Moscow’s Transfer Of Metropolitan Tikhon To Crimea Part Of Larger Russian Effort To Absorb Orthodox On Russian-Occupied Areas Of Ukraine – OpEd

The transfer of Metropolitan Tikhon from Pskov to Crimea reflects not only Patriarch Kirill’s desire to get Putin’s favorite hierarch farther from the center of power but also an effort by the Moscow Patriarchate to take control of all of Orthodoxy in Ukrainian areas under Russian occupation.

This process has been ongoing...