With their fratricidal war, Patriarch Kyrill and Vladimir Putin have likely lost the birthplace of Russian Christianity forever Russian Orthodoxy's Tragedy - The American Conservative ...

Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill in Havana, February 12, 2016. (Alejandro Ernesto/AFP/Getty) ... Russian Orthodoxy is the heir of a rich spiritual and theological tradition.

More recently, Bartholomew, the current Ecumenical Patriarch, has been within Orthodoxy a more liberalizing, Westernizing force; Kirill, the current Moscow Patriarch, has pushed back.

Pope Francis and Kirill, the Russian Orthodox patriarch of Moscow, ... It’s a big deal, in that the Bishop of Rome has never met before with the leader of Russian Orthodoxy (who, ...

"It is almost entirely about (Kirill) posturing and trying to present himself as the leader of Orthodoxy." Popes as far back as Paul VI have met with the Istanbul-based Ecumenical Patriarch, who ...

He has been formally sanctioned by several states, an astonishing development for the most important patriarch by population in Orthodoxy; some half of all Orthodox Christians are in Russia.

The Russian church hopes to reunite with the independent Ukrainian branch under a single patriarch in Moscow that would allow it to control the holiest sites of Orthodoxy in the Slavic world. By ...

Athenagoras I, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, and by virtue of that the spiritual leader of Orthodoxy, came from Istanbul.

The birth of a new Orthodox Church in Ukraine has widened the divisions between the ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople and the Russian Orthodox Church, pushing global Eastern Orthodoxy up to ...

Patriarch Bartholomew’s patriarchal and synodal encyclical was dated Feb. 21, Orthodoxy Sunday, when the Orthodox Church celebrates the defeat of the iconoclastic heresy.

In this handout photo released by Russian Orthodox Church Press Service, Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill, right, and other members of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church pray ...

HAVANA (AP) — Pope Francis landed in Cuba Friday for the first-ever papal meeting with the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, a historic development in the 1,000-year schism within ...