Kirill
Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus'
Kirill, Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus'
Church	Russian Orthodox Church
See	Moscow
Installed	1 February 2009
Term ended	Incumbent
Predecessor	Alexy II
Orders
Ordination	7 April 1969
Consecration	14 March 1976 by Nikodim (Rotov)
Personal details
Birth name	Vladimir Mikhailovich Gundyayev
Born	(1946-11-20) 20 November 1946 (age 78) Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Signature
Coat of arms

Kirill or Cyril (Russian: Кирилл, secular name Vladimir Mikhailovich Gundyayev, Russian: Владимир Михайлович Гундяев; born 20 November 1946) is a Russian Orthodox bishop. He became Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus' and Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church on 1 February 2009.

Before becoming Patriarch, Kirill was Archbishop (later Metropolitan) of Smolensk and Kaliningrad from 26 December 1984. He was also Chairman of the Russian Orthodox Church's Department for External Church Relations and a permanent member of the Holy Synod beginning in 1989.

Media related to Patriarch Kirill I at Wikimedia Commons

• Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad
• Patriarch Kirill in the social network VKontakte (official profile)

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