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Lyceum №6 named after A.S. Pushkin Research work. Believing to live, living to believe. done by the student in year 11 А
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Lyceum №6 named after A.S. Pushkin Research work Believing to live, living to believe done by the student in year 11А Veronika Maliarchouk Odintsovo, 2009
"Patriarch Alexy II had been a prominent figure in the history of the Russian Orthodox Church, as well as a great statesman <…> he made a very considerable contribution to relations between various faiths. It would not be an exaggeration to say that he had friendly relations with representatives of all traditional faiths in Russia". Putin also acknowledged that Alexy II "did a great deal to help establish a new governance system in Russia" • According to Russia's Prime-minister Vladimir Putin:
The purpose of my work is to prove that there was a man who devoted his life to Russia and its people
What's your worship? orthodox 72% another worship 18% 10% atheist
Are you interested to know about Alexy II? To my surprise, everybody answered «yes»
What do you think of Alexy II? Hard to answer Bad Good 98%
His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Russia (secular name Alexey Mikhailovich Ridiger) was born on 23 February 1929 in Tallinn, Estonia.
His Holiness Patriarch Alexy recollects: «I was the only son in my family. We lived very friendly. Strong love connected us... »
The six year boy carried out the first obedience : spilled Epiphany water
At the age of 8 he knew the Liturgy by hurt and his favourite game was to «serve»
In 1947 he entered the Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) Theological Seminary and graduated from it with honours in 1949
He married Vera Alekseeva, the daughter of a priest from Tallinn Georgi Alekseev, on 11 April 1950
year 1956 Young Alexy,1956
Young Alexey with his father, Michael Aleksandrovich and mother, Elena Pisareva
Recollecting those years, His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II speaks: « One God knows, how much each of the clerics who stayed in the Soviet Russia, instead of leaving abroad, had to go through... I was to begin church service at the time when one was no longer executed for, but one had to go through many difficulties, asserting interests of the Church; God and history will judge »
On the 7th of June God judged to him to be the Head of the Russian Orthodox Church
Soon after Enthronement His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II told about it: «Occuring changes can’t have failed to take place, for 1000 years of Christianity the land of Russia could not have disappeared absolutely as the God could not have left the people who used to love Him so much in past. Not seeing decades of a gleam, we did not leave prays and hope - over hope of hope as apostle Paul spoke. We know a history of mankind and we know love of the God to His children. And we scooped confidence from this knowledge, that times of tests and dominations of darkness would be terminated »
The head of the Russian Church frequently concerns a theme of revival of our national relic in the vicarial appeals to people: «The Temple of Christ the Savior became a visible sign of revivals of Holy Russ. It was being created by all people»
Modern fresco of the Donskoi Monastery, representing Alexy II bringing the relics of Patriarch Tikhon into the monastery
Konstanin Kharchev, former chairman of Soviet Council on Religious Affairs, explained: "Not a single candidate for the office of bishop or any other high-ranking office, much less a member of Holy Synod, went through without confirmation by the Central Committee of the CPSU and the KGB". Professor Nathaniel Davis points out: "If the bishops wished to defend their people and survive in office, they had to collaborate to some degree with the KGB, with the commissioners of the Council for Religious Affairs, and with other party and governmental authorities"
Alexy died at his home at his Peredelkino residence on 5 December 2008, reportedly of heart failure
Patriarch Alexy II had an extraordinary • career, in which he switched from suppressing the Russian Orthodox • Church to being its champion. As the • Church's effective foreign minister, he • helped cover up the repression of Russian Christians, defending the Soviet • system to the outside world. Surprisingly, perhaps, he seized the • moment, and went on to oversee the • revival and flowering of the Church