The congratulations that Metropolitan Savva of Warsaw and All Poland of the Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church sent to Kirill on the 14th anniversary of his accession to the patriarchal throne of the Russian Orthodox Church outraged Ukrainian public organizations in Poland. They appealed to Savva to condemn Russia's criminal actions in Ukraine. The initiators of the appeal called this greeting "a glorification of crime and the farce of Christianity that he performs." This is reported by...
Das Oberhaupt der Polnischen Autokephalen Orthodoxen Kirche (PAOK), Metropolit Sawa (Hrycuniak), hat sich in einem öffentlichen Schreiben entschuldigt, dass er dem russisch-orthodoxen Patriarchen Kirill zum 14. Jahrestag seiner Inthronisierung am 1. Februar 2009 mit herzlichen Worten gratuliert hat. Der Brief Sawas, den das Moskauer Patriarchat veröffentlicht hatte, löste in der polnischen Öffentlichkeit großen Wirbel aus. Sawa hatte das Oberhaupt der Russischen Orthodoxen Kirche für seine...
Ihre übergroße Dankbarkeit für die „enorme“ Unterstützung aus dem Nachbarland haben die römisch-katholischen Bischöfe der Ukraine in einem Brief an die Katholiken in Polen ausgedrückt. Obwohl die Ukraine derzeit Krieg, Leid und Verwüstung erlebe, wisse sich die dortige Kirche „nicht alleine, denn die Kirche in Polen ist bei ihr“, schreiben die ukrainischen Bischöfe anlässlich des in Polen am zweiten Adventsonntag begangenen „Tag des Gebets und der materiellen Hilfe für die Kirche im Osten“...
This year’s World Day of Orthodox Youth celebrations were attended by a record number of people for recent years, including a large number of guests from abroad. The event was held, with the blessing of His Beatitude Metropolitan Sawa of Warsaw and All Poland, from February 10 to 12 in Warsaw. On Friday evening, after the participants were registered, they were taken to the Forest Education Center in the village of Celestynów, where they enjoyed the play “Road to Paradise,” and a concert of...
The Polish Orthodox Church was doubly honored at a two-part state ceremony on Friday, February 3, recognized for its humanitarian work and the importance of two medieval monasteries. In the first part of the ceremony, seven Church activists in the field of social aid and activities, including several who work with the Church’s ELEOS charitable service, were honored by Secretary of State Wojciech Kolarski on behalf of President Andrzej Duda, reports the press service of the Polish Church.
Die Polnische Bischofskonferenz hat erneut Kritik am Umgang von Papst Johannes Paul II. (1978–2005) mit Fällen von Kindesmissbrauch zurückgewiesen. In einer am 18. November veröffentlichten Erklärung des Ständigen Rates der Bischofskonferenz heißt es, dass Johannes Paul II. „dem Problem des Missbrauchs mit Klarheit und Entschlossenheit“ entgegengetreten sei. Er habe bereits 1983 im neuen Codex des Kanonischen Rechts kirchliche Vorgesetzte dazu verpflichtet, Geistliche, die sich des sexuellen...
Eight years after the foundation stone was laid, construction on Warsaw’s Hagia Sophia Cathedral is finally complete. His Beatitude Metropolitan Sawa of Warsaw and All Poland announced the joyous news to the faithful of the Polish Church in a statement published Friday, thanking them for their financial, physical, and prayerful support of the construction process. The cathedral was built in honor of those who died in the Warsaw Uprising and labor camps in World War I and II and who were exiled...
Several years of dedicated labor have finally culminated in the publication of the Polish Orthodox Church’s own translation of the complete New Testament. The commission established by the Polish Holy Synod recently completed its work on Revelation—the final book of the New Testament, the Church reports. “It’s no exaggeration to say that this is a great event for Orthodoxy in Poland,” the report reads. “Neither clergy nor laypeople will have to choose between numerous non-Orthodox New Testament...
The acceptance of the Macedonian Orthodox Church-Ohrid Archbishopric into the global Orthodox communion continues as another Local Church has officially resolved to recognize its canonical status. The Council of Bishops of the Polish Orthodox Church gathered in Warsaw on 27. October 2022 under the chairmanship of His Beatitude Metropolitan Sawa of Warsaw and All Poland, with the participation of every bishop of the Polish Church, reports the chancellery of the Polish Council of Bishops.
