Serbian Patriarch ... subdeacons Dejan Nakić and Vladimir Jelić. At Sheremetyevo Airport, the guests were welcomed by the President of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow ...

The Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyivan Patriarchate effectively declared itself independent from Moscow in 1992 ... of Constantinople sent two personal envoys to the Ukraine, where they ...

Kirill's claimed jurisdiction as "Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus'" stretches beyond Russia to encompass territories previously controlled by the tsarist and Soviet empires, including Belarus, Estonia ...

The Vatican is sending its two senior ecumenical officials to Sunday’s inauguration ceremony in Moscow of Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill. Cardinal Walter Kasper, president of the Pontifical ...

However, the meeting between the pope and Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill of Moscow planned for June ... he felt was due out of a sense of his own personal responsibility. He said the visit ...

Pope Francis' meeting with Patriarch Kirill of ... Cold War suspicion - above all in Moscow - which was only added to by the Pope's own Slavic roots. This "personal conversation" between the ...