Patriarch Kirill, a close ally of President Vladimir ... was published late Tuesday on a Telegram channel run by exiled Russian church affairs journalist Ksenia Luchenko. She identified the ...

MOSCOW (JTA) — The newly elected head of the Russian Orthodox Church reached out to Jewish leaders. Patriarch Kirill, who was elected at a session in Moscow last week and enthroned Sunday ...

recognized the Orthodox Church of Ukraine as independent from Moscow in 2019 — a move that prompted Russian Patriarch Kirill and the Russian Orthodox Church to sever contact. “No force can ...

The leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, is one of the loudest supporters of the war. “After the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia lost its connection with the ancestral ...

Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill of Moscow (OSV News/Patriarchal Press Service handout via Reuters/Oleg Varaov) Such voices have been completely drowned out, however, by the Russian Orthodox ...

Patriarch Kirill, a close ally of President Vladimir Putin ... intending to use it to weaken our country and the influence of the Russian Orthodox Church," Kirill said without citing evidence. He did ...