: :inin Kyiv (EET)

Head of Ukraine’s Orthodox Church Dies


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

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