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House of Commons | 26Apr2012 | Jason Kenney motion [video]
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Canadian Parliament
honours the memory of Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky
In the presence (left to right at the
ovation) of Patriarch Filaret of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church
(Kyivan Patriarchate), Major-Archbishop of Kyiv and all Ukraine,
Patriarch Sviatoslav of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, the Chief
Rabbi Jacob Dov Bleich of Kyiv and Ukraine, Metropolitan Mefodiy of
Kiev and all Ukraine (Ukrainian Autocephalous
Orthodox Church), the Mufti of Ukraine, Sheikh Ahmed Tamim
(Chairman of the Islamyat, Spiritual Board of Muslims of Ukraine) and
Archbishop Mieczysław Mokrzycki of Lviv of the Latin Catholics. There
was no representative of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (Moscow
Patriarchate), as it does not recognise the right to autonomy of other
Orthodox communities in Ukraine and relations with them is strained
owing to disputes over the ownership of churches, and objections to
their seizure and assignment by local groups and the authorities
alike. Nor was there a representation of the
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada (Patriarchate of
Constantinople), which does not recognise the Orthodox Churches of
Ukraine not of the Moscow Patriarchate as canonical. In hope
and loving solidarity with all Christians, we pray for the resolution
of all disagreements, the reconciliation of the Churches and the unity
of all the followers of Jesus Christ, "that the world may believe".
The event marked the presence in Canada of twenty religious leaders
from Ukraine, Orthodox, Catholic, Jewish, Evangelical,
Muslim, Adventist for the Symposium, Honouring
Andrey Sheptytsky: Ethical Action in Extreme Conditions at
St Paul University's Sheptytsky Institute for Eastern Christian
Studies.