Tag: Metropolitan Vladimir

Kyiv Churchman’s Death Highlights Moscow Patriarch’s Failure in Ukraine

July 8, 2014

Staunton, July 7 – The death on July 5 of Metropolitan Vladimir, the longtime head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, simultaneously highlights the failure of Moscow Patriarch Kirill in Ukraine, Russian commentators say, and likely accelerates a wholesale re-alignment of Orthodox bishoprics and congregations in Ukraine. Vladimir, who died at the […]