ROC Kirill Biography

In the city of mother, Raisa Vladimirovna Gundyaeva, taught German at school. Grandfather, priest Vasily Stepanovich Gundyaev, was repeatedly subjected to repression from the Soviet regime: he spent more than 18 years in camps, in particular, in the x. The elder brother Nikolai was Archpriest, an honorary rector of the Transfiguration Cathedral in St. Petersburg. Younger sister Elena Rod.

Education, a degree after the eighth grade of secondary school, Vladimir Gundyaev entered the Leningrad complex geological expedition of the North-Western Geological Administration, where in the GG. He combined the work with training in high school. Candidate of theology. Cut into monasticism, teaching on April 3 in the city. At the same time, he was the personal secretary of the Metropolitan of the Leningrad and Novgorod Nicodemus, as well as a classroom mentor of the 1st class of the Leningrad Theological Seminary.

Then, in gg. Since December, simultaneously in the cities. Activities in the dignity of a bishop, archbishop, Metropolitan on March 14, Zagorsk, now Sergiev Posad, Moscow region. From G. in April, he was simultaneously managing the Orthodox Hungarian deanery, temporarily managing the Hague-Niderland and Korsunskaya France, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland; dioceses. The chairman of the department of external church relations from November from in G.

initiated the creation of synodal departments: religious education and catechesis, on social service and charity, in interaction with the armed forces and law enforcement agencies, in youth affairs and others. He was one of the initiators of the creation of the World Cathedral of the BRNS in the city of the Russian People’s Council. He was the co -chair and deputy head of the cathedral, the chairman of the Smolensky and G.

participated in preparations for the reunification of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Russian Orthodox Church abroad the act on canonical communication of the churches was signed in the city of the Russian Orthodox Church since December 6, this ceremony was held in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, whose rector is the Patriarch. Since February, since June, he has been an honorary chairman and heads the Presidium of the inter -religious council of Russia, which unites the heads of the Orthodox, Muslim, Jewish and Buddhist religious communities of the country.

Co -chairman of the inter -religious CIS Council with the city of the Chairman of the Society of Russian Literature from the city He leads on the First Channel the weekly religious and educational television program "The Word of the Shepherd" in the city of Patriarchate during the Patriarchate of Cyril carried out the reform of the central organs of the Church Administration of the Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate.

The Higher Church Council, the new synodal departments on the relationship between the Church with society and the media were formed; in monasteries and monasticism; In prison, the Patriarchal Councils on Culture and Protection of Family, Motherhood and Childhood, etc., an advisory authority was created - the interlocal presence in addition, the general church graduate school and doctoral studies were created.

The bishop's cathedral decided to publish the collected material on the preparation of the modern edition of the catechism of the official religious document in the form of three independent documents: “Fundamentals of the Orthodox creed”, “Fundamentals of the canonical structure and liturgical life of the Orthodox Church”, “Fundamentals of the Orthodox moral teaching” published in the city of parishes, the catechization of the repentant and administrative conversation was introduced.

A priest for adults who want to accept baptism.

61 Metropolis was established to Moscow, created in the city of Crimea in the city, restored and opened from above monasteries. As the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill visited the local Orthodox churches: Constantinople,, Alexandria, Antioch, Jerusalem, Bulgarian, Cyprus, Polish, Jerusalem, Elladskaya, Serbian, Romanian, Albanian, Albanian, where Bellingshausen's scientific station was at the scientific station The temple of the Holy Trinity operates.

At the end of the city, the Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church decided to break the Eucharistic communication with the Patriarchate of Constantinople. The winner of the President of the Russian Federation for contribution to the strengthening of the unity of the Russian nation, he was also awarded awards of various self -governing and autonomous churches of the Russian Orthodox Church and local Orthodox churches.

Honorary posts, titles of the Honorary Member of the Russian Academy of Education are an honorary professor and doctor of a number of Russian and foreign universities, including the St. Petersburg Theological Academy, the Moscow Theological Academy, the Orthodox Holy Tikhonovsky University, the general church graduate and doctoral studies of the named after the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles and Methodius, the Institute of Theology named after Lomonosov, diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign Ministry, St.

Petersburg State University, Moscow Pedagogical State University, etc. Honorary citizen of the Smolensk, Kaliningrad, Arkhangelsk regions, Smolensk, Kaliningrad, St. Petersburg, etc. Books Author of more than 20 books, including "Calls of modern civilization. As the Orthodox Church responds to them," word Shepherd and man.History of salvation "," Holy Rus' - together or apart? Patriarch in Ukraine, "" advanced detachment of the church "," Living memory: saints and we "," Think about the future of mankind "," Rev.

Sergius of Radonezh. Sample of Christian holiness "and others.