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 ...
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 ...
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 ...