What is Patriarch Kirill of Moscow?
{{Infobox Christian leader | honorific-prefix = | name = Kirill | patriarch_of = [[Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus']] | honorific-suffix = | image = Patriarch Kirill I of Moscow 03 (cropped).jpg | caption = Kirill, [[Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus']] | enthroned = 1 February 2009 | ended = Incumbent | church = [[Russian Orthodox Church]] | see = Moscow | predecessor = [[Alexy II of Moscow|Alexy II]] | successor = | other_post = | birth_name = Vladimir Mikhailovich Gundyayev | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1946|11|20|df=yes}} | birth_place = [[Saint Petersburg|Leningrad]], [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|Russian SFSR]], [[Soviet Union]] (now Saint Petersburg, [[Russia]]) | ordination = 7 April 1969 | consecration = 14 March 1976 | consecrated_by = [[Nikodim (Rotov)]] | profession = | signature = Patriarch Kirill signature.svg | coat_of_arms = Monogram Patriarchy Moskiewskiego i całej Rusi, Cyryla..svg }} '''Kirill''' or '''Cyril''' ({{lang-ru|link=no|Кирилл}}, secular name '''Vladimir Mikhailovich Gundyayev''', {{lang-ru|link=no|Владимир Михайлович Гундяев}}; born 20 November 1946) is a [[Russians|Russian]] [[Orthodox Church|Orthodox]] [[bishop (Orthodox Church)|bishop]]. He became [[Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus']] and [[Primate (bishop)|Primate]] of the [[Russian Orthodox Church]] on 1 February 2009. Before becoming Patriarch, Kirill was [[Archbishop]] (later [[Metropolitan bishop|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 of the Russian Orthodox Church|Holy Synod]] beginning in 1989. ==Other websites== {{Commonscat-inline|Patriarch Kirill I}} * [http://orthodoxeurope.org/page/3/4.aspx Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad] * [http://vk.com/patriarhkirill Patriarch Kirill] in the social network [[VK (social networking)|VKontakte]] (official profile) {{DEFAULTSORT:Kirill}} [[Category:1946 births]] [[Categor