Kirill Archives - Euromaidan Press

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Theologian: Russian Church goes full Nazi with “holy war” on Ukraine

Patriarch Kirill's "decree" blessing Russia's Ukraine invasion brims with "sacred mission" rhetoric from the times of Nazi aggression – yet church leaders worldwide remain deafeningly silent, says Cyril Hovorun

byAlya Shandra

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Moscow laying groundwork for alternative patriarchate in Muslim Turkey

The Moscow Patriarchate is taking its battle against the Universal Patriarchate over Ukrainian autocephaly to a new level:…

byPaul A. Goble

The head of the Soviet Communist party and state Leonid Brezhnev with hierarchs of the Russian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate then-Metropolitan Alexy II and Patriarch Pimen, and the head of the Moscow Choral Synagogue Rabbi Jakov Fishman at the reception celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Communist Revolution of 1917 on October 7, 1977 (Photo: Wikipedia)

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More fallout from Ukrainian autocephaly: Russians learn Moscow Orthodox hierarchs were KGB officers

Specialists on religion in the Soviet Union have known for decades that many of the most senior hierarchs…

byPaul A. Goble

Archbishop Job of Telmessos, Permanent Representative of the Patriarchate of Constantinople to the World Council of Churches (Photo: bbc.com)

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Constantinople: Moscow could be stripped of autocephaly, while Belarus could gain it

If Moscow continues to interfere with the march of Ukraine’s Orthodox to autocephaly, it could lose not only…

byPaul A. Goble

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Constantinople decision on Ukrainian Church truly has global consequences

Although the Universal Patriarch in Constantinople has not yet given the tomos of autocephaly to the Ukrainian Orthodox…

byPaul A. Goble

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Moscow having failed to block Ukrainian autocephaly now attempting to exploit it

The Kremlin and the Moscow Patriarchate remain totally opposed to autocephaly for the Ukrainian church, but in recognition…

byPaul A. Goble

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Constantinople could grant autocephaly to Belarusian Orthodox Church next, Gorbik says

Ukrainian Archpriest Sergey Gorbik says that Constantinople could grant autocephaly to the Belarusian Orthodox Church in the near…

byPaul A. Goble

Bartholomew, Archbishop of Constantinople-New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch (Image: Patriarchate.org)

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Constantinople moves to grant autocephaly to Ukrainian Church, outraging Moscow

Yesterday, the Ecumenical Patriarchate announced that it has appointed as its exarchs in Kyiv an archbishop from the…

byPaul A. Goble

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Three signs Moscow Patriarch Kirill knows he’s lost on Ukrainian autocephaly

The Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC MP) continues to assert that it will be able…

byPaul A. Goble

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A Ukrainian National Church — Ukraine’s hopes and Moscow’s traps

The letter that Patriarch Filaret, the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate (UOC-KP), sent…

byVitaly Portnikov