Thousands bid farewell to Russian patriarch

2008/12/07 07:53:37 @Reuters: International News

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Orthodox Christians flocked to pay tribute to Patriarch Alexiy II on Sunday as he lay in state in a Moscow cathedral, thanking him for the revival of the faith after decades of communist repression. Alexiy II, enthroned in 1990 a year before the demise of the Soviet Union, died of heart failure on Friday. He was 79.
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