Patriarch Alexy II Of Moscow
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 16 years ago |
Born | Tallinn |
Estonia | |
Died | Peredelkino |
Russia | |
Spouse | Vera Alekseeva |
Place of burial | Yelokhovo Cathedral, Moscow, Russia |
Successor | Patriarch Kirill of Moscow |
Job | Patriarch |
Priest | |
Monk | |
Education | Saint Petersburg Theological Academy |
Leningrad Theological Seminary | |
Sankt-Peterburgskaya Dukhovnaya Akademiya | |
Awards | Order For Merit to the Fatherland |
Order of the Red Banner of Labour | |
Order of Friendship of Peoples | |
Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana | |
Order of the Three Stars | |
National Order of the Cedar | |
Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas | |
State Prize of the Russian Federation for Humanitarian Work | |
Date of birth | February 23,1929 |
Zodiac sign | Pisces |
Full name | Alexey Mikhailovich Ridiger |
Buried | Yelokhovo Cathedral |
Parents | Mikhail Ridiger |
Yelena Iosifovna Pisareva | |
Church | Russian Orthodox Church |
Date of died | December 5,2008 |
Date of Reg. | |
Date of Upd. | |
ID | 637954 |
Patriarch Alexy II Of Moscow Life story
Patriarch Alexy II was the 15th Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus', the primate of the Russian Orthodox Church. Elected Patriarch of Moscow in 1990, eighteen months before the dissolution of the Soviet Union, he became the first Russian Patriarch of the post-Soviet period.