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Metropolitan Nikodim (secular name Boris Georgiyevich Rotov Russian: Борис Георгиевич Ротов 15 October 1929 – 5 September 1978) was the Russian Orthodox metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod from 1963 until his death.He was born in Frolovo in southwest Russia.According to the Mitrokhin Archive which claimed deep Communist penetration of the Russian Orthodox Church Metropolitan Nikodim was a KGB agent working under the codename Adamant whose ecumenical activity with the Roman Catholic Church and the World Council of Churches (WCC) served to further Soviet goals.
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