The head of the Russian Orthodox Church publicly ridiculed ... according to a leaked video recording. Patriarch Kirill, a close ally of President Vladimir Putin, has been a vocal supporter of ...

Pope Francis will meet Patriarch Kirill fully aware of the Russian patriarch’s close ... Orthodoxy are those that have broken their communion with the Moscow Patriarchate, not least because ...

In Paraguay the Patriarch was received as head of state, and met president Cartes. Paraguay is very grateful to Russian officers contribution during the Chaco war. Russian Orthodox Patriarch ...

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 ...

In the course of my professional activities I have also spent some time with both Patriarch Kirill, when he was Russian Orthodoxy’s “foreign minister,” and more recently with his successor ...

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 ...

"Great Lent is a time for spiritual growth," the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill ... of the Sacraments of Confession and Communion. Observing 40 days of Great Lent means ...

Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople has ... all that serves unity," he said. The primate of the Russian Orthodox Church noted that Ukrainian authorities had tried to distance themselves ...

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy had a conversation with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew on ... the Verkhovna Rada supported a law banning the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) in Ukraine.

Pope Francis wrote a letter to Moscow Orthodox Patriarch Kirill calling on him ... In the letter - which was published on the website of the Russian Patriarchate, Mospat.ru - Francis stressed ...