Tag: Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate

Moscow’s Pyrrhic Victory in Ukrainian Church Vote Weakens Patriarch Kirill

August 18, 2014

Staunton, August 17 – The pro-Russia faction of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate succeeded in electing Metropolitan Onufriy to be its new head, but that victory is likely to be a Pyrrhic one both for the UOC MP, which will now lose even more of its parishes, and for Patriarch Kirill who will […]