New Martyrs and Confessors of Russian Church is a group of saints of the Russian orthodox church martyred or persecuted after the October Revolution of 1917. Their synaxis is held annually at the end
Russian Orthodox clergy in Solovki prison camp, January 1923. Sitting (left to right): priest Alexy Shishkin, Archbishop Mitrophanes Grinyov, archbishop Hilarion Troitsky, мetropolitan Eugene Zyornov, archbishop Zachariah Lobov, archpriest Pavel Chehranov. Standing (left to right): archpriest Simeon Krasnov, archpriest Ilia Pirozhenko, priest Alexy Trifiliev, priest Vladimir Vologurin, archpriest Pyotr Falevich
Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow
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Patriarch Alexy II was the 15th Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus', the primate of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Alexy II in 1995
Alexy, in the Kremlin Cathedral of the Annunciation, presents Vladimir Putin with an icon of Saint Alexander Nevsky at the latter's presidential inauguration on 7 May 2000.
Modern fresco of the Donskoi Monastery, representing Alexy II bringing the relics of Patriarch Tikhon into the monastery.
Alexy II speaking to Orthodox believers in Pereslavl (1997)