His Eminence, Metropolitan Kyrill elected
the Most Holy Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia

On Tuesday, January 27, 2009 during the Local Council of the Russian Orthodox Church, His Eminence, Patriarchal Locum Tenens and Metropolitan of Smolensk and Kaliningrad KYRILL was elected the 16th Most Holy Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia.

The Enthronement of His Holiness, Patriarch KYRILL of Moscow and All Russia will take place on Sunday, February 1, 2009 at Moscow’s Christ the Savior Cathedral.

Representing the Autocephalous Orthodox Church in America at the Patriarchal Enthronement will be:
His Grace, Bishop TIKHON of Philadelphia and Eastern Pennsylvania;
His Grace, Bishop BENJAMIN of San Francisco and the West;
Archimandrite Zacchaeus, Representative of the OCA to the Moscow Patriarchate; and
Archpriest Leonid Kishkovsky, Director of External Affairs and Interchurch Relations.

AXIOS to the newly elected Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, His Holiness KYRILL!