Metropolitan Kirill is elected to the Moscow Patriarchal Throne

The outcome of the election of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia was declared at the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in the evening of 27 January 2009. The Local Council elected Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad to the Moscow Patriarchal Throne.

The Chairman of the Counting Committee, Metropolitan Isidor of Yekaterinodar and Kuban, announced that 702 delegates had voted by secret ballot. The number of ballot papers after voting was 700, including 677 valid and 23 invalid ballots.

The Locum Tenens of the Patriarchal Throne Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad got 508 votes; Metropolitan Clement of Kaluga and Borovsk, Chancellor of the Moscow Patriarchate – 169 votes.

The participants in the Council applauded the news of the election of Metropolitan Kirill the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church.

• Complete photoreport of Divine Liturgy with Enthronement rite
• Address by His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia after his enthronement at the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour on 1 February 2009
• New Primate of the Russian Church receives the staff of Metropolitan Peter of Moscow
• Enthronement of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill at the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour
• The Local Council of the Russian Orthodox Church completes its work
• Head of the Russian state congratulates Metropolitan Kirill on his election to the Patriarchal Throne
• Metropolitan Kirill is elected to the Moscow Patriarchal Throne
• Local Council of the Russian Orthodox Church opens at the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour
• Patriarchal Locum Tenens officiates at the Divine Liturgy on the first day of the Local Council’s work