A synod of Ukrainian bishops has now approved a calendar reform that will divide Ukrainian religious practice from Russia’s
He did not know that the Russian government was going to speed things along by invading Ukraine and massacring thousands of innocent people. And maybe he cannot have anticipated that Patriarch Kirill was going to celebrate the whole thing publicly and incessantly, blackening his reputation so badly that even “his” Russian Orthodox churches in Ukraine no longer utter his name in church services.
And, rather significantly, this is admitted to be the whole point. Orthodox communities began to contemplate adopting Gregorian dates for feasts tied to the man-made calendar in the 1920s. The churches that made the change don’t explicitly use the Gregorian calendar, a creation of the Latin church — that would be a step too far in the direction of the West. They technically use a
that happens to coincide with the sun’s motions closely, but that incorporates a slightly different leap-year calculation.Article content Anyway, calendar reform in the Orthodox world was political from the beginning. Some Orthodox churches, such as Russia’s, took the view that the Julian calendar was prescribed by the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD, and that the church shouldn’t change because of worldly considerations, even ones as obtrusive as the motions of celestial bodies.
Political considerations obviously influenced the national churches’ decisions, but it’s naturally dangerous to base a theological argument entirely on political circumstances. Metropolitan Epiphanius, however, was very frank in announcing
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