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After what the secretary for the Bessarabian Orthodox Metropolia described as a “ten-year battle” for state registration, the Moldovan government’s State Service for the Affairs of Cults has finally registered the Orthodox jurisdiction, which forms part of the Patriarchate in neighbouring Romania. Keston News Service – 31 July 2002 – “Everyone is pleased. We have fought […]
A sacked bishop is threatening to reveal the names of colleagues he says were prepared to agree to a controversial plan for the Serbian Orthodox Church to subsume its Macedonian counterpart. IWPR – 24 July 2002 – Bishop Jovan of Veles and Povardarje was denounced as a “traitor” earlier this month and stripped of his titles […]
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The Holy Synod of the Macedonian Orthodox Church stripped Metropolitan Jovan of the Veles-Vardar region of his church functions and ordered him to retire to a monastery, RFE/RL’s South Slavic and Albanian Languages Service reported from Skopje on 6 July. RFE/RL – 8 July 2002 – Jovan, who recently reached an agreement recognizing the authority of […]
A deal between the Serbian and Macedonian churches to resolve a decades-long dispute over the latter’s status has divided public opinion in Macedonia and triggered accusations of treason. IWPR – 7 June 2002 – The row erupted after the two bodies signed an agreement on May 17, 2002, which abolished the Macedonian church’s independent autocephalous status […]
This article was first published on 7 June 2002 (BCR No 341) by the Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR), London. Posted on Religioscope with permission.Articles published by the IWPR on Afghanistan, Central Asia, the Balkans, the Caucasus as well as other topics can be accessed on its website:
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IWPR supports recovery and development in crisis zones by providing professional training, financial assistance and an international platform to independent media, human rights activists and other local democratic voices. IWPR’s primary beneficiaries are local journalists who participate in its reporting, research and training programmes.
A Macedonian bishop has been accused of treason after deciding to accept the authority of the Serbian Orthodox Patriarch over that of Macedonia’s own Orthodox church. Background: click here for an earlier report (June 2002). Update: Greek newspaper Kathimerini reported on 8 July 2002: “Bishop Ioannis of Veles, in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), […]
This article was first published on 3 July 2002 (BCR No 347) by the Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR), London. Posted on Religioscope with permission.Articles published by the IWPR on Afghanistan, Central Asia, the Balkans, the Caucasus as well as other topics can be accessed on its website:
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IWPR supports recovery and development in crisis zones by providing professional training, financial assistance and an international platform to independent media, human rights activists and other local democratic voices. IWPR’s primary beneficiaries are local journalists who participate in its reporting, research and training programmes.
Despite the expiry today of the deadline for the Moldovan government to pay compensation ordered by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg to the Orthodox Church of the Bessarabian jurisdiction for repeated refusal to grant it registration, there is little sign that compensation will be paid soon. Update: in July 2002, Bessarabian […]
An ongoing debate between two rival branches of the Estonian Orthodox Church has underscored continued tensions between the Baltic country’s Russians and ethnic Estonians. After Estonia regained its independence in 1991, the country’s single Soviet-era Orthodox Church split into two branches. One — the Estonian Apostolic Orthodox Church, under jurisdiction of Constantinople — was registered […]
This article was first published on 10 May 2002 by RFE/RL (Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty). Posted on RELIGIOSCOPE with permission. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty is a private, international communications service to Eastern and Southeastern Europe, Russia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and the Middle East, funded by the United States Congress. RELIGIOSCOPE highly recommends the RFE/RL website, with its informative daily newsline and various other reports: http://www.rferl.org/
Estonia’s Interior Ministry has finally registered the branch of the Russian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) in the Baltic state, ending a legal wrangle that has blighted relations between the Tallinn and Moscow governments since 1993, when the Estonian government registered a rival Orthodox Church under the jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. Keston News Service – […]
A schism has developed in the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR), one of the larger exile Russian Orthodox churches, over leadership issues and the prospect of rapprochement with the Russian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate). Following the retirement of Metropotitan Vitaly Ustinov (b. 1910), who had been the Primate of the ROCOR since 1986, the […]
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