# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/patriarch-kirill-of-moscow
# Generated: 2026-09-01T02:58:03.705Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born Vladimir Mikhailovich Gundyayev on 20 November 1946, he rose through the church as Archbishop and later Metropolitan of Smolensk and Kaliningrad, serving as Chairman of External Church Relations and a permanent Holy Synod member from 1989. He became Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus' on 1 February 2009. A close ally of Vladimir Putin — whose father, according to Putin, baptized him — Kirill has called Putin's rule "a miracle of God" and steered the Russian Orthodox Church into tighter embrace with the Russian state. His relationship with Bartholomew I of Constantinople, the Ecumenical Patriarch, has grown tense. When Russia invaded Ukraine, Kirill lauded the war as a struggle against "forces of evil"; the World Russian People's Council under his leadership termed it a "Holy War." Bartholomew I said Kirill's support for Putin and the invasion damaged "the prestige of the whole of Orthodoxy."