Patriarch Kirill of the ROC MP has laid out his case for challenging Patriarch Bartholemew of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Constantinople with an eye either to overthrowing the churchman considered primus inter pares among Orthodox or to setting up an alternative Orthodox world under Moscow.
Russia's War Against Ukraine
OP-ED
Paul Goble: Patriarch Kirill criticizes Ukrainian Orthodox Church
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I (R) and Metropolitan Epiphanius, the head of the independent Ukrainian Orthodox Church (2nd R), take part in at welcoming service at St. Michael's Cathedral in Kyiv on Aug. 21, 2021.
