Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday congratulated Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and the Russian Orthodox Church on the 14th anniversary of his enthronement, a religious ceremony on becoming ...

MINSK, 1 February (BelTA) – Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko has congratulated Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill on the enthronement anniversary, BelTA learned from the press ...

On this day, exactly two years ago Metropolitan Kirill ascended the Moscow Patriarchal See to become the 16th Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church. The election of Patriarch took place several ...

Rabbi Arthur Schneier, the head of New York’s Park East Synagogue and The Appeal of Conscience Foundation, attended Patriarch Kirill’s enthronement and visited his residence on Tuesday ...

Then Russian president Dmitry Medvedev (R) congratulates Russian Orthodox Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia Kirill (L) in Christ the Savior cathedral in Moscow during his enthronement ceremony on ...

Hilarion nonetheless periodically returns to Moscow, and on Feb. 1, he concelebrated the Divine Liturgy with Kirill to mark the 17 th anniversary of the patriarch’s enthronement. He maintained ...

both attended the patriarch’s enthronement. Cardinal Kasper told Vatican Radio that the Holy See has “known Kirill for many years” and added that he “has a firm stance, but with him ...

ISTANBUL (RNS) — A tense election in the Bulgarian Orthodox Church on Sunday (June 30) ended with the enthronement of ... closer ties to Moscow and Patriarch Kirill strengthening his influence ...

When Patriarch Kirill sat down with Russian Justice Minister Alexander Konovalov he might not have realised the meeting would embroil him in controversy. His attire was typical of a man of the cloth.

TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin has held a meeting with Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia at the Kremlin on the 15th anniversary of his enthronement as primate of the Russian ...