CHURCH TERRITORY AND JURISDICTION ISSUES

Authors

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35332/2411-4677.2017.17.31

Keywords:

territory, jurisdiction, Metropolis, Mother Church, Patriarch Dionysius, Tomos, autocephaly, Hetman Ivan Samoilovych, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, president Poroshenko.

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to outline the principles for establishing the limits of jurisdictional rights of Local (National) churches, to assess unlawful submission of Kyiv Metropolis by Moscow and unfounded claims of the Russian Church on the territory of Ukraine and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Kyiv Patriarchate.

Published

2017-09-28