best to all -- stay safe, well ...
>
> David G
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