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White House to meet clergy with ties to pro-war Russian Orthodox Church
by Laura Kelly – 11/17/25 2:25 PM ET
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CORRECTION: The head of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Porfirije, met with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Patriarch Kirill in Moscow in April. An earlier version of this story included incorrect information.
Lobbyists and clergy with ties to the Russian Orthodox Church, which has been a staunch backer of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine, are campaigning this week on Capitol Hill and meeting with the Trump administration.
The delegation is meeting with the White House Faith Office, a White House official confirmed to The Hill. In outreach emails to members of Congress, the delegation said meetings were also scheduled at the State Department. The delegation is raising awareness over what it says is Kyiv’s religious persecution against Orthodox Christians.
But Ukrainian officials, analysts and pro-Ukraine members of Congress argue Putin employs the Russian Orthodox Church at home and abroad as a key arm of the war effort against Ukraine — providing ideological justification to fight and strategic positioning to gather intelligence.
“The White House Faith Office will meet with a delegation of American representatives from the Orthodox church to discuss the persecution of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church,” a White House official said in a statement to The Hill.
“The Faith Office regularly meets with advocacy groups and religious leaders upon request to discuss issues related to faith in our country and around the world.”
Some House Republicans are requesting Attorney General Pam Bondi investigate whether the Russian Federation or its intelligence services have sought to recruit, leverage, influence or compromise U.S.-based Orthodox churches with ties to Moscow.
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“It has come to my attention that ROCOR [Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia] is actively seeking to expand its political influence in the United States, including through an event reportedly scheduled for November 18, 2025, aimed at lobbying Members of Congress and their staff,” read a draft letter addressed to Bondi led by Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.), which was shared with The Hill while additional House Republicans are signing on.
“This development raises legitimate concerns that ROCOR or other Russian Orthodox jurisdictions could serve as vehicles for intelligence collection or foreign influence operations directed at U.S. policymakers.”
Last week, Finland’s Security and Intelligence Service warned that Orthodox parishes in Finland operating under the Moscow patriarchate are connected to influence activities linked to the Russian state, but it added that the activity is not extensive.
Among the clergy lobbying Capitol Hill this week include representatives from at least three churches that hold ties with the Russian Orthodox Church. This includes the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, which in 2007 entered into “canonical unity” with the Russian Orthodox Church, preserving the outside churches’ independence but viewed as an “indissoluble part” of the Moscow patriarch.
The Orthodox Church in America, part of the delegation, maintains representation in Moscow.
Bishop Irinej of the Washington-New York and Eastern America Serbian Orthodox Church is also participating in the delegation. The head of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Porfirije, was in Moscow in April and met with Putin and Patriarch Kirill, a key Putin ally accused of being a veteran of the Soviet-era spy agency, the KGB.
Likewise, the Serbian Orthodox Church is being represented by Bishop Irinej, who recently met in April with Putin and Patriarch Kirill, a key Putin ally accused of being a veteran of the Soviet-era spy agency, the KGB.
The group said it is looking to discuss with the administration and members of Congress “escalating religious freedom violations being carried out against the Ukrainian Orthodox Church by the Ukrainian government.”
That narrative has found allies among President Trump’s MAGA base, including Vice President Vance and Tucker Carlson, the former Fox News host whose independent podcast garners hundreds of thousands to millions of views.
The delegation is being shepherded by Peter Flew, listed as a member of the legal team representing the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, and Catherine Whiteford, co-chair of the Young Republican National Federation, according to an email reviewed by The Hill.
Whiteford has been endorsed by Robert Amsterdam, who represents the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) in its U.S. campaign to emphasize Kyiv as the religious oppressor. Amsterdam was brought in as a lobbyist for the UOC by Vadim Novinsky, The Washington Post reported last year, citing him as a Russian Ukrainian tycoon with ties to the top leadership of the Russian Orthodox Church.
The Ukrainian Orthodox Church is an offshoot of the Russian Orthodox Church, headquartered in Moscow and under the leadership of Patriarch Kirill.
Patriarch Kirill has been criticized for blessing Putin’s decision to launch the full-scale invasion against Ukraine in February 2022 — ruling it a “holy war” — and backing a partial mobilization in September 2022, saying that dying in military service “washes away all sins.”
In August 2024, Ukraine banned the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC), a move that largely targeted the church’s offshoot in the country, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarch.
The move was criticized by the United Nations, the pope, and human rights organizations as an assault on religious freedom, and some analysts raised alarm that it was an overreach by Kyiv in its push to disrupt the ROC’s influence and operations in Ukraine.
While religious freedom advocates raise concern over Kyiv’s targeting of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Russia is designated a “country of particular concern” by the U.S. for engaging or tolerating “particularly severe violations of religious freedom.” Only 13 countries are designated as a such with China, North Korea, Iran and Cuba among them.
Ukraine’s secret service has reportedly issued more than 170 criminal proceedings against Ukraine Orthodox Church priests. The crimes largely focus on justifying Russia’s armed aggression against Ukraine, but more than two dozen cases allege collaboration with Moscow. Other charges reportedly include dissemination of communist and Nazi symbols, treason, and aiding Russia.
The move to ban the ROC in Ukraine followed an April 2024 resolution in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe encouraging member states to view the ROC as “in fact being used as an instrument of Russian influence and propaganda by the Kremlin regime” and is in no way related to the guarantees of religious freedom and freedom of expression.
In Sweden, concern was raised around the 2023 opening of a highly fortified Russian Orthodox Church less than 1,000 feet from a strategic airport that also hosts NATO training.
In Norway, concerns over the construction of a Russian Orthodox chapel on a small island hosting NATO radars has stalled the project.
In November 2024, the Ukrainian open-source intelligence education organization Molfar Intelligence Institute published a report analyzing Russian Orthodox Church outposts near critical and strategic infrastructure in at least five European countries.
This story was updated at 5:41 p.m.
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