The so called "patriarch" of MOscow has spoken out in favor of the Ukraine war and Putin, urging him to defend "holy" Russia. There is nothing "holy" about Russia, and he is no "patriarch" of anything other than a corrupt "church" totally loyal to Putin. I read that the war in Ukraine has all but destroyed both the Ukranian Orthodox Church (which has ties to Moscow), and the Russian Orthodox Church in Ukraine. Good riddance. The only legitimate Orthodox Churches are those loyal either to the Patriarch of Constantinople(Greek Orthodox) Patriarch Bartholomew, or the Coptic Orthodox Church of Egypt and Ethiopia and Eritrea. Any Orthodox Church with any connection to or loyalty to Moscow is an illegitimate Church. Any contact between the Roman Catholic Church and Russian Orthodox Church is illegitimate.