Patriarch Kirill Biography Children

St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Kirill Childhood and family Vladimir Gundyaev was born in Leningrad on November 20 in the religious, despite the anti -church mood, who reigned in those years. His grandfather Vasily Stepanovich G. in the year was in Solovki on the denunciation of the renovationists a religious current, which was opposed to the Orthodox Church after the revolution and for some time supported by the Bolsheviks, the enemy of which he was.

But even in the camp, Vasily did not abandon his faith, conducted secret services, for which he spent a month in a penalty area. In exile, a Christian stayed up to a year. After graduation, he worked for some time as an assistant in the Church of Lukoyanov, and moved to Leningrad, where he entered the highest theological courses. He regularly attended all lectures and literally recorded them.

Mikhail Vasilievich Gundyaev after two years closed the courses, Mikhail went to the army. Having served, he entered the technical school, then to the industrial university. Initially, he is planned to go to study at a doctor, but because of the mark on theological courses in his personal file he was “wrapped”.

In the year, he was arrested in the “Kirov case” for service in the church and singing on Church - just a few days before the wedding. Michael was accused of attempted the life of Joseph Stalin. Also, being a religious person, she sang with pleasure in the church choir, where she met her future husband. Together with his wife, Mikhail spent three years on Kolyma, then returned to Leningrad, worked at the factory.

In the year, the firstborn Nikolai was born. In the war years, Mikhail helped strengthen the city during the siege, went to the front. After the victory, the family began to live in a city recovering from the blockade, their second son Vladimir was soon born. At this time, the state began to establish a dialogue with the church, and therefore Gundyaev, at the risk of losing a high position in society, nevertheless asked for ordination.

In the year, Mikhail was erected to the rank of deacon and appointed to the temple of the Smolensk Icon of the Mother of God. Patriarch Kirill Vladimir Gunadev in childhood two years later, the warmer relations of the church and the state began to deteriorate again. For ministry on Mikhail, a fine that was inconceivable at that time was imposed on a comparison at that time, for the Victory car, which cost about 15 thousand, even wealthy people saved up for years.

Part of the money was raised by Leningrad parishes, but until the death of Mikhail, a large family, except for Nikolai and Vladimir, had a daughter Elena, G. were saved by grateful parishioners who helped out products. Vladimir, Elena and Nikolai Gundyaevs, the grandfather who returned home in the middle of x. He told his grandson that even during the most severe camp tests that carried away the lives of most people, he never felt fear.

Every school day was a test for Vladimir. The opponent of the communist regime, he became neither a pioneer nor a Komsomol member. When the school principal convinced Gundyaev to put on a pioneer tie, he replied: “Good. If you do not mind that I will go to church in a red tie. Because I will. " Permanent pedagogical councils and drafting from the director did not prevent Vova from studying well.

The soul of the future Patriarch lay for physics and other exact disciplines. Having graduated from the eight -year -old education, Vladimir did not continue school education. He decided to live an independent life, without burdening the needy parents, who still had his younger sister in care. Having settled in Vespers, in the year Vladimir began to work as a cartographer in the Leningrad complex geological expedition.

Young Vladimir Gundyaev worked in a geological expedition in the year, Gundyaev entered the Leningrad Theological Seminary, continued to study at the theological academy. According to the information found in some sources, he went through the program in an accelerated mode at the request of Metropolitan Nicodemus Rotov, the cellular, that is, the secretary of which Vladimir became later, in the year.

Religious activity in the April of the year Vladimir Gundyaev was tonsured in monks and called Cyril, ordained a hierodeacon, followed by a hieromonk. A year later, he graduated from the Academy with honors and degree of candidate of theological sciences. In the photo: Vladimir Gundyaev and Metropolitan Nicodemus, he combined activities as secretary Nicodemus with teaching in his alma mater.

In the year, Cyril was erected to the rank of Archimandrite, in October of that year he became the rector of the Orthodox Church in Geneva, Switzerland. Hieromonk Cyril on the day of ordination from that moment Cyril begins to move up the service, so to speak, stairs. For 20 years, he went from Archimandrite to Metropolitan; He was the chairman of the Commission of the Holy Synod, which is involved in the solution of current issues of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Interview of the future Patriarch year of social activity in the x years Patriarch Kirill is increasingly deepening into social activities. In the year, the television program “Word of the shepherd” with his participation, which illuminated spiritual and educational issues, was clear to the simple viewer with his language.Exclusive interview. Patriarch Kirill at the same time, Cyril, being the chairman of the department of external relations of the Russian Orthodox Church, organized work on the creation of the concept of the Russian Orthodox Church in the field of church-state relations.

The result of his work was the “Fundamentals of the Social Concept of the Russian Orthodox Church” adopted in the year at the Bishop Cathedral of the Cathedral of the Cathedral, which set out the official position of the Orthodox Church in interaction with the state. He was repeatedly a member in various advisory bodies, took part in resolving issues related to the Chechen Republic at the time of military campaigns; He was engaged in the organization of various cultural events: the celebration of the Flight of Christianity, the holding of the year of the Russian Federation in a number of countries.

Metropolitan Kirill was appointed to the post of patriarchal locomotor. Regular visits to neighboring countries and meetings with religious figures and representatives of other faiths significantly strengthened the position of the church, and also expanded the boundaries of cooperation between states. Patriarch Kirill and Vladimir Putin, despite the loyalty of the case, the Patriarch repeatedly spoke about radical groups, saying that such preachers must be afraid.

According to him, more and more often praises appear among the people who plunge people into turmoil, because a powerful instrument of destruction of the church is hiding behind beautifully designed slogans. The scandals of one of the first scandals arising with the mention of the name of the then Metropolitan Kirill was the case of using tax benefits for the import of alcoholic and tobacco products in the early xs.

The New Gazeta publication published an article that spoke about the personal interest of the Metropolitan in transactions for importing excursive goods. However, the vast majority of religious figures stated that this is nothing more than a provocation; A planned campaign that pursues the target to tarnish the name of an honest person. In the year, President Vladimir Putin received a letter stating that Cyril is an agent of the KGB.

The author of the letter was the priest of the Moscow Helsinki group, however, his actions, regarded by society as a provocation, did not bring any results. In the year, a new scandal broke out around the name of the Patriarch. The comrade -in -arms of Cyril Lidia Leonova found a thick layer of dust in his apartment. The arrived commission ruled that the substance hit the apartment from below - its owner, academician and clergyman of the UOC MP Yuri Shevchenko made repairs.

Examination showed that dust contains carcinogenic substances. The damage caused to property amounted to more than 20 million. Patriarch Kirill: “Do not strive to live better”, however, the press was interested not so much to the property of the Patriarch property as the status of Lydia Leonova, who apparently lived in the apartment of Vladimir Gundyaev.

Later, on the air of Vladimir Solovyov, the owner of the real estate explained that the apartment was presented to him by the deputy Yuri Luzhkov by decree of Boris Yeltsin, while the Patriarch himself “did not live in it and weeks”, but transferred it to the second cousin - Lidia Leonova. In the year, a photograph of the Patriarch with expensive Breguet watches on the wrist was posted on the website of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Later, the clock disappeared from the photo, but remained in reflection on the table. In the press service of the Russian Orthodox Church, this incident was called the "ridiculous mistake of the photo editor." Soon the original version of the photograph returned to the site - with a clock. The patriarch’s watch disappeared from the photograph, but Patriarch Kirill’s personal life remained in reflection when, after the scandal from the dust victim from dust, it turned out that in the ill -fated apartment of Patriarch Kirill on the street.

Serafimovich is registered by a certain Lidia Mikhailovna Leonova, a hype was expected to rise in the press. Journalists believe that in this photo Vladimir Gundyaev was photographed with Lydia Leonova and their son, despite the fact that Patriarch personally called her his second cousin, she was called the “cohabitant of Kirill Gundyaev” in the press, and he himself, “an exemplary family man”, and even cited their joint photograph of the year.

However, a statement about any love connection between them does not withstand any criticism, because Patriarch Kirill completely abandoned his personal life in the name of serving the Lord. Accordingly, the wife and more than the cohabitant and children cannot have. Patriarch Kirill now in September became known that the Patriarch fell ill with coronavirus. Patriarch Kirill: The latest news and articles.