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Alexy II, the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, in the Holy Trinity Laura of St. Sergius, 2004.
Patriarch Alexius II (born February 23, 1929) is the current Patriarch of Moscow and the spiritual leader of the Russian Orthodox Church. He was born as Alexey Mikhailovich Ridiger in Tallinn, Estonia, to the family of a priest; he is a descendant of the German Baltic nobility clan of von Rüdiger, which adopted Orthodoxy in the 18th century.
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©RIA Novosti / TopFoto
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