For three years already Patriarch Kirill has headed the Russian Orthodox Church. Services, sermons, meetings, travel, flights – all this makes for a crazy schedule and hard work.
At his enthronement on February 1, 2009, Patriarch Kirill remarked: “Being Patriarch is first and foremost a very heavy cross. The Lord has called you to this service. This service entails cutting off everything connected with living a personal life.”
For three years already His Holiness has followed this path. Only a few moments of the Patriarch’s life and work have been captured on camera.
Photographs: photosight.ru (Egor Gavrilenko, Alexander Vedernikov, Dmitri Utkin, Alexander Osokin), patriarchia,ru, and other open Internet sources.>
Veliky Novgorod. Holy Wisdom Cathedral. September 2009.
Memorial service at the site of terrorist attack. Lubyanka metro station in Moscow.
March 4, 2010. Granting of doctorate honoris causa. National Research Nuclear University. Moscow.
With His Holiness, Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople. Visit to St. Petersburg, 2010.
With Rinat Akhmetov, president of FC Shakhtar Donetsk. May 2011.
