Abstract
An important moment in the recent history of the Eastern Orthodox Church was for sure the recognition granted to the Ukrainian Orthodoxy by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople with the Tomos of autocephaly (2019). Praised by some Orthodox churches and damned by other, it was preceded by some attempts of negotiation initiated by the Ecumenical Patriarchate and by a few meetings between the representatives of the aforementioned institution, Russian Patriarchate and the Ukrainian local churches that was later recognised by Constantinople and by a Schism between the Constantinople and Moscow. At the same time, it divided the local Orthodox churches between the ones who sustain one or the other side or prefer to remain in a neutral state and determined later meetings like the one from Amman in Jordan (2020), between leaders and representatives of the Orthodox Church. Conscious of the relevance of the event and its potential consequences, we have tried here to see how it was reflected in the ecumenical space. Therefore, we have proceeded to the investigation of the journals from the ecumenical area that spoke about it, and we analysed the way how they saw it and emphasised the main elements that have raised their interest. Together with the ecclesiastical challenges, we found that they were also interested in this problem not only for its theological meaning but also because of its geopolitical relevance. The research, based on the literature investigated, therefore presents the Ukrainian problem and its image in the ecumenical space.Contribution: The research investigates how the image of the Eastern Orthodox Church changed in the ecumenical space after the foundation of the New Ukrainian Church and the debates that followed inside of the Orthodox space in this context. It is linked with the scope of the journal due to the fact that investigates a topic relevant for the ecumenical area and presents a topic that can contribute in the future to the change of the relationships with different churches with the Orthodox one.
Highlights
An important moment in the history of the Orthodox Church, which will for sure bring challenges and will influence the ecumenical space, the foundation of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Church, prepared from 2018, that officially came into fruition with the Tomos released by the Ecumenical Patriarchate at the Baptism feast from 2019, was already debated both by the specialists from the Orthodox space (Ciocioi 2019) and from the ones coming from different Christian denominations
The aim of this study is none of the above. It tries to see which are the main journals from the ecumenical space that speak about the Ukrainian situation, what are the main aspects that arouse their interest and what is the general attitude towards the events and the two Patriarchate that are debating their primacy in Ukrainian space and how the political implication in the problem is seen
Regarding the Orthodox relevance, it has been already written and we are conscious of the fact that the future ecumenical dialogue with the Orthodox churches will be surely influenced by that
Summary
An important moment in the history of the Orthodox Church, which will for sure bring challenges and will influence the ecumenical space, the foundation of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Church, prepared from 2018, that officially came into fruition with the Tomos released by the Ecumenical Patriarchate at the Baptism feast from 2019 (https://www.archons.org/documents/2170772/4799571/ eBook+Ukraine+FINAL/a64e778b-651e-4a08-baee-4d591a70a651, viewed 12 March 2020), was already debated both by the specialists from the Orthodox space (Ciocioi 2019) and from the ones coming from different Christian denominations. Number contained the later documents (Editor 2018d: 394–443), namely the one that took to the schism, whilst the last number for 2018 (Editor 2018e:554–614) contained documents published by Istina, namely the official documents that brought the schism together with opinions like the one of the Metropolite Anthony of Boryspil and Bovary (Editor 2018e:602–603), Head of Communication of Kiev formation of the Orthodox Church subordinated to Moscow As it can be seen, the Ukrainian autocephaly and the debates that accompanied it have raised the interest of the Ecumenical space and were emphasised in important journals from this area
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