Antichrist

===Eastern Orthodox===
Throughout history, various ecclesiastics of the Eastern Orthodox Church have identified the office of the Roman Catholic papacy with the antichrist.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://orthodoxethos.com/post/does-the-russian-orthodox-church-accept-the-mysteries-of-the-heretics|title=Does the Russian Orthodox Church Accept the "Mysteries" of the Heretics?|website=Orthodox Ethos|date=April 22, 2016|access-date=March 9, 2022}}</ref> [[Russian Orthodox Church|Russian Orthodox]] Metropolitan [[Anthony Khrapovitsky]], in explaining the necessity of rebaptism for Roman Catholics, Protestants and [[Nestorianism|Nestorians]], declared:<ref name="auto"/>
{{Cquote|It is clear that by this regulation the Church does not recognize in heretics and schismatics either the priesthood or the other mysteries, and considers them subject to ecclesiastical baptism in the nature of things ... the Church by receiving Latins into communion in the same way as Nestorians (Council of Trullo, 95) does not make any distinction between old heresies and the Latin one. I think that the Latins are considerably further from the Church and they are worse than Monophysites and Monophelites, because they created a second Christ, i.e., the antichrist in the person of the Pope, who is supposedly infallible...<ref name="auto"/>}}

In a [[Christmas in Russia|Christmas]] 2018 interview on Russian state television, [[Patriarch Kirill of Moscow]] warned that "The Antichrist is the person that will be at the head of the world wide web controlling all of humanity. That means that the structure itself poses a danger. There shouldn't be a single centre, at least not in the foreseeable future, if we don't want to bring on the apocalypse." He exhorted listeners not to "fall into slavery to what's in your hands"..."You should remain free inside and not fall under any addiction, not to alcohol, not to narcotics, not to gadgets."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/01/08/smartphones-paving-way-antichrist-says-russian-church-leader/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/01/08/smartphones-paving-way-antichrist-says-russian-church-leader/ |archive-date=2022-01-11 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Smartphones are paving way for the Antichrist, says head of Russian church|website=The Telegraph|date=8 January 2019}}{{cbignore}}</ref>