Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
TweetPatriarch Kirill of Moscow
primate of the Russian Orthodox Church
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Place of Birth: Saint Petersburg
About Patriarch Kirill of Moscow
- Kirill or Cyril (Russian: ??????, Church Slavonic: ????´???? ??????´??? ????´???, secular name Vladimir Mikhailovich Gundyayev, Russian: ???????? ?????????? ???????; born 20 November 1946) is a Russian Orthodox bishop.
- He became Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus' and Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church on 1 February 2009. Prior to becoming Patriarch, Kirill was Archbishop (later Metropolitan) of Smolensk and Kaliningrad beginning on 26 December 1984, and also Chairman of the Russian Orthodox Church's Department for External Church Relations and a permanent member of the Holy Synod beginning in 1989. In cultural and social affairs the Church under Kirill has collaborated closely with the Russian state under President Vladimir Putin.
- Patriarch Kirill has backed the expansion of Russian power into Crimea and eastern Ukraine.
- During the Ukrainian Orthodox Church autocephaly controversy, Patriarch Kirill was the presiding chairman of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church when the decision was made to break Eucharistic communion with the Ecumenical Patriarchate on 15 October 2018.
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