Belarusian Orthodox Church

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Cyrillic ( Belarusian )
Беларуская Праваслаўная Царква
Łacinka : Biełaruskaja Pravasłaŭnaja Carkva
Transl. : Belaruskaya Pravaslaŭnaja Carkva
Transcr. : Belaruskaya Pravaslavnaya Tsarkva
Cyrillic ( Russian )
Белорусская Православная Церковь
Transl. : Belorusskaya Pravoslavnaja Cerkov '
Transcr. : Belorusskaya Pravoslavnaya Tserkov

The Belarusian Orthodox Church (also Belarusian Exarchate of the Moscow Patriarchate ) is an Orthodox church based in Minsk . It is subordinate to a metropolitan who in turn reports to the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church in Moscow .

history

Since the 16th century, part of the population of the country then ruled by Poland belonged to the United Church , which was established by the Union of Brest in 1595 and is under the Pope , but celebrates its services according to the Byzantine rite . After the annexation of the Belarusian territories to the Russian Empire, steps were taken to abolish the union on the part of the state and the Russian Orthodox Church, especially in the early 19th century. The majority of the Uniate returned to Orthodoxy, while others adopted the Roman Catholic (Latin) rite. In the Soviet Union , the union was completely abolished in 1948 and today there is only a small Uniate community in Belarus . The Belarusian Orthodox Church was founded in 1991 as an independent organization from the previous dioceses of the Russian Orthodox Church in the former Belarusian Soviet Republic in order to take into account the fact that Belarus had become an independent state, which, however, still maintains close relations with Russia . Since the 2003 Concordat , the Belarusian Orthodox Church has been the most heavily state-supported denomination in Belarus.

The impending independence of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church from October 2018 led to new considerations about the status of the Belarusian Orthodox Church. The historian Andrei Subov suggested that the head of state Aljaksandr Lukashenka would hardly speak out against any further possibility of gaining some distance from Moscow.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Agreement on cooperation between the Republic of Belarus and the Belarusian Orthodox Church (2003): Text
  2. BELARUS: New concordat gives Orthodox enhanced status
  3. ^ For the sake of the cross , Novaya Gazeta, October 16, 2018
  4. "We're bombing Voronezh again" , Novaya Gazeta, October 17, 2018 ("Bombs on Voronezh" is a Russian phrase for an action that harms itself .)