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 by the Grace of the Most Holy Spirit and in accordance with the will of the people to become 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, with the blessing of His Beatitude, Metropolitan JONAH of All America and Canada 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 Orthodox Church in America 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!
