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)
Patriarch Kirill of Moscow
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Kirill or Cyril is a Russian Orthodox bishop. He became Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus' and Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church on 1 February 2009.
Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow
…and all Rus' Alexy II in 1995 Church Russian Orthodox Church See Moscow Installed 10 June 1990 Term ended 5 December 2008 Predecessor Pimen I Successor Kirill Orders Ordination 17 April 1950 Consecration 3 September 1961 by Nikodim of Leningrad Personal details Born Aleksei Rüdiger 23 February 1929 Tallinn…
Kirill in 2025
Archbishop Kirill at a conference on nuclear weapons and disarmament in Amsterdam in 1981
Vladimir Putin, Metropolitan Kirill and Xenia Sheremeteva-Yusupova, October 2001
Kirill being presented with the patriarchal koukoulion during his enthronement