Patriarch Alexy II (or Alexius II Russian: Патриарх Алексий II; secular name Alexey 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 eighteen months prior to the fall of the Soviet Union he became the first Russian Patriarch of the post-Soviet period.
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