Anonymous ID: d08092 March 5, 2022, 12:07 a.m. No.15787546   🗄️.is đź”—kun

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$DWAC Interesting angle on Russia-Ukraine in recent years. Wikipedia

 

Under Patriarch Kirill, the ROC continued to maintain close ties with the Kremlin enjoying the patronage of president Vladimir Putin, who has sought to mobilize Russian Orthodoxy both inside and outside Russia. Patriarch Kirill endorsed Putin's election in 2012, referring in February to Putin's tenure in the 2000s as "God's miracle." Putin's relationship with Patriarch Kirill has been deteriorating since 2014 due to the fact that the presidential administration had been misled by the Moscow Patriarchate as to the extent of support for pro-Russian uprising in eastern Ukraine.

 

In 2018, the Moscow Patriarchate's traditional rivalry with the Patriarchate of Constantinople—and Moscow's anger over the Constantinople patriarch's moves to grant independence to the Ukrainian church—led to the ROC's non-attendance of the Holy Great Council that had been prepared by all the Orthodox Churches for decades.