Biography of the Moscow Patriarchate

After graduating from the Theological Academy, he was left under her as a professor scholarship, a teacher of dogmatic theology. In the year, he became the personal secretary of the Metropolitan of the Leningrad and Novgorod Nicodemus, continuing to work at the Theological Academy. At the beginning of X, Father Cyril takes the first steps in the field of external church activity.

He became the first representative of the Moscow Patriarchate in the World Orthodox Youth Organization "Syndesmos". Then he became the rector of the Stavropiyal parish of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Geneva. For ten years, from year, Father Cyril served as the rector of the Leningrad Theological Academy and Seminary. In the year, he was appointed chairman of the Diocesan Council of the Leningrad Metropolis.

In the same year, he was elected a member of the Central and Executive Committee of the World Council of Churches, then he became part of the plenary commission of the All -Union forces of the All -Union Center as a representative of the Russian Orthodox Church. Father Cyril actively participated in the external activities of the Moscow Patriarchate, accompanied Patriarch Pimen on his trips abroad.

In the same year, he was appointed deputy Patriarchal Exarch of Western Europe and held this position within two years. Then, from for a year he was a manager of patriarchal parishes in Finland.

In the year, the decision of the Holy Synod received the title of Archbishop of Smolensk and Kaliningrad. In October, Cyril accompanied Patrick Pimen during an official visit to the Patriarch of Constantinople Dimitry 1. By a decision of the Holy Synod of November 14, Cyril was appointed chairman of the external church relations of the Moscow Patriarchate and became a permanent member of the Synod.

Largely thanks to Vladyka Kirill as the chairman of the department of external church ties, the Moscow Patriarchate strengthened its influence in the world. Over the years of his activity, Cyril participated in many international conferences and events, in inter -Orthodox and inter -religious organizations, as part of official delegations, he visited all the local Orthodox churches.

He took an active part in the process of reuniting the Russian Orthodox Church and the Russian Orthodox Church abroad and in establishing the relations of the Russian Church with the Catholic. In the year, on the initiative of the Metropolitan in Latin America, Russia days took place, the opening and consecration of the First Orthodox Church in Havana took place. During the time that Cyril headed the diocese, the parishes were opened, 49 were restored and 57 churches were built again, the spiritual seminaries, the school, and the gymnasium were opened.

In gg. Metropolitan Cyril is one of the few public representatives of the Church, the brightest speaker of the Russian Orthodox Church. Vladyka is known both in Russia and abroad due to its education, wide erudition and charm. Cyril pays special attention to the issue of dialogue of the church and society. He openly communicates with the press, his interviews, speeches in the media always find themselves in the focus of not only church, but also purely secular circles, since his reasoning is understandable to the worldly public.

Cyril is the author of more publications, reports, books; Since the year, the television program "Word of the shepherd" leads on Channel One. Metropolitan Kirill is an honorary doctor of theology of a number of foreign academies, an honorary doctor of political science, an honorary professor of a number of domestic universities, a real and honorary member of several Russian academies.

The merits of the hierarch were awarded the awards of the Russian Orthodox Church: the orders of the Holy Equal -to -the -Apostles Prince Vladimir P degree, the Monk Sergius of Radonezh 1 and the Section, the Holy Prince Daniel of the 1st degree, the Holy Alexy of the Moscow and degree. He was also awarded domestic state awards: orders of friendship, friendship of peoples, "for merits to the Fatherland" P, S degreies.

In, and gg. Metropolitan Cyril was awarded the International Lovery Prize of the World, which is awarded a public or church figure who has made a particularly significant contribution to the case of strengthening the world. Only 14 applicants for the Patriarchal throne on the patriarchal throne on the evening of January 27 in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior by the decision of the Local Council Metropolitan and Kaliningrad Cyril were elected the sixteenth Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' in the Cathedral of the Local Cathedral.