The Metropolitan urged the Thessalonians to pray “for all those who are in arms fighting on the Eastern front against godless Bolshevism, and this gives us an opportunity to freely confess the Orthodox faith. Metropolitan of Florina Basil had expressed “deep gratitude to all civilized humanity to the leader of the German Reich.”
Metropolitan Irenaeus of Chalcis was called for God’s blessing on the German weapons. The Church of the Patriarchate of Constantinople in Berlin from 1941 to 1945, every evening, prayers were served for the “deliverance of Russia from the godless power.”
So did a lot of Buddhists in the Himalayas and elsewhere. Hitler flew in hundreds of Buddhists to Berlin in covert flights to preserve their religious texts and practices
In some sense bishops must be beyond secular government. When it appoints clergy, as happened in Russia and other states (Napoleon tried and failed to enact this in France), the result is disaster.