page_title: List of Russian people
section_title: Orthodox leaders
hierarchical_section_title: List of Russian people / Religious figures / Orthodox leaders
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Photo: Der Patriarch und Heilige der Russisch-Orthodoxen Kirche de:Tichon (Patriarch von Moskau) (1865 – 1925) English: Saint Tikhon of Moscow (1865 – 1925):the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia of the Russian Orthodox Church during the early years of the Soviet Union, 1917 through 1925 Русский: Патриарх Тихон (1865 – 1925):Патриарх Московский и всея России в XX веке, после восстановления патриаршества, (1917—1925) 日本語: 聖ティーホン：モスクワ及び全ロシアの総主教。ロシア革命直後の1917年から—1925年に在位。
context_page_description: This is a list of people associated with the modern Russian Federation, the Soviet Union, Imperial Russia, Russian Tsardom, the Grand Duchy of Moscow, Kievan Rus', and other predecessor states of Russia.
  Regardless of ethnicity or emigration, the list includes famous natives of Russia and its predecessor states, as well as people who were born elsewhere but spent most of their active life in Russia.
context_section_description: Metropolitan Alexius, saint, ruled Russia during Prince Dmitry Donskoy's minority
  Patriarch Alexy I, longest serving Patriarch in the Soviet era
  Patriarch Alexy II, first post-Soviet Patriarch, oversaw the period of major church restoration and religious renaissanse
  Metropolitan Isidore, attempted a reunion with the Roman Catholic Church, which instead led to independence of the Russian Orthodox Church
  Patriarch Job, last Metropolitan and the first Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia
  Patriarch Kirill, current Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia
  Metropolitan Macarius, saint, prominent iconographer
  Patriarch Nikon, introduced major church reforms which eventually led to a lasting schism in the Russian Orthodox Church, known as Raskol
  Metropolitan Philaret, saint, the principal Russian theologician of the 19th century
  Patriarch Philaret, de facto ruler of Russia during the minority of his son, Tsar Mikhail
  Patriarch Pimen, oversaw the end of the persecution of Christianity in the Soviet Union and the 1000th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus'
  Patriarch Sergius, led the Russian Orthodox Church during World War II, when the earlier Soviet militant atheism was scaled down and the Church was re-legalised
  Patriarch Tikhon, first Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia after restoration of the Patriarchate in the early Soviet era
caption: Patriarch Tikhon
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