Cyril is the head priest. Patriarch Kirill: biography, his family and children
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Black secrets of Patriarch Kirill: how the prophecy will be fulfilled
Patriarch Kirill initially began his patriarchate in 2009 in an original way, in particular, he stated that the previous Patriarch Alexy 2 "died on time." The Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) has always had ill-wishers who opposed it in all directions, including inventing such sects as Jehovists, seventh-day transvestites, etc. But obviously the most effective way to destroy her is through her head. Let us immediately make a reservation that the Church of Christ on earth is the source of holiness and salvation, and no sins of people, whether clergy or not, can affect its essence.
It turns out that the biography of Patriarch Kirill is full of black and dangerous secrets. Do you know how Alexy 2 differs from Cyril? The fact that the first was appointed by the KGB officers, and the second was put on the post by the Jews.
Everyone knows that the appearance of Alexy 2 was greatly burdened by documents on the connection with the KGB of the agent-bishop "Drozdov", who became "patriarch" in 1990. No matter how hard the media tried to hush up this problem, it hung around the neck of the unfortunate Alexy II like a heavy stone.
There were always people who went to Church "not for the sake of Jesus, but for the sake of kus bread." Even while working in the Department for External Church Relations, Kirill established close ties with the Jews. A joint conference of the leadership of the Moscow Patriarchate and the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia (Berla Lazar) took place in St. Danilov Monastery (2005). In his speech, Metropolitan Kirill (Gundyaev) of Smolensk and Kaliningrad expressed a common understanding of the Church with the Christ-haters. Being the second-ranking person in the Russian Orthodox Church, the metropolitan called for the creation of "joint working groups ... to develop tolerance in society, educate the younger generation in the spirit of ... respect for traditional moral values", including the morality of the Jewish Jehovah (Satan) . An article about this in the "Jewish Word" (No. 11, 2005) is called "FEOR and the ROC, walking together."
Where they are going together, it should be clear to the Orthodox, if we remember what Berl Lazar's newspaper demands from the Orthodox:
“It is necessary not only deep and sincere repentance of Christians for all the evil that they have done to the Jews for 2000 years. It is necessary to introduce a new understanding of the attitude of Christians towards Jews into the very doctrine of Christian churches”; it is necessary to abandon the attitude towards Jews as “servants of the Antichrist” and “introduce into the daily service of Christians a prayer of repentance in memory of the innocent victims of the Jewish people, veneration of the holy places of Judaism, etc.” (“Jewish Word”, 2002, No. 15).
In the Fundamentals of the Social Concept of the Russian Orthodox Church, the work on which Kirill oversaw, the Jewish people are called "God's chosen ones", whose calling is to keep faith in the one true God. At the same time, it does not speak of Christians as successors of God's chosenness, and it is not noted that the Russian people to the greatest extent embodied this continuity in their retaining Orthodox statehood of the Third Rome ... "
Of course, the Jewish elite could not miss such a chance and took all conceivable and unthinkable measures to push Kirill to the Patriarchal post.
“Venerable brother” Lazar congratulated the newly elected Patriarch “with sincere joy”: Dear friend, brother! From the bottom of my heart I congratulate you on your election to the post of Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church. ... With sincere joy, we accepted ...; with great joy...
From Cyril's side, quivering love and tenderness are also noted: Dear Chief Rabbi Berl Lazar! I heartily congratulate... The Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia is a long-standing partner of the Russian Orthodox Church. I hope that in the future we will be able to find new points of contact...
I wonder what points of contact can be between those who crucified Christ and those who love Him? None.
In 2010, the Patriarch began to zealously fulfill his election promises, for example, Y. Kanner (President of the Russian Jewish Congress) reported that Patriarch Kirill invited him to discuss the details of cooperation between the RJC and the Orthodox Church through the department of the Moscow Patriarchate. Kanner explained that the memorial project "Regain Dignity" implemented under the auspices of the RJC is aimed at finding and putting in order the burial places of Jews.
Metropolitan Kirill accepts as a reward a golden "Adam's apple" from the hands of the leader of one of the Jewish communities in the USA:
The news of Cyril's election was met with great bewilderment by the clergy and believers.
According to the Charter of the Russian Orthodox Church (IV, 17), a candidate for Patriarch must "be of good repute." The fact that Met. Kirill's candidacy does not meet any of the above requirements is too obvious to close one's eyes to it. It is difficult to find a more scandalous personality in our entire hierarchy than M. Kirill. Moreover, a negative attitude towards this candidacy has formed both among external and “internal”, i.e. faithful children of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Financial fraud
In the mid-1990s, a scandal erupted over the publication of the sale of imported cigarettes by M. Kirill, which he received through the Church's humanitarian aid channels. In addition to super profits from the sale of cigarettes, it turned out that through the DECR he heads, Metropolitan Kirill is engaged in the sale of alcohol, the tourism business, precious stones, oil, and so on. At the same time, the firms established by M. Kirill disappear after a while, which allows him to make denials, and new ones appear in their place. Considering that Vladyka's huge amount of money practically did not benefit the Church, all this information, which had been in the media for many years, created a corresponding reputation for M. Kirill - a reputation as a person who serves not God, but mammon.
The windows of the Moscow apartment of Metropolitan Kirill in the ominous, but very prestigious and expensive "House on the Embankment" overlook not only the Kremlin, but also the Church of St. Nikola on Bersenevka - the headquarters of the conservative Union of Orthodox Brotherhoods.
Uniter of all faiths
Cyril is a convinced ecumenist to this day. The situation is aggravated by the fact that in ROCOR ecumenism has been condemned by a council. Every year on the Week of Orthodoxy in all churches of the Russian Orthodox Church, an anathema is proclaimed to ecumenists, which is called the "satanic direction", because it implies the unity of religions. How is it possible, for example, to coexist with the Anglican Church, whose priests are devout preachers of sodomy?
But Metropolitan Kirill goes further: in November 2007, he states that the canon on the ban on prayers with heretics "works" in relation to schismatics, but "does not work" in relation to Catholics and Protestants. The path of M. Cyril is the path of turning the church into a state under the pretext of creating a "strong Church." This is the path of the Vatican - striving not by spiritual authority, but by administrative measures to lead the flock like a flock, enslaving the conscience of believers to external authority. The joy of the Vatican over the election of Cyril is hard to miss: "The new patriarch will overcome the split between Orthodoxy and Catholicism."
Why Metropolitan Kirill?
After the announcement of the election of Metropolitan Kirill as Locum Tenens of the Patriarchal Throne, many asked themselves: why Kirill in particular? According to tradition, Metropolitan Yuvenaly, the head of the Moscow diocese, was supposed to take this position.
It is known that under the USSR, the authorities tried to admit to ordination to the episcopal rank mainly those who, in which case, could be blackmailed with compromising evidence. Considering that the entire Synod is only 7 bishops of the Soviet era, it is logical to assume what could make them vote for Metropolitan Kirill, and not for the one whose candidacy would be more appropriate. By the way, when His Holiness Patriarch Alexei tried to reason with the DECR Chairman on one issue or another, Metropolitan Kirill dumped documents into the media that tarnished the image of the Primate.
How the prophecy will be fulfilled
In Russia today, neither the political pro-Jewish elite, nor the higher clergy will be able and will not want to protect people from the Antichrist. When the "chief peacemaker" and "head of the whole world" officially appear, they will support him.
St. Christopher of Tula spoke about the fall of the Church and the clergy (ROC - ed. note), that in the Tula diocese there would remain one or two true priests, that Pimen was the last Orthodox Patriarch, foreseeing that subsequent hierarchs would bless everything: and numbers, and passports, and inscriptions.
His Holiness Pimen understood what was happening both in the Church and in the country. When asked: “Your Holiness, who will come after you?”, he replied: “You would better ask: what will happen?” But Pimen was alone. Nobody in the Synod understood him, and the majority simply hated him. To the question: "Who will be after Pimen?" Father Christopher replied: “And after him there will be the one who is pointed with the finger.”
Crime of the Patriarch before the people
The whitewashing of the occupational Medveputin regime by the hierarchy of the Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate is a crime before God and people.
According to the primate, today "great Russia is very poorly populated." He recalled that, according to scientists, at the beginning of the 21st century, 300 million people should have lived in Russia, while today half that number lives.
The reasons for this, according to the patriarch, are also that the people "began to be forced to realize that it is not necessary to have many children, one child is enough." It was then that such a terrible sin as abortion began to spread in the country, and many doctors, according to the patriarch, began to persuade mothers to commit it.
"The victorious nation turned out to be undermined by a terrible philosophy of life, godless and villainous, aimed at limiting the population," Patriarch Kirill said.
However, according to him, changes are already visible today, traditional values are being revived.
It seems that the patriarch, in general, said everything correctly, but the last phrase is false from beginning to end! What positive changes are visible today, and where is the revival of traditional values taking place?
This is a deliberate lie, designed to impress the Russian people that life in Russia is hard, but every day it gets better and better. Those. The Medveputin regime ruling in Russia, albeit slowly but consistently, is improving the lives of ordinary people in the country.
This is Novosergianism. The Patriarch, like the majority of the bishops of the Church, for the sake of the occupying Kremlin power, which mercilessly destroys Russia and the Russian people, whitewashes it and seeks to raise its authority in the eyes of the gullible people.
Endemic drunkenness, drug addiction, poverty, immorality everywhere and in everything, are planted by the occupiers. There is not only a physical murder by non-military means of the Russian people, but, what is most dangerous and terrible, a spiritual one. And the patriarch speaks of positive changes in the country.
Everything is destroyed: economy, industry, army, education, medicine, etc. From all state television channels, the spiritual and moral health of the nation is being destroyed, a de facto juvenile system has already been introduced, designed to destroy Russian families by removing children from them, and the patriarch talks about the revival of traditional values.
So where and in what way is this revival taking place?! So far, we see that exclusively traditional values of the Jewish people are being revived everywhere and actively in Russia.
Dmitry Medvedev's speech at the St. Petersburg forum was rightfully called "dreams in the swamps." Imitating the well-known Jewish swindler Ostap Bender, he drew in the imagination of the listeners the absolutely unrealistic phantasmagoric projects of the New Vasyuki, into which Russia should turn.
Patriarch Kirill does the same, singing along to the criminal tandem.
No one is calling for or demanding that the patriarch, bishops, and priesthood wage a political struggle against the Kremlin regime. But they are obliged to tell people the truth about the real, actual state of affairs in the country. They are obliged to raise vital issues before the current government. So far, we see only their special zeal and confrontation with the authorities only in matters relating to church property: land, buildings, etc. When addressing these issues, our hierarchies can express their indignation and even slam the door.
Yesterday we celebrated the Nativity of the Baptist John the Baptist. Why, after the Most Holy Theotokos, the second most glorious person in the Kingdom of Heaven, is not an example for the church hierarchy.
If the church hierarchy were Orthodox, then it would imitate our holy fathers of the Church, who denounced the worldly authorities in lawlessness. But one of them was St. John the Baptist, who denounced the “government officials” of that time in wickedness and called them to repentance. He denounced even King Herod himself, for which he was executed by him at the request of the wicked Herodias. It would seem, what did Saint John care about the personal sin of Herod's unlawful cohabitation with his brother's wife? But even for such a trifle, by today's standards, he denounced the king himself. And the holy Patriarch Hermogenes!...
But we, brothers and sisters, do not need to lose heart and fall into despair. The Lord is merciful and will not leave our long-suffering Russian people without His care and concern. We need to bring repentance to Him for our sins and ask for deliverance from the yoke of the Jews, which scourges Holy Russia.
The Pope has already abandoned the cross,
and Patriarch Kirill improved it!
Earlier, we already noticed the strange gesture of Pope Francis... who replaced his Cross with Jesus... with a certain shepherd STADA (cattle?)
However, a no less “strange” fact from the biography of Patriarch Kirill became known - it turns out that his mother had a maiden name Vekselman! And this means that our patriarch from the Russian Orthodox Church ... is a halachic Jew (!) Well, then this explains a lot (his servile "meeting" with Pope Francis, in particular!) ... as well as the "improved" cross on The head of the patriarch, as well as a lack of general education and a MORE THAN STRANGE attraction to ecumenism.
Quote: “... At least let us remember the speech of Metropolitan Kirill, Vladimir Mikhailovich Gundyaev, on September 21, 2010, who publicly called the Slavs beasts. And this becomes clear and understandable if you know the maiden name of Kirill's mother - Vekselman. Everything comes primarily from the human gene pool. If a person is a half-beast by nature, he will behave accordingly ... "
Vladimir Gundyaev - Bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church (Stages of the Great Way!)
1) BEFORE you start your church activities completed eight years of high school. He also tried himself in geology - since 1962 he worked as a cartographer in the Leningrad geological expedition. After three years of fruitful work, he entered the Theological Seminary, and after graduation, he entered the Theological Academy of the city of Leningrad.
In 1969, Vladimir was tonsured a monk and named Kirill. A year later, he graduated with honors from the academy with a Ph.D. in theology. In 1971, Hieromonk Kirill was elevated to the rank of archimandrite. A great achievement on his path was the appointment of Kirill as the representative of the Moscow Patriarch in Geneva, where the World Council of Churches is being held. (more than a strange and dizzying career in 2 years from a simple monk to an archimandrite!!!)
One of the first scandals that arose with the mention of the name of Metropolitan Kirill was the case of the use of tax incentives for the import of alcohol and tobacco products in the early 90s. Novaya Gazeta published an article that spoke of the Metropolitan's personal interest in transactions for the import of excisable goods. However, the absolute majority of religious figures stated that this was nothing but a provocation; a planned campaign that aims to tarnish the name of an honest man.
Metropolitan Kirill was also accused of having links with the KGB. In 2003, President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin received a letter stating that Kirill was a KGB agent. The letter was written by a priest of the Moscow Helsinki Group, but his provocation did not bring any results.
In 2012, a new scandal arose with the name of Patriarch Kirill related to the apartment he owns. His second cousin, registered with the Patriarch, sued a neighbor because, according to her, construction dust from his apartment contained harmful substances and was hazardous to health. The total amount of damage amounted to about 20 million rubles. The Patriarch himself, in response to sensitive questions about the vow of non-possessiveness replied that he personally had nothing to do with the sister's claim. All the noise raised on this issue, he considers aimed at undermining his authority and humiliating the Russian Orthodox Church as a whole.
There are very strict canons and laws in the church, to break which means to place oneself both outside the church and outside of Christ.
However, these canons are quite calmly violated by the last two "patriarchs", both the departed Ridiger and the scandalous and odious Gundyaev.
The Orthodox shrug their shoulders, but ..... they are silent in unison.
Only recently, part of the priesthood came out against ecumenism, which has been developing in the ROC since the 1960s.
Few people know that Gundyaev's spiritual teacher was Metropolitan Nikodim (Rotov), who died as an ardent heretic at the feet of the Pope.
This is the same Nicodemus, to whom one saint predicted during his lifetime: "You will die like a dog at the feet of the Pope."
This is how it is now - the "Russian Church" ........
Not so long ago, Izhevsk priests came out against ecumenists (only ecumenists).
Gundyaev and his clique were “excommunicated from the church”, and, just like in the USSR, all this flock of the false patriarch rallied around their “great master” the heretic Gundyaev and raised a friendly bark, drooling flowed, red eyes lit up, energetic claws and tails with teeth in cassocks scratched the ground.
It stinks strongly of sulfur, feces and smoke.
The heirs of communism went wild en masse.
This whole pack of post-communist dogs felt that the thrones were shaking under them, which threatened to lose huge money of rich false bishops and priests in the MP.
"Mercedes" and "Bentley" in the palaces of these monks lurked in horror.
These are not poor rural priests from some unknown Udmurtia.
The well-fed does not understand the hungry - in Moscow, their troubles, jamons, parmesan, moths in fur coat stores, small pearls, risotto and kohlrabi with Roquefort are not the same .....
Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven, as the Lord Himself has said.
If we look at the other sins of mortal Gundyaev and others like him, then we will see that the Russian Orthodox Church has long been gone from the country.
It is not surprising - what a Russian church can be under the foreign regime of Putin's aliens in the Kremlin!
Gundyaev accepts a golden apple from the hands of a New York rabbi
Rules of St. Apostle
62. If anyone from the clergy, being afraid of a man, a Jew, or a Greek, or a heretic, denies the name of Christ: let him be rejected from the church.
65. If anyone from the clergy or a layperson enters a Jewish or heretical synagogue to pray: let him be cast out of the holy order and excommunicated from the communion of the church.
70. If anyone, a bishop, or a presbyter, or a deacon, or in general from the list of the clergy, fasts with the Jews, or feasts with them, or receives from them the gifts of their feasts, such as: unleavened bread or something similar: let him be deposed. If he is a layman, let him be excommunicated.
Gundyaev in the Moscow synagogue
Saint Anthony the Great (+358): “The time will come, my children, when the monks will leave the deserts, and instead of them will flow into rich cities, where instead of these deserted caves and cramped cells, proud buildings will be erected that can compete with the chambers of kings; instead of poverty, the love of collecting wealth will increase; humility will be replaced by pride; many will be proud of knowledge, but naked, alien to good deeds corresponding to knowledge; love will grow cold; instead of abstinence, gluttony will increase, and very many of them will take care of luxurious dishes no less than the laity themselves, from whom the monks will not differ in anything else, except for their robe and headdress, and, despite the fact that they will live among the laity, will call themselves solitude . Moreover, they will magnify themselves, saying: I am Pavlov, I am Apollos, as if the whole strength of their monasticism lies in the dignity of their predecessors; they will be magnified by their fathers, as the Jews by their father Abraham. But there will be at that time those who will turn out to be much better and more perfect than us; for more blessed is he who could transgress, and did not transgress, and did evil, and did not do it, than he who was attracted to good by a mass of zealots striving for it.
Saint Nifont of Tsaregradsky (XV century): “In the last time, those who will truly serve God will safely hide themselves from people and will not perform signs and wonders among them, as at the present time, but will go the way of doing, dissolved by humility, and in the Kingdom Heavenly will be more Fathers, glorified by signs. My son! Until the end of the age, the saints will not become impoverished! But in recent years they will hide from people and will please God in such humility of mind that they will appear in the Kingdom of Heaven above the first miraculous fathers. And such a reward will be for them because in those days there will be no one before their eyes who would work miracles, and people themselves will perceive the zeal and fear of God in their hearts, for at that time the rank of bishop will be inexperienced and will not become love wisdom and reason, and will only care about self-interest. Similar to them and the monks will be from the possession of large estates; from vain glory their spiritual eyes will be darkened, and they will have in despise those who love God with all their hearts; the love of money will reign in them with all its might. But woe to the monks who love gold: they will not see the Face of God! The black and the Belets, who give gold at interest, if they do not soon lag behind this evil, they will be called covetous here, and their prayer will not be accepted, and fasting without benefit, and offering sacrifices to God, and alms - everything will be imputed to them as abomination and desecration. They will go along a wide path ... But I do not want to talk a lot about them. For I myself, from youth to old age, did not care about my salvation. Know that all wickedness will multiply from ignorance of the Scriptures.”
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When people buy what they don't need, when they buy for the sake of acquiring, when they don't know what to think of to console their flesh, when they demand more and more for their pleasure - that's when sin comes.
From the memoirs of Patriarch Kirill:
My childhood was spent in poverty. Five people lived in one room in a communal apartment, they lived very poorly, so at the age of 15 I had to leave home to earn a living. Worked, studied.
All my life I remember this experience of poverty, and, probably, I would not have understood much in my life if I had not gone through this experience.
A person in a difficult life situation has two ways. One way is to accept what is, but this way will not lead to a good result. There is another way - to say to yourself: this should not be in my life, I must get out of this state. And here is just the place where you can make such a decision. e.
Father Mikhail Gundyaev, son Volodya - the future His Holiness Patriarch Kirill, Abbess of the Pyukhtitsky Monastery Angelina (Afanasiev), daughter Lena, mother Raisa. 1950s (Photo from http://zvon80.ucoz.ru/news/patriarkh_kiril_i_ego_rodstvennikov_foto/2016-11-22-2379)
Vladimir Gundyaev did not serve in the army. For what reason is unknown. In the spring of 1969 he was tonsured a monk and received a new name - Cyril. He first graduated from the Leningrad Theological Seminary, then entered the Theological Academy, where he received the degree of Candidate of Theology.
Since that time, he did not leave the "career" of the clergyman. Gradually ascended the steps of power. At the age of 28 he became a teacher.
Cyril made his first attempts to do business in the late 80s. The cases did not bring serious dividends, but the clergyman did not give up trying.
Years later, Patriarch Kirill will justify his participation in this matter in the following way:
The people who did this did not know what to do: burn these cigarettes or send them back? We appealed to the government, and it made a decision: recognize it as a humanitarian cargo and provide an opportunity to implement it.
Patriarch Kirill (photo from Yandex.Image search)
Another business of Gundyaev, which brings a solid income, is the export of oil. Here the same scheme - the Government exempted him from duties, allowing him to occupy a privileged position among competitors. Money flowed like a river.
In the early 2000s, Kirill enters the market as the owner of a Kamchatka seafood catching company. A little later, he went into the automotive business in Kaliningrad.
On January 27, 2009, Vladimir Gundyaev became the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia. The exact amount of personal wealth is not known (it fluctuates in the range of 1.5-4 billion dollars, not counting real estate and other attributes of luxury). Nothing is known about the cases of charity on his part.
Patriarch Kirill to the parishioners:
It is very important to learn Christian asceticism... Asceticism is the ability to regulate one's consumption... It is a man's victory over lust, over passions, over instinct. And it is important that both the rich and the poor have this quality.
Patriarch Kirill is a popular religious figure in Russia with a large fortune. For some reason, he decided to dedicate his life to serving in the temple. He is a patriarch who has become one of the most recognizable religious people in the Russian Federation, which is capable of inspiring both admiration and condemnation.
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Many people know that Patriarch Kirill has been involved in many scandals, some of them real and some not. What is the origin of all these scandalous events? How did Patriarch Kirill become a priest and why did he choose the path of the temple? To what extent his ecclesiastical views Are they fair and are they doing their jobs well? We will tell all this in this article, so that those who want to know all the details about the life and work of Patriarch Kirill can do this without difficulty.
Detailed biography of Patriarch Kirill
Below is a detailed biography of the famous Russian church minister, Patriarch Kirill.
How old is Patriarch Kirill?
Patriarch Kirill is not among the pop stars, so he has absolutely nothing to look young or be slim. For a temple servant, on the contrary, it would be better if he looks impressive and principled. When answering questions about how old he is, what weight and height he is, you can report that:
- His height is 178 cm;
- Weight - 92 kilograms;
- Today, his age is 70 years.
- Patriarch Kirill celebrates his birthday on November 20.
Despite the above prerequisites, the patriarch carefully monitors his appearance. Likes to swim, skiing and hiking. So, in addition to serving God, he does not forget that he also needs to take care of himself. Throughout his life, Patriarch Kirill managed to see almost everything, managed to go a long way, on which he encountered both good and bad. Let's take a closer look at all of this.
Biography
The beginning of the biography of Patriarch Kirill is November 20, 1946. A fascinating fact is that when he was a child, his mother attended church with him. Then, by a childish mistake, he passed through the Royal Doors. After that, the frightened mother dragged him to the clergyman for absolution. However, he only waved his hand and said: "He will be a bishop."
Whether it was a coincidence or a prophecy, but a child named Cyril on this day really took the first step towards going through a long church path. However, this was still extremely far away, since everything that happened in his life naturally happened gradually, and as it was destined by fate. True name Cyril that was given to him at birth - Vladimir. Then he was still far from his future activities as Patriarch Kirill.
The mother of the future patriarch worked as a teacher, taught the children the German language. My father was just a clergyman, which, perhaps, was also indicated in the choice of the future path. In general, the whole family of the boy was in one way or another connected with religion. His grandfather was often exiled because of his connection with the church, his elder brother was the rector in one of the many cathedrals in St. Petersburg, and his sister worked as a teacher in an Orthodox gymnasium.
Before starting his activity, which is connected with the church, the future patriarch completed 8 classes of high school. Tried to get ahead in geology, but three years later he decided to enter the seminary. After graduating from the seminary, he moved to the theological academy, which at that time was located in Leningrad.
Middle name Cyril, young Vladimir received after he took the veil as a monk. From that time on, his religious path began - then he went to the metropolitan.
More than once he participated in what concerned the development of the metropolitan patriarchy, everywhere he strove to achieve the greatest success. Already in the 90s, Kirill began to pay a huge amount of attention to public relations, continuing to develop this activity. During the first half of the 90s on TV screens, a program starts, where he participates. The program was called "The Word of the Shepherd", it was devoted to spiritual issues and was able to achieve significant ratings both among ordinary residents and among politicians.
Also next year, Patriarch Kirill begins active work and interaction with the government of the Russian Federation:
The patriarch also began to maintain his page on Facebook.. The patriarch communicated there directly with those who visited his page and asked questions. He often answered the most important and relevant questions that were asked by other users. The clergyman has more than 500 publications, he is also the author of several books on religion and spirituality.
In 2000, Patriarch Alexy II died. Metropolitan Kirill is appointed to his post. Already next year, he was appointed to the post of Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, because he managed to collect the largest number of votes in the Local Council of the Russian Orthodox Church. It must be emphasized that the Patriarch has done a great deal to unite the Russian Orthodox Church abroad. He visited other states. The purpose of these visits was to meet with local religious leaders and other church representatives. All this significantly contributes to strengthening the position of the temple in the Russian Federation, expanding the boundaries of interaction between churches between countries.
However, despite the fact that Kirill is unusually dedicated to his own cause, more than once one could hear from him expressions regarding radical groups. He declared that such preachers should be feared, since nothing good can be expected from them. Say, quite often among the people there are charlatans, who teach bad thus exposing people to anxiety, which is rapidly crushing the foundations of the church.
Below is a photo of Patriarch Kirill in his youth.
Personal life
The personal life of Patriarch Kirill, at least formally, is missing. Because he is a man who devoted his life to serving in the temple, and not to someone else. Therefore, there is nothing unusual in the fact that the patriarch Cyril is single and has no family. In general, for him, personal life is the state, because he has repeatedly admitted that it is extremely important for him to bring light and truth to people. No one can accurately tell how this corresponds to the truth, but anyway, it is necessary to take into account the fact that he is a person who was recognized as a religious figure and formally he cannot have a personal life, he has a completely different path that belongs to the temple.
Family
For Patriarch Kirill, the family is his religious activity, since he dedicated his life to God. Therefore, it is not strange that he is not married, and also has no children, because for him in the first place to do everything so that interaction between church houses in Russia and other countries develops.
He does it great, because from his very youth he successfully went through the “work activity” of a church minister step by step, in order to achieve something in it. It is difficult to say for sure whether he is tormented by the fact that he does not have his own family with children. In fact, he doesn't have time for that. Apart from this, he is absolutely not alone; many ordinary people turn to him for his advice.
Children
For Cyril, all his parishioners and people who need his support and practical advice are children. So, at least, he says. More than once he said that he was ready to help anyone who needs his help. For this reason, he even registered on social networks so that he could answer the most important and relevant questions. He does not have his own legitimate children, perhaps he would even wish that he had them, but the rank forced him to renounce such ordinary, family joys as a wife and children. However, having chosen the path of a monk, and then a metropolitan and patriarch, he gave preference to spiritual growth over ordinary earthly values.
Wife of Patriarch Kirill
The wife of the patriarch is generally a closed topic, since once he took the tonsure and voluntarily gave up any personal life. And although quite often you can hear that Cyril "indulged in sin", that he was seen more than once in the company of long-legged and beautiful models, in fact, all this is not confirmed. Most people think that all this is fiction, that Patriarch Kirill is still a faithful clergyman who is not going to deviate from the intended path. Be that as it may, formally a religious figure does not have a wife or children of his own. The church serves as his home, and his parishioners serve as children, and women do not exist for him.
The activity of the clergyman
Being a well-known religious leader Naturally, there is a lot of gossip around Patriarch Kirill. Some of them will be given below, and we will also discuss the most famous manifestations of his activities.
Patriarch Kirill on a ship with women
It should be noted that around him, as usual, it happens with public figures, gossip often revolves, conflicts flare up. Often he was blamed for various sins., it's hard to tell which ones are really true and which ones aren't real. Quite often one could hear accusations that Patriarch Kirill was having fun on a ship with girls, that he was wasting church income to make his life better.
The patriarch himself denies or simply ignores such accusations, they say, all these are intrigues of his opponents and enemies of the temple. Naturally, all people are vicious, but it is difficult to say whether there are grounds for blaming Cyril, but whatever it is, he still remains a person who primarily serves God.
Patriarch Kirill and Yaponchik
Cyril is connected and completely ridiculous rumors. For example, on the Web you can often find accusations that Yaponchik and Patriarch Kirill are one and the same person. We are talking about a popular thief buried in the 2000s. Almost all parishioners saw the indisputable similarity of these people. As if the patriarch has a black past, and now he successfully hid in order not to end up in jail. Again, whether this is true or not is unknown., but most of the Russian religious people think that all this is the intrigues of other religious campaigns, the task of which is to spoil the reputation of a conscientious religious leader.
Word of the Shepherd
As mentioned above, the church leader has more than once interacted with the public in order to carry the word of God to the people. One example of these projects is the program "The Shepherd's Word", where the face of Patriarch Kirill flickered on the screens for millions of people to watch and listen to him, who want to find answers to the pressing questions posed. This religious and educational program was aimed precisely at ensuring that everyone who wants to reconsider their life, or simply needs help, has the opportunity to try to do this together with Patriarch Kirill.
Cyril gladly helped those who wanted to help themselves and live with dignity. Naturally, there were evil tongues here too, as if the priest is doing all this for the sake of advertising. It is rather difficult to say who is right here, and to what extent Cyril is who he claims to be, but in one way or another, it is necessary to show respect for his dignity and active work, which is completely connected with religion, as well as the church.
There were, are and will be many rumors about him, which may even seem like complete nonsense. However, unfortunately, it turns out that public people, every day, are exposed to the presence of many opponents, there are also those to whom they inadvertently crossed the road. Therefore, people can only choose the side of the person they consider right.
Patriarch against abortion
Regardless of the age of Patriarch Kirill, he does not stop his dynamic work. With the arrival of this autumn, Kirill signed an appeal calling for a ban on abortions in the Russian Federation. More than 300,000 people signed this petition.
In his own address, which was agreed with the commission of the Patriarchate, the church leader calls on everyone to ensure that the health and well-being of families with newborn children should be protected by law. In this paper, he calls the power of the country to prohibit interventions that terminate pregnancy, such as:
- medical;
- Surgical.
Instead of abortions, a proposal was made to increase material assistance to expectant mothers and mothers with children up to the subsistence level. Naturally, the reaction of the inhabitants to such an appeal was diverse. One half of the people consider such an appeal to be correct and support it, while the other half protests.
The public expressed their negative opinion regarding the introduction of a ban on abortion, explaining that in the current conditions it can lead to a significant increase in clandestine abortions. As for the increase in benefits for expectant mothers, given the current state of the economy, this simply cannot be.
In addition, the opinion was expressed that in order to reduce the number of artificial termination of pregnancy, no prohibitions should be introduced, this should be done by the method of conducting the work of the temple.
Patriarch Kirill
Wealth of Patriarch Kirill: how the head of the Russian Orthodox Church earned capital. Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill in the nineties did not waste time in vain: in his professional piggy bank the organization of tobacco, oil, automobile and food business. According to various estimates, all this hectic activity brought capital to the head of the Russian Orthodox Church in the amount of 1.5-4 billion dollars. Now the patriarch has at his disposal an apartment in the famous “House on the Embankment”, a Breguet watch worth about 30 thousand euros, palaces in Peredelkino and Gelendzhik, as well as a personal fleet. world - Gundyaev Vladimir Mikhailovich. According to the newspaper, in the 90s, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, being a modest head of the Department for External Church Relations (DECR MP), was actively involved in business, thanks to which he amassed a fortune of several billion. Yes, not rubles, but dollars.
The business career of the patriarch began in 1993. Then, with the participation of the Moscow Patriarchate, the Nika financial and trading group arose, whose vice-president was Archpriest Vladimir Veriga, commercial director of the DECR MP. A year later, two commissions for humanitarian aid appeared under the government of the Russian Federation and at the same time in the OVCC: the first decided what kind of aid could be exempted from taxes and excises, and the second - imported this aid through the church line and sold it to commercial structures. Thus, most of the tax-exempt aid was distributed through the regular trade network, at normal market prices.
Through this channel, in 1996 alone, the DECR imported about 8 billion cigarettes into the country (data from the government commission for humanitarian aid). This caused serious damage to the "tobacco kings" of that time, who were forced to pay duties and excises and therefore lost in the competition of the DECR MP.
According to Sergei Bychkov, Doctor of Historical Sciences, who published several articles about the patriarch's tobacco business, when Kirill decided to leave this business, more than $50 million worth of "church" cigarettes remained in customs warehouses. During the criminal war for these cigarettes, in particular, an assistant to the deputy Zhirinovsky, a certain Dzen, was killed.
And here is a letter from the State Customs Committee of the Russian Federation to the Moscow Customs Administration dated February 8, 1997, regarding “church” cigarettes: “In connection with the appeal of the Commission on International Humanitarian and Technical Assistance under the Government of the Russian Federation and the decision of the Prime Minister dated January 29, 1997, No. VC-P22/38 I authorize the production of customs clearance of tobacco products in accordance with the established procedure with the payment of only excise duty received on the customs territory before 01.01.97, in accordance with the decision of the above-mentioned Commission.
So, in fact, since then, a new title has been assigned to Metropolitan Kirill - “Tobacco”, writes Novaya Gazeta, while specifying that now he is no longer titled like that. Now it is customary to call the patriarch "Lyzhneg" - with the light hand of Orthodox bloggers who drew attention to the great importance in the life and work of Kirill of his passion for skiing (this hobby is served by a villa in Switzerland and a private jet, and in Krasnaya Polyana it helps to consolidate informal relationships with strong this world).
By the way, Kirill himself somehow tried to justify his participation in the tobacco business: “The people who were involved in this did not know what to do: burn these cigarettes or send them back? We appealed to the government, and it made a decision: recognize it as a humanitarian cargo and provide an opportunity to implement it.” Government representatives categorically denied this information, after which Patriarch Alexy II liquidated the DECR-MP commission and created a new ROC-MP Humanitarian Aid Commission headed by Bishop Alexy (Frolov).
In addition to the aforementioned Nika fund, the DECR MP acted as the founder of the commercial bank Peresvet, JSC International Economic Cooperation (MES), JSC Free People's Television (SNT) and a number of other structures. After 1996, Kirill's most profitable business was the export of oil through the MES, which was exempted from customs duties at the request of Alexy II. Kirill was represented at the MES by Bishop Viktor (Pyankov), who now lives as a private individual in the United States. The company's annual turnover in 1997 was about $2 billion.
Due to the secrecy of this information, it is now difficult to understand whether Kirill continues to participate in the oil business, but there is one very eloquent fact. A few days before the start of the US military operation against Saddam Hussein, Kirill's deputy Bishop Feofan (Ashurkov) flew to Iraq.
In 2000, information was made public about Metropolitan Kirill's attempts to penetrate the market of marine biological resources (caviar, crabs, seafood) - the relevant government structures allocated quotas to the company established by the hierarch (JSC "Region") for catching king crab and shrimp (total volume - more than 4 thousand tons).
According to Kaliningrad journalists, Metropolitan Kirill, as the ruling bishop of the diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate in the Kaliningrad region, participated in an automobile joint venture in Kaliningrad. It is characteristic that Kirill, even after becoming patriarch, did not appoint a diocesan bishop to the Kaliningrad cathedra, leaving it under his direct control.
In 2004, Nikolai Mitrokhin, a researcher at the Center for Shadow Economy Research at the Russian State Humanitarian University, published a monograph on the shadow economic activity of the ROC MP. The value of the assets controlled by Metropolitan Kirill was estimated in this work at $1.5 billion. Two years later, journalists from Moscow News tried to count the assets of the head of the Church Foreign Ministry and came to the conclusion that they already totaled $4 billion.
And according to The New Times, in 2002, Metropolitan Kirill bought a penthouse in the "House on the Embankment" overlooking the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. By the way, this is “the only apartment in Moscow registered specifically in the name of the metropolitan, by his secular surname Gundyaev, about which there is a corresponding entry in the cadastral register.”
Another attribute of this life, which has become the subject of wide discussion, is a Breguet watch worth about 30 thousand euros, which Ukrainian journalists photographed on the left hand of the patriarch next to the monastic rosary. This happened the next day after Kirill pompously broadcast live on the main Ukrainian TV channels: “It is very important to learn Christian asceticism ... Asceticism is the ability to regulate one's consumption ... This is a person's victory over lust, over passions, over instinct. And it is important that both the rich and the poor possess this quality.
The luxurious motorcades of Patriarch Kirill and the security services from the FSO, which he uses, have become a byword. In Moscow, when a patriarch travels, all the streets along his route are blocked, which, naturally, causes mass indignation of car owners. In Ukraine, Kirill's half-kilometer corteges completely shocked local residents: in a neighboring country, even the president travels much more modestly.
True, we must pay tribute to Kirill: for official visits, he charters the planes of the Transaero company, and uses his personal fleet only for personal purposes.
A separate and almost inexhaustible topic is the palaces and residences of the patriarch. Cyril strives to keep up with the first persons of the state in this matter. His permanent residence was the newly built palace in Peredelkino, for the sake of which several houses of local residents were demolished. From the windows of the trains of the Kiev direction, it looks like a large Russian tower - like the Terem Palace in the Kremlin. Kirill does not like living there: he is worried about the nearby railway.
Therefore, the current patriarch ordered to re-finish the palace in the Danilov Monastery, which had not looked poor before. Not without scandals and the construction of the patriarchal palace in Gelendzhik, which first of all aroused the indignation of local environmentalists.
For the first time, the scandal around the Gelendzhik dacha of the patriarch broke out a year ago, when the activists of the "Environmental Watch" in the North Caucasus penetrated the territory of the facility under construction. During the inspection, they found out that at least 10 hectares of a unique forest are fenced with a three-meter fence, and in the center there is a strange “pathos” building topped with domes - something between a temple and a mansion.
At the same time, according to Novaya Gazeta, in 2004 the Russian Orthodox Church received at its disposal a plot of land with an area of only 2 hectares. Moreover, this land belonged to the Forest Fund, respectively, according to the law, it is impossible to build capital buildings on this land. Nevertheless, large-scale construction began here. Ecologists say that during the construction, from 5 to 10 hectares of valuable forest were cut down, which is confirmed by images from space.
The Russian Orthodox Church hastened to refute the arguments of the "greens". The Moscow Patriarchate referred to the act of Rospotrebnadzor, according to which no facts of illegal logging were recorded on the territory of the Spiritual and Cultural Center. Environmentalists, in turn, point to the fact that the document was drawn up in December 2010 - that is, several years after the destruction of the forest.
Another scandal around the patriarch's dacha, again initiated by environmentalists, flared up in October of the past year. Then the activists said that the fire that broke out at the end of September of the same year on the territory of the Spiritual and Cultural Center of the Moscow Patriarchate could be the result of arson. As Novaya Gazeta noted at the time, according to the law, builders are required to pay hundreds of thousands of rubles in compensation for destroyed trees. And if the trees were burned in the fire, then compensation payments can be avoided.
At the beginning of 2011, information appeared in the press that the ROC facility under construction near Gelendzhik was nothing more than a dacha for Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia. However, the information department of the Moscow Patriarchate refuted these arguments, stating that a spiritual center of the Russian Orthodox Church in southern Russia is being built on this site, along with existing centers in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
