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.

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, ...

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.

Patriarch Kirill speaks during the Russia-Africa Summit in St. Petersburg, Russia, July 27, ... Orthodoxy has unofficially succeeded Marxism-Leninism as a kind of state ideology, ...

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

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 ...

Orthodoxy in Greece has mixed feelings about the Patriarch. Rome-hating Archbishop Chrysostomos of Athens deplored Athenagoras’ Holy Land visit as “hasty.” ...

The Western trend of gender reassignment is a “sign of apocalypses,” Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, told Russian state news agency TASS in an interview broadcast on ...

Bulgarian Patriarch Neophyte leads Palm Sunday liturgy at Alexander Newsky Cathedral in Sofia, Bulgaria, on April 12, 2020. Patriarch Neophyte of Bulgaria, who was the first elected head of the ...

In turn, in world Orthodoxy, Patriarch Bartholomew is criticized for the fact that his interference in Ukrainian affairs not only did not solve “the most important problem” — the split of Ukrainian ...

Updated at 2:00 p.m. ET on May 9, 2024. In late August of 2018, Patriarch Kirill, the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, flew from Moscow to Istanbul on an urgent mission. He brought with him ...