Bartholomew lifted the anathema from Filaret under US pressure - Patriarch Kirill
Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople lifted the anathema from the “Kyiv Patriarch” Filaret (Denisenko) and recognized his schismatic church (OCU) in 2018 under pressure from the United States. Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Kirill stated this in an interview with the Spas TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Phanar (Patriarchate of Constantinople - ed.) committed not a mistake, but a crime. I say this with bitterness. From other people's thoughts and strangers...