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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'

Overview

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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
  1. 7th 1652 CE – 1658 CE Patriarch Nikon of Moscow 8th Patriarch of Moscow (1652–1666)
  2. Gap about 287 years with no holder recorded

    1945 CE – 1970 CE Alexy I of Moscow Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus' (1877–1970)
  3. 14th 1971 CE – 1990 CE Pimen I of Moscow Russian bishop (1910–1990)
  4. 1990 CE – 2008 CE Patriarch Alexius II 15th Patriarch of Moscow and all the Rus', the primate of the Russian Orthodox Church (1929–2008)
  5. from 1 February 2009 CE Kirill bishop, priest, eastern Orthodox priest, eastern Orthodox bishop, patriarch

No dates recorded 1

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