Looks at the controversy surrounding Metropolitan Filaret of Kiev, the now-disputed head of the Russian Orthodox Church in Ukraine. Charges that he actively collaborated with the former Soviet regime and violated his monastic vow...
The exception to this would be the Church of the Ukraine, which became affiliated with Catholicism during the long period of Lithuanian and Polish rule. Otherwise, the religion of Francia would be Catholicism until the Reformation. With the Southern Slavic languages, the cultural division cuts ...
Political rivalries in the region caused strain in the Church as every contender jockeyed for the spiritual and ideological support of the local clergy and its leaders. Even the title of the metropolitan of Kyiv was disputed between several pretenders and deputies fulfilling the functions of locum ...