THE senior Russian Orthodox bishop who allegedly the target of a murder plot by two ethnic Ukrainian laymen has asked to meet ...

One morning in October of 2023, Miami police were called to remove a “squatter” who had, or so the ecclesiastical ...

Moscow (AFP) – Russia's FSB security service said Friday it had thwarted a Ukrainian-ordered plot to kill Tikhon Shevkunov, a senior bishop in the Russian Orthodox Church with close links to ...

Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill of Moscow ... After Lipke's episcopal consecration, Orthodox Bishop Nikodim (Chibisov), metropolitan of Novosibirsk and Berdsk, invited him to visit.

Two priests have been accused of plotting to assassinate a Russian bishop known to be Vladimir Putin ’s personal Orthodox confessor. The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) held clerics Denis ...

‘If the Lithuanian public clearly understood that the structure of the Moscow Patriarchate operates freely in Lithuania, there would probably be a great deal of indignation.’ The Russian ...

The pair were said to have been recruited by Ukraine to kill Bishop Tikhon Shev­kunov ... Pro-war Tikhon, the senior Russian Orthodox church figure in occupied Crimea, has likened Putin to ...

They now face terrorism charges which could lead to life in jail. Pro-war Tikhon, the senior Russian Orthodox church figure in occupied Crimea, has likened Putin to Russian emperor Peter the Great.

But they received approval from a bishop, known as the Metropolitan Leonty, from a U.S. Russian Orthodox group linked to the church in Russia. That group was supplanted by the OCA in 1970 after ...

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