NEW HEAD OF RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH.—Metropolitan Pimen, the new Patriarch of Moscow and AU Russia, at his enthronement in Yelokhovsky Cathedral, Moscow, on June 3. The ceremony was reported to be one of the greatest gatherings of religious leaders in the Soviet Union since the 1917 revolution. The Russian Church, which will celebrate its millenium in 1980, is estimated to have 30 million adherents among the Soviet Union’s 241 million people. The new Patriarch is aged 61 and was formerly Metropolitan of Krutitsky and Kolomna.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32629, 10 June 1971, Page 11
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85NEW HEAD OF RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH.—Metropolitan Pimen, the new Patriarch of Moscow and AU Russia, at his enthronement in Yelokhovsky Cathedral, Moscow, on June 3. The ceremony was reported to be one of the greatest gatherings of religious leaders in the Soviet Union since the 1917 revolution. The Russian Church, which will celebrate its millenium in 1980, is estimated to have 30 million adherents among the Soviet Union’s 241 million people. The new Patriarch is aged 61 and was formerly Metropolitan of Krutitsky and Kolomna. Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32629, 10 June 1971, Page 11
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