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© 2020, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co. KG, Göttingen ISBN Print: 9783847111658 – ISBN E-Lib: 9783737011655 Church–especially inthosecontexts,whichvoted in favourofunificationwith thenewecclesial structure.40 5. Conclusion Oneof the toppriorities in the currentUkrainianecclesial crisis shouldbe the reconciliationofOrthodoxChurches,asa first steptowardthereconciliationof people from different ecclesial identities in Ukraine and eventually between UkraineandRussia.Forgivenessandreconciliationaretwocategorieswhichare deeplyrootedinChristiantraditionandmoreovertheyareinfactnormativefor Christianlife.Thelevelsonwhichactionisrequiredforachievingreconciliation areas follows:1)Pan-OrthodoxLevel– inorder tocreateamoreefficientpan- orthodox structure capable to create consensus with the Orthodox local Churches; 2)NationalLevel–with theaimtopromotepeaceat the levelof the civil society and to restore the Eucharistic communion between Orthodox Churches. 6. Sources Bremer,Thomas /Senyk,Sophia,Canhistory solve theconflict aboutUkrainianautoce- phaly?,in:PublicOrthodoxy,see:https://publicorthodoxy.org/2015/09/21/the-marks- of-autocephaly/ (accessedonJune13th2019). Bremer, Thomas / Senyk, Sophia, The Current Ecclesial Situation in Ukraine: Critical Remarks, in:St.Vladimir’sTheologicalQuarterly63/1/2019,pp.27–58. Chryssavgis,John,PastoralPerspectivesoftheUkrainianAutocephaly:APersonalFaceto a Political Issue, in: Evagelos Sotiropoulos (ed.), The Ecumenical Patriarchate and UkraineAutocephaly: Historical, Canonical, and Pastoral Perspectives, eBook 2019, pp.11–16. Denysenko,NicholasE.,TheOrthodoxChurch inUkraine,DeKalb2018. Denysenko,NicholasE.,Healing theUkrainianSchism.Aproposal for thenextstep, see: https://publicorthodoxy.org/2019/02/12/healing-the-ukrainian-schism-a-proposal- for-the-next-step/ (accessedonFebruary15th2019). 40 ThetransitionalprocessoftheparishestothenewChurchseemstobeviolentinsomeplaces. That is why a general frameworkmust be created so that this dispute can be gradually clarified. Otherwise, under the pressure of fake news and the instant spreading of in- formationondigitalplatforms, it ispossible tocauseconfusionandtono longerbeable to adequately evaluate the general situation. See, for example, Schismatics and Police beat Canonical Priest in Ternopil (Gnezdichno, Ukraine, February 4, 2019), see: http://ortho christian.com/119124.html (accessedonFebruary19th2019). “Forgivingoneanother” (Col. 3,13) 197 Open-Access-Publikation im Sinne der CC-Lizenz BY 4.0