The head of Ukraine’s Orthodox Church under the Moscow patriarchate died on Saturday, the patriarchate said on its website on Saturday.
The Moscow patriarchate has echoed Russian President
Vladimir Putin’s rhetoric on the Ukraine crisis, a move that may
alienate the church in Ukraine, analysts have said.
“On July 5, 2014, the primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox
Church, his beatitude Metropolitan of Kyiv Volodymyr, went to the Lord,” a statement on the website said.
Putin, who has chartered a more socially conservative course
in his third term as president, has strengthened ties with the
Russian Orthodox Church and boosted its profile across Russia.
The Ukrainian Orthodox Church currently under …read more
Source: Voice of America
