[sockmonkey]

The head of Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kiev Patriarchate Filaret met the former deputy director of the CIA Jack Devine and awarded him the order of Saint Andrew the First-Called for his help in creating the united church.

Devine is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Filaret previously awarded Sen John McCain the Order of St Vladimir First Class

[Berlin_Freeper]

... and the former Metropolitan of Kiev of the Russian Orthodox Church (until 1992; excommunicated in 1997).[8] On October 11, 2018, the Patriarchate of Constantinople restored him in church communion.[9]