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Patriarch Alexius II
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Patriarch Alexius II

1929 – 2008 · aged 79

15th Patriarch of Moscow and all the Rus', the primate of the Russian Orthodox Church (1929–2008)

Born
23 Feb 1929 · Tallinn
Died
5 Dec 2008 · Peredelkino
Part ofEstonia1198 – todayGermans1471 – todayRussian Orthodox Church1552 – today

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 91 years
  1. 23 Feb 1929BornBorn in Tallinn
  2. 1964RoleMetropolitan
  3. 1964 – 2008RoleSpeaker
  4. 1982AwardHonorary doctor of Protestant Theological Faculty – Charles University
  5. 1990 – 2008RolePatriarch of Moscow and all Russia
  6. 1995AwardHonorary citizen of Veliky Novgorod
  7. 1997AwardGrand Cross of the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas
  8. 1998AwardOrder of Francisc Skorina
  9. 1999AwardOrder of St. Andrew
  10. 2000AwardHonorary citizen of Moscow
  11. 2001AwardDostyk Order of grade I
  12. 2004AwardOrder of the Friendship of Peoples
  13. 2005AwardOrder of the Republic
  14. 2005AwardShohrat Order
  15. 2006AwardOrder of the Three Stars, 1st Class
  16. 5 Dec 2008DiedDied in Peredelkino

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1929 – 2008).

  1. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  2. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  3. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  4. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  5. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  6. 1938Munich Agreement
  7. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  8. 1939 – 1945World War II
  9. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  10. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  11. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  12. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  13. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  14. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  15. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  16. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  17. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  18. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  19. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  20. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  21. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  22. 1956Suez Crisis
  23. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  24. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  25. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  26. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  27. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  28. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  29. 1968Prague Spring
  30. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  31. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  32. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  33. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  34. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  35. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  36. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  37. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  38. 1985Schengen Agreement
  39. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  40. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall

Biography

Patriarch Alexy II (or Alexius II, Russian: Патриарх Алексий II; secular name Aleksei Mikhailovich Ridiger Russian: Алексе́й Миха́йлович Ри́дигер; 23 February 1929 – 5 December 2008) was the 15th Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus', the primate of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Elected Patriarch of Moscow in 1990, eighteen months before the dissolution of the Soviet Union, he became the first Russian Patriarch of the post-Soviet period.

Text from the Wikipedia article Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow, CC BY-SA 4.0

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