Bucharest, October 29, 2024
Photo: Trinitas TV screenshot
The head of the schismatic “Orthodox Church of Ukraine” was commemorated during the Divine Liturgy at the Patriarchal Cathedral in Bucharest, Romania, on Saturday, which was celebrated by the visiting primate of the Orthodox Church of Cyprus.
Archbishop Georgios of Cyprus is in Bucharest for the annual pilgrimage in honor of the city’s patron, St. Demetrius the New. While the Cypriot Church tacitly recognizes the schismatic OCU, the Romanian Orthodox Church does not.
The Divine Liturgy was broadcast by the Romanian Orthodox Church’s Trinitas TV, including the Archbishop’s commemoration of “Metropolitan” Epiphany Dumenko of the OCU, reports the Union of Orthodox Journalists.
Thus, the Cypriot primate chose not to respect the canonical and liturgical order of the Romanian Church, but instead brought his own practice.
Patriarch Theodoros ignores request of Metropolitan of Limassol, commemorates schismatics in Liturgy (+ VIDEO)As video from the Liturgy published by the Orthodox journalist Alexander Voznesensky, who was present at the service, shows, Pat. Theodoros ignored this request and commemorated Epiphany anyways.
“>The same thing happened five years ago, when Patriarch Theodoros of Alexandria commemorated Dumenko in Cyprus, at a time before the Cypriot Church had recognized the OCU in any way, despite having 
Patriarch of Alexandria broke promise that he wouldn’t commemorate Epiphany Dumenko in CyprusDuring the broadcast, Met. Athanasios stressed that the bishops of the Patriarchate of Alexandria who were traveling with Pat. Theodoros assured him from the moment they arrived that the Patriarch had promised not to commemorate Epiphany Dumenko. Further, the Patriarch himself did not warn Met. Athanasios during the Liturgy that he intended to commemorate the schismatic.”>promised that he wouldn’t.
Meanwhile, the Romanian Church has established its own “
Romanian Church intends to push ahead with “Romanian Orthodox Church in Ukraine”The Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church has announced its intentions to move ahead with its “Romanian Orthodox Church in Ukraine” project despite legal setbacks.
“>Romanian Orthodox Church in Ukraine,” which it hopes to legally register.
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