KYIV -- The head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Filaret, has said the Ukrainian church will never go back under the control of the Moscow Patriarchate. Filaret told journalists in Kyiv on ...

Ukraines Patriarch Filaret was one of the top leaders in the Soviet era Russian Orthodox Church. But after the Soviet Union crumbled in 1991 and he began a campaign to give his native Ukraine an ...

Honorable Patriarch Filaret (Denysenko) of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Orthodox Church of Ukraine) has said that anti-Ukrainian forces are exerting influence on OCU leader Metropolitan Epiphanius ...

The charge was made by the spokesman of the UOC-MP, after a meeting of the Christian religious communities with President Petro Poroshenko. Filaret rejects the accusations: the war is the fault of the ...

Honorary Patriarch of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) Filaret does not rule out a split of the OCU due to his own status of patriarch. He has said this in an interview for the 1+1 TV channel, ...

MINSK, 12 January (BelTA) - Metropolitan Filaret, Honorary Patriarchal Exarch of All Belarus, has passed away, BelTA learned . Holder of the Hero of Belarus title, prominent Orthodox Church figure, ...

The ascetic quarters on Kyiv’s Pushkinska Street, where Filaret has lived since the 1960s, reflect both the relative poverty of his Kyiv Patriarchate and its negative attitude to ostentatious displays ...

Vladimir Boiko/Global Look Press Feodor Romanov, a 17th-century bon vivant nobleman, was forced to join a monastery and spent almost a decade in captivity; however, his son Mikhail became tsar of ...