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CLASH OF THE PATRIARCHS

By Webmaster on April 10, 2024 Governance & Unity News, Governance Top Stories

A hard-line Russian bishop backed by the political might of the Kremlin could split the Orthodox Church in two.

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, right, the spiritual leader of the world’s Orthodox Christians, sits with Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, left, prior to their meeting at the Patriarchate in Constantinople, Friday, Aug. 31, 2018. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

By Robert F. Worth

In late August 2018, Patriarch Kirill, the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, flew from Moscow to Istanbul on an urgent mission. He brought with him an entourage—a dozen clerics, diplomats, and bodyguards—that made its way in a convoy to the Phanar, the Orthodox world’s equivalent of the Vatican, housed in a complex of buildings just off the Golden Horn waterway, on Istanbul’s European side.

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