Office Christianity
Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia
Patriarcha Moscuensis et totius Russiae la
Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church
- Dated 26 January 1589 CE (Old Style) – 22 October 1721 CE (Old Style)
- Also called Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus'
A seat,
and those
who held it.
Holders in order
Overview
From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.
Succession in office
Who held it, in order
A sequence of office-holders, not a family genealogy.
- 6 holders
- 1 gap
- 3 steps named in the records
- 1 undated
What this means
Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.
Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened
Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.
A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked.
Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.
Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.
Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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7th 1652 CE – 1658 CE Patriarch Nikon of Moscow 8th Patriarch of Moscow (1652–1666) -
Gap about 287 years with no holder recorded
1945 CE – 1970 CE Alexy I of Moscow Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus' (1877–1970) -
14th 1971 CE – 1990 CE Pimen I of Moscow Russian bishop (1910–1990) -
1990 CE – 2008 CE Patriarch Alexius II 15th Patriarch of Moscow and all the Rus', the primate of the Russian Orthodox Church (1929–2008) -
from 1 February 2009 CE Kirill bishop, priest, eastern Orthodox priest, eastern Orthodox bishop, patriarch
No dates recorded 1
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Dates unrecorded Tikhon of Moscow Patriarch of Moscow (1865-1925)
Chronology is not a full explanation
Why one holder followed another takes evidence beyond the order of their dates.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
1 statement on this record
- 1 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 1 of it cites only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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