The Moscow Patriarchate, Russian World and Ukraine
Church History and Politics (1989-2009)MARIANNA NAPOLITANO
Bologna Studies in Religious History
BRILL, Leiden, 2026
ISBN: 9789004539488
The volume offers a comprensive analysis of Church-State realtions in post-Sovietic Russia, with particular reference to external realtions of the Rusian Orthodox Church. The book investigates the impact od the appointment of Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad - now Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' - as head of the Moscow Patriarchate's Department for External Church Realtions (DECR), and his contribution to strengthening this branch of the Moscow Patriarchate.
It further provides and in-depth analysis of the ecclesiale crisis in Ukraine, the division of the churches, and the processo leading toward unification and the creation of a Ukrainian National Church, exploring he implications of this processo for the foreign policy of the Rusian Federation.
(Forthcoming in 2026)
MARIANNA NAPOLITANO, pH.D., is Junior Assistant Professor at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.
She is a member of the National Infrastructure on Religious Studies, the Fondazione per le Scienze Religiose, and Academic Assistant to UNESCO Chair on Religious Pluralismo and Peace hosted by Sapienza University of Rome.