This time the ‘meddlesome priest’ is real

[Renauda]

Does it get any more vulgar?

"God put you in power so that you could perform a service of special importance and of great responsibility for the fate of the country and the people entrusted to your care," the patriarch said, joining a chorus of Russian officials congratulating Putin..

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/10/07/god-put-you-in-power-russian-orthodox-leader-tells-putin-on-70th-birthday-a79020

[Mik]

obsequious

ŏb-sē′kwē-əs, əb-

adjective

1. Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

2. Promptly obedient, or submissive, to the will of another; compliant; yielding to the desires of another; devoted.

3. Servilely or meanly attentive; compliant to excess; cringing; fawning.

[Renauda]

@Mik

The fact of the matter is that Kirill is where he is and what he is today because during Soviet times he was wholly beholden to the KGB. He was probably on its payroll. Putin was a counterintelligence Colonel in the KGB.

It makes sense that Kirill revers Putin, the Patriarch is in Putin’s pocket.

[Mik]

It does. It also shows has has no legitimate claim to his position, at least in any modern theological sense. If the powers that be ever kill Putin, he should be next.