I used to be a priest of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate for more than 20 years, and now I am a priest of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine. It’s a newborn Church with a thousand years of history.
Last June at the XXIII Orientale Lumen conference in Washington, DC, I was asked to give a balanced presentation on the situation and how the overlapping jurisdictions are affecting the clergy and people in Ukraine. As a presbyter of one part of the divided flock, I can hardly avoid some personal and sometimes painful issues. But I will try to be fair. Here below is a brief summary of my paper.
Andriy Dudchenko, archpriest
