Vakhtang Kipshidze

religious

Vakhtang Kipshidze serves as Deputy Head of the Synodal Department for Relationships between the Church and Society and the Media within the Moscow Patriarchate. He has publicly supported sending relics of Saint Dmitry Donskoy to Ukraine's conflict zone, calling it a 'reasonable decision' to enable Orthodox servicemen to venerate them quickly. He has commented on religious events, church-state relations, and moral issues, including the role of faith and ethical concerns around AI and media narratives.

Events

Recent coverage

In the Russian Orthodox Church, they declared that no one in Ukraine cares about the killing of an UOC monk — Вести
Kipshidze stated that Ukrainian policy regarding the UOC has achieved its goals — Вести
Russian Orthodox Church: Murder of a monk in Ukraine is linked to campaign against the church — Ведомости
In the Russian Orthodox Church commented on the killing of a monk in the Kharkiv region — Коммерсантъ
It is impossible to win the fight against faith without destroying one's own humanity. The killing of a monk in Ukraine became the result... — ТАСС (Telegram)
Protodeacon Andrey Kordochkin «Echo»: Dmitry Donskoy became a participant in the «mobilization of the saints» — ЭХО / Новости
Putin visited the relics of Prince Dmitry Donskoy in the Arkhangelsky Cathedral of the Kremlin. TASS, citing a source in the Russian Orthodox Church, wrote that t... — Настоящее Время
In the Russian Orthodox Church, it is believed that the relics of Dmitry Donskoy should be sent to the SVO zone sooner — Ведомости
Found this summer the relics of Dmitry Donskoy are set to be sent to the SVO — Новая газета Европа
In the Russian Orthodox Church, the relics of Dmitry Donskoy were found and they want to send them to the front — Дождь
In the Russian Orthodox Church, the process of bringing the relics of Spiridon Trimifunt to Russia was called difficult — Вести
In the Russian Orthodox Church, they called for sending the relics of Dmitry Donskoy to the SVO zone sooner — Коммерсантъ
Russian Orthodox Church does not plan to hold special events with the relics of Dmitry Donskoy — Вести
In the Russian Orthodox Church, sending the relics of Dmitry Donskoy to the SVO was called a reasonable decision — Вечерняя Москва
Russian Orthodox Church: It is necessary to transport a fragment of the relics of Dmitry Donskoy to the SVO zone in the near future — Вести
In the Russian Orthodox Church, they spoke about their attitude towards the preservation of the relics of Dmitry Donskoy — Вести
Russian Orthodox Church: Transporting one of the relics of Dmitry Donskoy to the SVO zone is a reasonable decision — Вести
Russian Orthodox Church will determine list of churches where relics of Dmitry Donskoy will be displayed — Вести
Russian Orthodox Church: particles of relics of Dmitry Donskoy will be placed in several churches in Russia — Вести
Russian Orthodox Church notes pressure on Christianity in Ukraine is stronger than in the West — Вести