Events

On February 9, the Annual General Meeting of the non-governmental organization Sophia Brotherhood was held online via Zoom.

A presentation by religious publicist Tetiana Derkach at the Third International Conference on Freedom of Religion and Belief (Barcelona), organized by the Chair of Religious Freedom and Conscience of Catalonia and the Blanquerna Observatory on Media, Religion and Culture.

Dear friends! We are happy to share some good news — we have just received from the printing house the new print run of the Sophia Brotherhood Church Calendar for 2026.

During Great Lent 2025, the Chairman of the “St. Sophia Brotherhood,” Protopriest Oleksandr Sorokin, made the decision to join the Orthodox Church of Ukraine after leaving the parish of St. Alexander Nevsky of the UOC in the village of Khotiv, Kyiv region, where he had served as the second priest for three years.

At the Stauropegion of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Ukraine (located at the St. Andrew’s Church in Kyiv), a presentation was held for the new Orthodox Prayer Book of the Kyiv recension.

Sophia Brotherhood member, Professor Andriy Smyrnov, participated in the in-person gathering of the Pilgrimage of Justice, Reconciliation, and Unity Reference Group, convened for the first time by the World Council of Churches (WCC) from March 13 to 18 in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

The publication was carried out by the Mission of the “Stauropegion of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Ukraine” under the leadership of the Exarch of the Ecumenical Patriarch in Ukraine, Bishop Mykhailo of Komana.

Our Ukrainian people cherish their age-old traditions with special reverence. We have many traditions, deeply rooted in our daily lives and uniting us in the shared existence on our native land.

Our calendar has a unique format—it combines both the Revised Julian and Julian church calendars. When opened, each month displays feast days according to the Revised Julian calendar at the top and the Julian calendar at the bottom.

The conference-hackathon titled “The Sophia Brotherhood – a Community of Idealistic Dreamers or Pragmatic Doers?” has concluded in Kyiv.

On Thursday, November 14, a conference-hackathon titled “The Sophia Brotherhood – a Community of Idealistic Dreamers or Pragmatic Doers?” began in Kyiv.

On October 29, 2024, a webinar “Ukraine’s Banning Russian Orthodox Church and Affiliated Organizations: Legal and Juridical Aspects” was held. On the invitation of the organizers, the head of the “Academic Initiative” Foundation Sergii Bortnyk spoke at the panel “Bottom-up Initiatives: What Impact Has the Law on Grassroots Dialogue Initiatives?”

Yesterday’s meeting of the Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church turned out to be historic. For the first time in UOC history, the decisions of this governing body were not published anywhere, although they have always been made public immediately after the meeting, either on the official website (or in the 1990s, in the journal “Orthodox Herald” or “Church Newspaper”).

Today (October 23) has every chance to become a landmark date in the history of global Orthodoxy. This is because today, the Synods of two Churches, which have many unresolved issues between them—the Ecumenical Patriarchate and the Ukrainian Church (UOC)—are both in session.

Yesterday, on August 28, a long-awaited and significant event took place for the Sophia Brotherhood. Responding to our initiative, members of the Ecumenical Patriarchate’s delegation, consisting of Archbishop Ilarion of Winnipeg, Metropolitan of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada, Metropolitan Job of Pisidia, and Patriarchal Deacon Epifanii Kamianovych, met with representatives of our non-governmental organization at St. Andrew’s Church.

On April 25, Sophia Brotherhood organized an online meeting of members and friends of the Brotherhood with Rev. Dr. Cyrill Hovorun and Dr. Serhiy Shumylo on the topic «“Russian World” – Heresy or Anti-Christian Ideology?»

A ZOOM-meeting of members and friends of the Sophia Brotherhood with the Chairman of the Stavropegy of the Ecumenical Patriarch in Ukraine, Bishop Michael of Comania, took place on Sunday, April 14.

On March 29, 2024, members of the NGO Sophia Brotherhood attended the All-Ukrainian Scientific and Practical Conference “The Current State of Orthodoxy in Ukraine: Challenges, Issues, and Outlook”.

For the first time since the foundation of the Sofia Brotherhood, an extended meeting of its Board and founders was held (online).

The Constituent Assembly of the non-governmental organization “Sofia Brotherhood” was held in Sofia Kyivska.