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Russia enthrones new leader of its Orthodox Church · 2009-02-02 16:47
A new patriarch has taken charge of the Russian Orthodox Church, becoming the church's first leader to be installed since the fall of the Soviet Union.
Patriarch Kirill received his vestments in a ceremony Sunday attended by hundreds of worshippers, including dozens of top clerics, as well as Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Russian President Dmitri Medvedev.
According to
Voce of America, the president said Kirill's enthronement creates conditions for "a dialogue of solidarity" between the church and the state.
Patriarch Kirill pledged to keep his church united. He said he would increase dialogue with other former Soviet republics and the churches in them, as well as with "sister churches", The Moscow Times informs.
The new patriarch said his priority was to bring God to young people. The church could not wait "in an age of moral relativism, when the propaganda of violence and depravity kidnaps the soul," for young people to come to it, he said.
Kirill also hinted that he may play a more active role as pastor of the 30 million Russian Orthodox believers living outside Russia.
Russian Orthodox leaders overwhelmingly chose Kirill, 62, as the church's new patriarch last week. Kirill is the church's 16th leader, overseeing a congregation of more than 100 million followers.
Kirill succeeds Patriarch Alexei, who died in December at the age of 79.
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