Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow
Religious Leader
1929 – 2008
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Who was Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow?
Patriarch Alexy II was the 15th Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus', the primate of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Elected Patriarch of Moscow eighteen months prior to the fall of the Soviet Union, he became the first Russian Patriarch of the post-Soviet period.
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- Born
- Feb 23, 1929
Tallinn - Also known as
- Alexey Mikhailovich Ridiger
- Alexy II of Moscow
- Patriarch Alexy II
- Patriarch Alexius II
- Patriarch Alexius II of Moscow
- Parents
- Spouses
- Vera Alekseeva
(1950/04/11 - 1951)
- Vera Alekseeva
- Ethnicity
- Baltic Germans
- Russians in the Baltic states
- Nationality
- Estonia
- Russia
- Profession
- Education
- Saint Petersburg Theological Seminary
( - 1953) - Leningrad Theological Seminary
(1947 - 1949)
- Saint Petersburg Theological Seminary
- Died
- Dec 5, 2008
Moscow - Resting place
- Yelokhovo Cathedral
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on July 23, 2013
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