In 1971 he was appointed representative of the Moscow Patriarchate at the World Coun… The Church of ‘Patriarch’ Kirill Unveiled Lucas Janusckiewicz Coletta. A photo of him wearing a an expensive Rolex watch was Photoshopped, getting rid of the watch, but easily noticeable nonetheless. VCh-P22 / 38 I authorize the production of customs clearance of tobacco products in accordance with the established procedure with payment of only the excise duty received in the customs territory before 01.01.97, in accordance with the decision of the above-mentioned Commission. Clergymen should not indulge in social media at the expense of liturgical and parish activities. All known references to Patriarch Kirill (KGB codename Mikhailov) in publicly-available KGB materials Not to cut too fine a point, Francis is a free agent while Kirill is a KGB agent, as any reader of The Mitrokhin Archives will know. In 1975, the KGB was able to infiltrate Kirill into the Central Committee of the WCC — a position he held until he was “elected” patriarch of Russia, in 2009. Kirill is a known KGB/FSB agent code named "Mikhailov". After 1996, Kirill’s most profitable business was the export of oil through the MES, which was exempted from customs duties at the request of Alexy II. Cyril does not like living there: he is worried about the nearby railway. His predecessor, Patriarch Alexy, traveled to the United States to speak to the Park East synagogue in New York City shortly after the fall of the Soviet Union removed restrictions on the church. According to Kaliningrad journalists, Metropolitan Kirill, as the ruling bishop of the Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate in the Kaliningrad region, participated in an automobile joint venture in Kaliningrad. The value of the assets controlled by Metropolitan Kirill was estimated in this work at $ 1.5 billion. Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister Valeri Simeonov called Russian Patriarch Kirill of Moscow a “KGB agent” and “Russia’s cigarette metropolitan”, Radio Liberty writes. Due to the closed nature of this information, it is now difficult to understand whether Kirill continues to participate in the oil business, but there is one very eloquent fact. About how the High Priest of the Putin Reich, Patriarch Kirill (he is already a KGB agent Mikhailov) amassed his billions of dollars in speculation in tobacco, alcohol, and oil (exempted from taxes and excise taxes) in the dashing 1990s, how he, the head of the bandit empire of the Russian Orthodox Church, eliminated its competitors, many have already written. Patriarch Alexy likewise was a long-time agent of Russia's intelligence services code named "Drozdov" (blackbird): KGB material in the Estonian archives leaves no doubt about the patriarch’s connections with the KGB. As a KGB agent and a leader of a KGB organization, Kirill is a big figure in the world of espionage. No one knows for sure. Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill in Havana, February 12, 2016. According to Portal-Credo.Ru, in 2000, information was made public about Metropolitan Kirill’s attempts to enter the market of marine biological resources (caviar, crabs, seafood) – the relevant government structures allocated to the company established by the hierarch (Region JSC) quotas for catching Kamchatka crab and shrimp (total volume – more than 4 thousand tons). Klaus Schwab of the decoy ‘Western NWO’/’Great Reset’ infamy: “Klaus Schwab, was having breakfast with Rabbi Arthur Schneier at his Park East Synagogue in New York when the two jets struck the World Trade Center.”, https://www.jta.org/2002/02/05/lifestyle/religion-has-role-at-economic-forum, FEBRUARY 4, 2009: New Russian patriarch reaches out to Jews. Head of the Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill leads the traditional Orthodox Christmas Eve mass at Moscow’s Christ the Saviour Cathedral on Wednesday, January 6. He still held those positions when he was elected patriarch. In 1977, he became an archbishop. But let us return to the “dashing years”, when “the curvature of our history” arose. And here is a letter from the State Customs Committee of the Russian Federation to the Moscow Customs Administration dated February 8, 1997, concerning “church” cigarettes: “In connection with the appeal of the Commission on International Humanitarian and Technical Assistance under the Government of the Russian Federation and the decision of the Prime Minister of January 29, 1997, No. Inside information from a former head of the Romanian Intelligence Service, Metropolitan Nikodin at a WCC meeting; in 1972 he was elected its president, Arch. Kirill, who was the Metropolitan of Smolensk, succeeds Alexei II who died in December after 18 years as head of the Russian Church. None of his publications was officially refuted. Cyril himself tried to justify his participation in this business: “The people who were doing this did not know what to do: burn these cigarettes or send them back? Since then, Patriarch Kirill, who served as the church’s interfaith and international liaison, has visited New York multiple times. My friend, who isn’t keen on “conspiracy theories” nonetheless knew about this hypocrisy of the Russian Orthodox, especially their leaders. A year later, under the Government of the Russian Federation and at the DECR MP, two “parallel” commissions on humanitarian aid appeared: the first one decided what kind of aid could be exempted from taxes and excise taxes, and the second one imported this aid through the church line and sold it to commercial structures. Because Patriarch Kirill is of central importance to the myth of Putin as the Saul-to-Paul, Christian persecutor-to-Christian champion, it behooves us to more closely examine the man. But back to the Danilov Monastery. Highlighting vibrant ties between the Russian Orthodox Church and the intelligence community, Patriarch Kirill oversaw the laying of the cornerstone for a new church at … … In the course of the criminal war for these cigarettes, in particular, the assistant to the deputy Zhirinovsky, a certain Zen, was killed. ‘Russian Orthodox’ KGB patriarch Kirill says Muslims worship same god as Christians Posted on June 29, 2019 MOSCOW, RUSSIA – MAY 24, 2019: Gennady Zyuganov (L), Chairman of the Russian Federation Communist Party (KPRF), congratulates Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia on his name day, Saints Cyril and Methodius Day. Is Patriarch Kirill a threat to our national interests here at home In response, Deputy Prime Minister of Bulgaria Valeri Simeonov said in an interview with public broadcaster that Patriarch Kirill, who is known as a KGB agent and ‘cigarette Metropolitan of Russia’, had no right to lecture Bulgaria about the right way of things. A few days before the start of the U.S. military operation against Saddam Hussein, Kirill’s deputy, Bishop Feofan (Ashurkov), flew to Iraq. In addition to the villa in Switzerland, the Tobacco Skiing Patriarch has palaces in Peredelkino, in the Danilov Monastery, in Gelendzhik, next to Putin’s palace, and a penthouse with a terrace in the House on the Embankment—overlooking the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. There are also patriarchal residences in all more or less large monasteries in Russia. It was hilarious to see efforts made to make Kirill not so rich as he was really. Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia . Patriarch Kirill, who was elected at a session in Moscow last week and enthroned Sunday, has ties to the Jewish world going back decades. Yakunin says that he first came across Alexiy, Kirill’s predecessor as Russian patriarch, through a close friend who knew him from his time heading the KGB’s Leningrad directorate. Stream info. In 1993, with the participation of the Moscow Patriarchate (Russian Orthodox Church), the Nika financial and trade group emerged, and Archpriest Vladimir Veriga, the commercial director of the Department for External Church Relations (DECR MP), headed by Kirill, became its vice-president. Restream to Facebook, YouTube, Periscope, RTMP 1080p, TVU. Eight years ago, it was a $39,000 watch -- and a doctored photograph -- that got the head of the Russian Orthodox Church in trouble. Both the luxurious corteges of Patriarch Kirill and the security services from the FSO, which he uses, have become the talk of the town. His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia sent condolences to the President of the Lebanese Republic, Mr. Michel Aoun, and to His Beatitude Patriarch John X of the Great Antioch and All the East over the death of people in the explosion at Beirut’s port. Symbolic of that is the fact that Kirill’s greatest enemy, “Patriarch” Philaret (Denisenko) of Kiev, is a former KGB agent and colleague in that ultra-evil organization with Kirill. We turned to the government, and it made a decision: to recognize this as a humanitarian cargo and provide an opportunity to implement it.” Government representatives categorically denied this information, after which Patriarch Alexy II liquidated the DECR MP commission and created a new ROC MP Commission on humanitarian aid, headed by Bishop Alexy (Frolov). Two years later, the journalists of Moskovskiye Novosti tried to count the assets of the head of the Church Foreign Ministry and came to the conclusion that they already amount to $ 4 billion. Gundyaev (Patriarch Kirill) was appointed in 1992-1994. T he new Russian Patriarch, Kirill, formerly Kirill Gundiaiev, Metropolitan of Smolensk and Kaliningrad, was enthroned in Moscow on Sunday. This goes to show why the Pope’s attending the Havana love-in with the Patriarch was so ill-advised. to Russian Schismatics, Vatican Promotes a Schismatic-Catholic Consecration. ”. MOSCOW (JTA) — The newly elected head of the Russian Orthodox Church reached out to Jewish leaders. Kirill seeks to keep up with the top officials of the state in this matter. True, we must pay tribute to Kirill: for official visits he charters the planes of the “Transaero” company, and uses his personal fleet only for personal purposes. Since 1978, he has been the manager of the Patriarch's parishes in Finland. Patriarch Alexy likewise was a long-time agent of Russia's intelligence services code named "Drozdov" (blackbird): KGB material in the Estonian archives leaves no doubt about the patriarch’s connections with the KGB. When the bells at Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow announced that a new patriarch had been elected, Metropolitan Kirill, aka “MIKHAYLOV,” proved to be the winner. It happened the day after Kirill pompously broadcast live on the main Ukrainian TV channels: “It is very important to learn Christian asceticism … Asceticism is the ability to regulate one’s consumption … This is a person’s victory over lust, over passions, over instinct. With respect to his actions, Kirill has maintained extremely close relations with Russia’s security agencies. “This man has not descended from heaven, he is not a messenger of Jesus Christ. The company’s annual turnover was about $2 billion in 1997. “He is not an orthodox cleric. After the head of Putin’s headquarters, Govorukhin, uttered wonderful, highly spiritual words that under Putin, corruption in Russia has finally acquired civilized forms, it no longer seems strange that Patriarch Kirill welcomes the outflow of capital from Russia (after all, his own savings are by no means stored at home) … “The fact,” said Kirill to Putin, “that today in Spain, when it is one of the most prosperous countries, is being massively sold by the Spaniards and bought by Russians in large quantities, is a very good signal to the whole world. 11 . Patriarch Kirill endorsed Putin's election in 2012, referring in February to Putin's tenure in the 2000s as "God′s miracle." As Kirill prophesies, “Sergianism” (the policy of complete subordination of the Church to power), about which the Chekist Putin spoke so warmly in his speech, again demonstrates its advantages over Christian confession and martyrdom. In 1984, he became Archbishop of Smolensk and Vyazma. So, in fact, since then a new title has been assigned to Metropolitan Kirill—”Tobacco” (however, now he is no longer titled like that). In Ukraine, Cyril’s half-kilometer motorcade completely shocked local residents: even the president travels much more modestly in a neighboring country. He used to have a lot of international trips. It even gives a specific date for his recruitment: February 28, 1958. T he annals of sycophancy are, alas, replete with examples of churchmen toadying to political power. From 1974 to 1984 he was the Rectorof the Leningrad Spiritual Academy and Seminary. As the Primate of the Russian Orthodox … Mikhail V. Gundyaev, died in 1974. And according to The New Times, in 2002, Metropolitan Kirill bought a penthouse in the “House on the Embankment” overlooking the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. Exposing the Judeo-masonic-Bolshevist conspiracy, By Lord Dreadnought Therefore, the current patriarch ordered to redecorate the palace in the Danilov Monastery, which did not look poor before. from 1989 to 2009. This caused serious damage to the “tobacco kings” of that time, who had to pay duties and excise taxes and therefore lost in the competition with the DECR MP—it is believed that they “ordered” an information campaign to expose Kirill’s business. In January 2009, Vladimir Mikhailovich Gundyayev is a Russian Orthodox bishop of Finno-Ugrik origin, better known… Like his predecessor and like the two other leading candidates for patriarch he defeated, Kirill has a long history of working with the KGB. His father, Rev. And it is important that both rich and poor possess this quality.”. In 1976 Kirill was consecrated Bishop of Vyborg. Kirill was represented at MES by Bishop Victor (Pyankov), who now lives as a private citizen in the United States. Under Patriarch Kirill, the ROC continued to maintain close ties with the Kremlin enjoying the patronage of president Vladimir Putin, who has sought to mobilize Russian Orthodoxy both inside and outside Russia. PATRIARCH KIRILL: KGB AGENT, BILLIONNAIRE, AND ORTHODOX "HAWK" He is the chairman of the Department of External Church Relations (OVTsS) of the Moscow Patriarchate, permanent member of the Holy Synod, Metropolitan of Smolensk and Kaliningrad. He cannot claim a religious exemption to the authority of the CIA. In Soviet times, Patriarch Cyril was a representative of Russian Orthodoxal Church in the World Council of churches. In 1975, the KGB infiltrated Kirill into the Central Committee of the WCC, which had become a Kremlin pawn. Through this channel, in 1996 alone, the DECR MP imported about 8 billion cigarettes into the country (data from the government commission on humanitarian aid). In Moscow, when the patriarch rides, all the streets along his route are blocked, which naturally causes massive indignation of car owners. The start of the business of V.M. Honourary and full member of … Many Westerners know little about the new Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Father Kirill. Translated from the Russian As in the case with Putin, the patriarch’s palace caused the indignation of local ecologists in the first place: it was built on the territory of the reserve, many trees listed in the Red Book were cut down during construction, and the territory of the palace blocked access to the sea for local residents. A cleric should not turn into a personal growth coach or a psychologist, said His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia at the annual Diocesan meeting of Moscow, held in a video conference format on December 24, 2020, reports Ria.ru. https://www.jta.org/2009/02/04/global/new-russian-patriarch-reaches-out-to-jews, Alex Jones Dossier – controlled opposition extraordinaire, The Soviet ‘Trust’ Model for Infiltration & Manipulation, « Soviet system a copy of the Jewish Kahal, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-17622820, https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2020/02/06/russian-orthodox-leader-seen-wearing-16000-watch-open-media-a69191, E. Michael Jones is a KGB asset and guilty of immeasurable treason against the USA/West, Russian Orthodox Church’s KGB patriarch got rich dabbling in tobacco, oil, and alcohol following ‘perestroika’. In addition to the aforementioned Nika fund, DECR MP was then the founder of the commercial bank Peresvet, JSC International Economic Cooperation (MES), JSC Free People’s Television (SNT), and a number of other structures. The man has clearly shown an interest in expanding his power base far beyond the borders of Russia. Russian Patriarch 'was KGB spy' James Meek in Tallinn on a secret document that may prove Alexy II's role as a Soviet agent. He is agent Mikhailov, a second-rate Soviet KGB agent,” the Deputy Prime Minister remarked. In 1991, he became Metropolitan bishop. Now it is customary to call him “Skiing” – with the light hand of Orthodox bloggers who drew attention to the enormous importance in the life and work of Kirill of his hobby for skiing (this hobby is served by a villa in Switzerland and a private jet, and on Krasnaya Polyana it helps to consolidate informal relations with strong of this world). It is characteristic that, even after becoming patriarch, Cyril did not appoint a diocesan bishop to the Kaliningrad see, leaving it under his direct control. According to Bychkov, when Kirill decided to leave this business, more than $50 million worth of “church” cigarettes remained in customs warehouses. Patriarch Kirill and Mr. Putin by George Weigel 4 . Presumably, the KGB/FSB considered him to be in a better position to carry out its tasks abroad, where he had directed his efforts during most of his professional life. His permanent residence was a newly-built palace in Peredelkino, for the sake of which several houses of local residents were demolished. Incidentally, this is “the only apartment in Moscow, registered specifically to the metropolitan by his secular surname Gundyaev, about which there is a corresponding entry in the cadastral register.”, Another attribute of this life, which has become the subject of widespread discussion, is a Breguet watch worth about 30 thousand euros, which Ukrainian journalists filmed on the left hand of the patriarch next to the monastic rosary. as chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations. PATRIARCH KIRILL: KGB AGENT, BILLIONNAIRE, AND ORTHODOX "HAWK" He is the chairman of the Department of External Church Relations (OVTsS) of the Moscow Patriarchate, permanent member of the Holy Synod, Metropolitan of Smolensk and Kaliningrad. The phrase, albeit confusing, is understandable that, from a Christian point of view, we must identify the “beautiful life” of the nouveau riche abroad with the glory and wealth of our country. рі́ллъ, secular name Vladimir Mikhailovich Gundyayev, Russian: Владимир Михайлович Гундяев; born 20 November 1946) is a Russian Orthodox bishop.He became Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus' and Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church on 1 February 2009. The most extensive dossier on this business was compiled by Doctor of Historical Sciences Sergei Bychkov, who published more than a dozen articles, mainly on the tobacco business of the future patriarch. Honourary and full member of … About how the High Priest of the Putin Reich, Patriarch Kirill (he is already a KGB agent Mikhailov) amassed his billions of dollars in speculation in tobacco, alcohol, and oil (exempted from taxes and excise taxes) in the dashing 1990s, how he, the head of the bandit empire of the Russian Orthodox Church, eliminated its competitors, many have already written. A separate and almost inexhaustible topic is the palaces and residences of the patriarch. By the time Putin joined the KGB in 1975, the future Patriarch had already graduated from the Leningrad Seminary and taken the name Father Kirill. In many respects Kirill admitted that the facts collected by Bychkov were true. Slipyj spent 18 years in a Soviet prison thanks to the betrayal of 'patriarch' Alexis, Kirill meeting with Popes to promote Communism, The Church of ‘Patriarch’ Kirill Unveiled - I, Francis & Kirill in Havana: Worrying Political Aspects, Ukrainians Feel ‘Betrayed’ by the Francis-Kirill Declaration, The Hand-Over of the Icon of Kazan May 27, 2016 Anno Domini. To which the patriarch can hardly strive so much, whose earthly life is protected by the FSO officers. The construction of the Patriarchal Palace in Gelendzhik, next to the legendary “Putin’s palace” in Praskoveevka, was not without scandals. His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia (secular name Vladimir M. Gundyaev) was born on November 20, 1946, in Leningrad. A country that is poor, that is in crisis, cannot afford what rich countries do not allow today. But the gradual political liberation of Ukraine from the Soviet Union and Putin’s Neo-Soviet Russian Federation since 1991 has turned the tables on Moscow. Here in the United States, we’ve seen too much of that among certain evangelical leaders recently. In 1989, the KGB appointed him chairman of the Russian patriarchate’s foreign relations as well. My mistake: it was a Breguet watch: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-17622820, Kirill did it again in 2018, this time wearing a $16,000 watch: https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2020/02/06/russian-orthodox-leader-seen-wearing-16000-watch-open-media-a69191, The Jew in the above picture, giving the apple to Kirill is Rabbi Arthur Schneier, 1: Rabbi Arthur Schneier & Rebbe Schneerson, http://thelivingarchive.org/search?commit=GO&photo_size=&search%5Bquery%5D=Schneier&search%5Bsort%5D=date&utf8=%E2%9C%93, 2: Rabbi Schneier at his synagogue with Henry Kissinger, http://shturem.net/index.php?mod=print§ion=news&id=12832. 18. Thus, most of the tax-exempt aid was distributed through the regular distribution network, at normal market prices. It even gives a specific date for his recruitment: February 28, 1958. Fri 12 Feb 1999 12.16 EST. In 2004, Nikolai Mitrokhin, a research fellow at the Center for Shadow Economy Research at the Russian State Humanitarian University, published a monograph on the shadow economic activity of the ROC MP. The title was changed to Archbishop of Smolensk and Kaliningrad in 1989. Orthodox Christians celebrate Christmas in accordance with the Julian calendar on January 7. (Alejandro Ernesto/AFP/Getty) ... a dying society ruled by a kleptocratic mafia composed primarily of ex – KGB officers. The piquancy of Kirill’s tobacco business is given by the fact that in Orthodoxy, smoking is considered a sin: it is actually detrimental to human health and life. Kirill is a known KGB/FSB agent code named "Mikhailov". Background. “. 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