Putin said that he is connected with the father of Patriarch Kirill
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Russian President Vladimir Putin said that he is connected with the father of Patriarch Kirill, Mikhail Gundyaev. According to Putin, Father Mikhail baptized him.
On Friday, Putin visited the Resurrection Cathedral and the Museum of the Russian Patriarchate in Arzamas after the opening ceremony of a section of the M-12 highway.
“His (the patriarch’s) father baptized me. This is how fate unfolded,” Putin said during a visit to the cathedral.
Patriarch Kirill’s father died in 1974. He was the rector of the Alexander Nevsky Church in Krasnoye Selo, then the rector of the St. Nicholas Church at the Bolsheokhtinskoye cemetery.
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