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Sep 13, 2024 · Kirill I (born November 20, 1946, Leningrad [now St. Petersburg], Russia) is the Russian Orthodox Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia from 2009. Gundyaev took the monastic name Kirill in 1969 while a seminarian. He graduated in 1970 from Leningrad Theological Academy, where he served as lecturer in dogmatic theology for one year.
On 14 March 1976, Archimandrite Kirill was consecrated Bishop of Vyborg, Vicar of the Leningrad diocese. On 2 September 1977, he was elevated to the rank of archbishop. From 26 December 1984, he was Archbishop of Smolensk and Vyazma. From 1986 – administrator of the parishes in the Kaliningrad Region.
patriarchia.ru. The Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus' (Russian: Патриарх Московский и всея Руси, romanized: Patriarch Moskovskij i vseja Rusi), also known as the Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia, is the title of the primate of the Russian Orthodox Church. It is often preceded by the honorific "His Holiness".
- Education. Work Under The Guidance of Metropolitan Nikodim
- External Church Work After Graduation from The Academy
- Service at The See of Smolensk and Kaliningrad
- Chairman of The Decr
- Cooperation with Local Orthodox Churches
- Inter-Christian Relations and Cooperation
- Patriarchal Enthronement
After finishing the secondary school 8th grade, V. Gundyaev worked from 1962 to 1965 in the Leningrad Comprehensive Geological Expedition of the North-West Geological Administration as a technical cartographer concurrently attending the secondary school. After finishing the school in 1965, Vladimir planned to enter the Department of Physics of the ...
In 1971, Metropolitan Nikodim charged Hieromonk Kirill with making a decision on his own concerning the Russian Orthodox Church’s joining SYNDESMOS - the World Fellowship of Orthodox Youth. SYNDESMOS was founded in 1953 on the initiative of Orthodox theologians and church leaders including Archpriests John Meyendorff and Alexander Schmemann and ini...
During Metropolitan Kirill’s service at the See of Smolensk and Kaliningrad, 166 parishes were opened (94 in Smolensk and 72 in Kaliningrad and its region), 52 Orthodox churches were restored and 71 churches were built. In 1989, a Smolensk Theological College was opened and in 1995 it was transformed into the Smolensk Theological Seminary. Since 19...
As the DECR chairman, he was engaged in legislative work as representative of the Russian Orthodox Church in commissions for developing the USSR law ‘On Freedom of Conscience and Religious Organizations’ of October 1, 1990, the RSFSR law ‘On Freedom of Religion’ of October 25, 1990 and the Federal Law of the Russian Federation ‘On Freedom of Consci...
Metropolitan Kirill put in much effort to the development of bilateral contacts of the Russian Orthodox Church with each of the Local Orthodox Churches. He was the first to represent the Russian Orthodox Church in SYNDESMOS - the World Fellowship of Orthodox Youth. From 1971 to 1977, he was a member of the SYNDESMOS Executive Committee. He attended...
In the 1990s, Metropolitan Kirill and the DECR developed a new strategy for building relations with the non-Orthodox world, which was adopted by the 2000 Bishops’ Jubilee Council. The task of Orthodox Christians is to restore the unity of the Universal Church on the basis of the intact truth, i.e. Orthodoxy. The Russian Orthodox Church’s dialogue w...
On December 5, 2008, Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Russia died at the age of 80, who had led the Russian Church for over 18 years. The election of Metropolitan Kirill. who occupied the 5th place among the permanent members of the Synod, as Locum Tenens was determined, among other things, by his work as chairman of the DECR, his personal supe...
May 26, 2022 · Patriarch Kirill is the leader of the Moscow-based church that asserts exclusive canonical jurisdiction over all Eastern Orthodox Christians that live in the erstwhile republics of the Soviet Union, apart from Georgia, and more recently Ukraine.
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May 29, 2022 · In 2006, TheMoscow News estimated Kirill's net worth at $4 billion. In 2012, the patriarch was photographed wearing a $30,000 wristwatch. In return for his support of the church, Putin can count ...
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May 21, 2022 · Published May 21, 2022 Updated May 22, 2022. As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine unfolded, Patriarch Kirill I, the leader of the Moscow-based Russian Orthodox Church, had an awkward Zoom meeting ...
