Kirill blev vald till ny patriark!
Mitt bland den senaste tidens (numera) inomkatolska stormiga händelser, kom den goda nyheten från öst!
Kirill var min favorit inför det ryska patriarkvalet - och han var också förhandstippad som vinnare av en del. Fast det verkade för bra för att vara sant - så jag inväntade resultatet....
Valprocessen är förresten intressant. Även lekfolk har inflytande över den (fast tyvärr inte de som inte hör till de mest betydande).
"About 700 priests, monks and powerful laypeople gathered for the vote in Moscow's Christ the Savior Cathedral".
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"Breaking News -- Kirill Elected New Russian Orthodox Patriarch
The bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church this evening in Moscow elected Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad, 62, to succeed the late Patriarch Alexi II as the head of the Russian Orthodox Church.
The new Patriarch's challenge: to deepen the Church's influence inside Russia, and to widen its presence outside Russia.
Kirill will "certainly" invite Pope Benedict XVI to visit Russia, and increase collaboration with the Roman Catholic Church worldwide, Orthodox sources say.
His election thus opens new perspectives for closer relations between Orthodoxy and Catholicism, the "two lungs," East and West, of a Christianity divided since the Great Schism of 1054.
His election also opens a new era in the post-Soviet period of the Russian nation, its internal life and its relations to the West and the entire world."
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"It is with humility and full understanding of my responsibility that I accept the divine choice through which I am being handed the mission to serve as patriarch," Kirill said after the results of a secret vote were announced. "At the center of this mission is the cross of Christ."
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