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MOSCOW, December 5 (RIA Novosti) - Patriarch Alexy II, who led the Russian Orthodox Church for 18 years, died at the age of 79 in his residency near the Russian capital on Friday morning, the Moscow Patriarchy said.
MOSCOW -- Russian Patriarch Alexy II, who led the Orthodox Church for 20 years, died aged 79 in his home near Moscow this morning, a Moscow Patriarchy official said.
The Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church gathers for an urgent session in Moscow after the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Alexy II, has died.
Patriarch Alexiy II, the head of Russia's powerful Orthodox Church, has died at his residence at the age of 79, a church spokesman said on Friday.
The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II died Friday morning at age 80, the press service of the Moscow Patriarchy said. The leader of the Russian Orthodox Church died in his residence in the Moscow region.
Patriarch Alexiy II, a conservative who led a revival of Russia's Orthodox Church and opposed Catholic missionary activities in Russia and Ukraine, died on Friday, a church spokesman said. He was 79.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Patriarch Alexiy II, the head of Russia's powerful Orthodox Church, has died at his residence at the age of 79, a church spokesman said on Friday.
MOSCOW, December 5 (RIA Novosti) - Russian Patriarch Alexy II, who led the Orthodox Church for almost 20 years, died at the age of 79 in his residency near the Russian capital on Friday morning, a Moscow Patriarchy official said.
TASS quoted Vladimir Vigilyansky, a spokesman for the Moscow Patriarchy of the Russian Orthodox Church, as saying: "Patriarch Alexiy has died. This happened today in the morning."
YEKATERINBURG, December 5 (RIA Novosti) - A final round of DNA tests has confirmed that the human remains found in the Urals in 1991 belonged to Russia's last tsar, Nicholas II, an American scientist involved in the research said on Friday.
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