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Heresy. the orthodox church is decentralized with 15 branches, consta constantinople, bartholomew, has been openly critical of him, saying he should not have even identified so much with putin and even called russias war sacred. orthodoxcy doesnt support war violence or terrorism. joining me is an associate professor of slovakia and ukrainian studies at the university of cambridge. thank you so much for being here. ive often heard kirill described in similar terms to the pope. thats not accurate...

Christianity, is that in eastern christianity, decisions are made by a council of patriarchs. and there are more or less national or regional churches. so, for example, you have the greek orthodox church, the romanian orthodox church. the ukrainian orthodox church. the russian orthodox church and the sort of equals among equals, the ecumenical pate arc, the former of constantinople, now the city of istanbul. >> the parishes from ukraine, are they taking direction from kirill, in moscow, or from ...

Constantinople. so to bartholomew. >> right, so is the motivation, i understand what youre saying hey, dont give this guy too much attention, but hes playing an important role as we speak, is his motivation a land grab like putin? putin wants ukraine. does he similarly want that territory back to the church? >> yes. so kirill has -- what were dealing with is a dying empire where we have the leader putin in close association with the church, right? theres almost no separation of church and state,...