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

[Frank Sysyn]

I see we are quickly descending  when the title of Metropolitan Epiphanius is expressed in this way. Sad

Frank

From: Irina du Quenoy <irishenka.2008 at gmail.com>
Sent: March 3, 2022 10:31 AM
To: David Goldfrank <goldfrad at georgetown.edu>
Cc: Frank Sysyn <f.sysyn at utoronto.ca>; asec at easternchristianity.org
Subject: Re: [Asec] Statement by ASEC Officers against the Invasion of Ukraine (adopted 25 February 2022)

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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<mailto: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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