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A Vote For Reconciliation
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Published: January 28, 2009
The interim leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, seen as a modernizer who could seek a historic reconciliation with the Vatican and more autonomy from the state, was overwhelmingly elected patriarch Tuesday.
Metropolitan Kirill received 508 of the 700 votes cast during an all-day church congress in Moscow's ornate Christ the Savior Cathedral, the head of the commission responsible for the election, Metropolitan Isidor, said hours after the secret ballot was over.
It was the first vote for a Russian Orthodox patriarch since the fall of the officially atheist Soviet Union in 1991.
Kirill, 62, will be installed Sunday as the successor to Moscow Patriarch Alexy II.
The Associated Press
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