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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.
Aleksey II, Russian Orthodox Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia from 1990 to 2008. He was an outspoken advocate of the rights of the church and he strove to restore the Russian Orthodox Church to the prominence it had enjoyed before the Soviet Union repressed religious expression.
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Patriarch Alexei II of Moscow and All Russia. His Holiness Patriarch Alexei II (Ridiger) of Moscow February 23, 1929 - December 5, 2008 [1]) was the Patriarch of Moscow and the head of the Russian Orthodox Church from 1990 until his death. Contents. 1 Life and ministry. 2 Name. 3 Criticism. 4 External links. 5 Notes. Life and ministry.
Patriarch Alexy II 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.
Dec 6, 2008 · Dec. 6, 2008. MOSCOW Patriarch Aleksy II, who as leader of the sprawling Russian Orthodox Church presided over its restoration as a powerful influence in Russian society after decades of...
Dec 5, 2008 · Alexy II (secular name Aleksey Ridiger) became the Patriarch of Moscow and all of Russia right before the collapse of the Soviet Union. During the Soviet regime he did much to protect the Orthodoxy from persecution, and when the epoch of atheism was finally over, he put his efforts into the revival and renewal of the Russian Orthodox Church.
views 3,651,450 updated. Alexy II or Aleksy II (əlyĕk´sē), 1929–2008, 15th patriarch of Moscow and all Russia (1990–2008), b. Estonia, as Aleksey Mikhailovich Ridiger. He spent 11 years as a Russian Orthodox parish priest before becoming bishop of Tallinn and Estonia in 1961.
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