The US has a long history of interfering in the Orthodox Church

Ousting the Ecumenical Patriarch: the removal of Maximos V according to CIA records

KGB, CIA, and the Deconstruction of Orthodoxy

[06-13-1992] UKRAINE’S TOP CLERIC DEFROCKED

US State Dept Paid $25 Mil Bribe to Patriarch of Constantinople to Foment Religious Chaos in Ukraine (archived)

[11-23-2014] Pat. Bartholomew Meets Joe Biden (Again) (archived)

Autocephaly of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine

“Holy War”: Russia’s Orthodox Church cuts ties with Ecumenical Patriarchate

NEO-NAZI UKRAINE AND ITS ‘FAKE’ ORTHODOX CHURCH! (2019)