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About Fr. Cyril Hovorun
Archimandrite Cyril Hovorun is an Orthodox priest, a postdoctoral research fellow at Loyola Marymount University, and a senior lecturer at Sankt Ignatios Academy/Stockholm School of Theology. He is the author of several works, including Will, Action, and Freedom: Christological Controversies in the Seventh Century (Brill, 2008), Meta-Ecclesiology: Chronicles on Church Awareness (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), and Scaffolds of the Church: Towards Poststructural Ecclesiology (Cascade, 2017). Fr Cyril chaired the Department of External relations of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. He also bore responsibilities for the modernisation of the system of theological education in the Russian Orthodox Church, when he was the first deputy chairman of the Educational Committee of the Moscow Patriarchate.
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Ukraine, the Ecumenical Patriarchate, and Post-truth: An Orthodox Perspective

November 25, 2018 Fr. Cyril Hovorun 4

A sickness which long afflicted the Ukrainian church had become chronic. That is probably the best way to describe the background to the historic decision by the Ecumenical Patriarch to take responsibility for spiritual affairs […]

Analysis

The Panorthodox Council: A Fragile Hope for Aggiornamento?

July 10, 2016 Fr. Cyril Hovorun 0

The Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church recently concluded its sessions in Crete. I am not aware of any other international or ecclesial forum that was ever in preparation for as long as […]

Special Report

As Pan-Orthodox Council Approaches, Conflicts and Uncertainty Intensify

June 8, 2016 Fr. Cyril Hovorun 0

Although only a few days remain until the Eastern Pentecost, when the Pan-Orthodox council has been scheduled, uncertainty remains whether the gathering in Crete will take place. It is the same uncertainty which I described […]

Analysis

Between Cuba and Crete: A Storm Ahead for the Russian Orthodox?

February 26, 2016 Fr. Cyril Hovorun 1

It seems that Cuba and Crete, two islands as remote from each other as can be, both geographically and culturally, have recently become connected by an invisible thread. One hosted a surprise meeting between Pope […]

Analysis

The Fragile Promise of the Pan-Orthodox Council

March 14, 2014 Fr. Cyril Hovorun 0

An Assembly (Synaxis) of the Primates of the local Orthodox Churches, meeting March 6-9, 2014 in Istanbul, has agreed to convene a Pan-Orthodox council. A “Communiqué of the Primates of the Orthodox Churches” released on […]

Analysis

Christians in Ukraine: Ecumenism in the Trenches

March 4, 2014 Fr. Cyril Hovorun 0

The religious map of Ukraine on the eve of the protests that began in November 2013 looked like a mosaic of military camps. The troops did not conduct active maneuvers nor openly attack each other. […]

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