Patriarch Kirill, spiritual leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, worked for the Soviet intelligence services during the Cold War, according to two Swiss daily newspapers which had access to the declassified archives of the Swiss federation.
Monsignor Kirill was in Geneva in the early 1970s to represent the Orthodox Patriarchate of Moscow to the World Council of Churches (WCC). ‘influence.
The KGB therefore tasks Agent Mikhailov – the Patriarch’s code name – with influencing the Ecumenical Council in favor of the Soviet regime, according to revelations from the federal archives that Swiss newspapers, Morning Sunday and the Sonntagszeitung, were able to consult. Objective: to obtain from the COE, an organization which brings together the Christian Churches of the whole world, that it moderates its attacks against the USSR and criticizes, on the contrary, the countries of the Western bloc, in the forefront of which the United States.
Fervent support for Putin and the invasion in Ukraine
Son and grandson of priests who died in the gulag, Kirill is a fervent support of Vladimir Putin and the invasion in Ukraine. A recognized theologian, he directed, when the wall fell, the external relations of the Moscow Patriarchate before becoming the spiritual head of the Orthodox Church since 2009.
His nephew succeeded him in Geneva and represents him on the Ecumenical Council. Quoted by Swiss dailies, he denies that Kirill was a KGB spy, “ even though he was under strict KGB control “. The family visibly appreciates Switzerland, the Patriarch himself has visited the Swiss federation no less than 43 times to satisfy, among other things, his ” passion for skiing “.
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