January 1994. Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad consecrating the Cathedral of the Rising of the Cross in Kaliningrad.

16.01.1994#371133

January 1994. Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad consecrating the Cathedral of the Rising of the Cross in Kaliningrad.

16.01.1994#371132

Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad during a Divine Liturgy in Smolensk's Dormition Cathedral.

29.06.1991#370818

Metropolitan Cyrill (right) of Kaliningrad and Smolensk participating in the ceremony of laying the first stone in the foundation of the future St.Andrew the Apostle Church.

29.10.2005#370771

Russian first president Boris Yeltsin (center, foreground) and Metropolitan Cyrill (to the right of the president) of Kaliningrad and Smolensk laying the capsule in the foundation of the future Christ the Savior Cathedral in Kaliningrad

23.06.1996#370761

Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad during the opening of an orthodox temple in a penal colony in the Kaliningrad Region.

05.05.2000#370760

Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy (standing, center) and Metropolitan of Kaliningrad and Smolensk Cyrill (on the left hand of the Patriarch) attending the world Russian people's Council "Russia on the Eve of the 2000th Anniversary of Christianity: Faith. People. Power".

06.12.1999#370738

From left: Metropolitan of Kaliningrad and Smolensk Cyrill, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II, apostolic administrator Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz for the Roman Catholics of the European part of Russia and Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov attending the opening ceremony of the jubilee international multi-confessional conference dedicated to the 2000th anniversary of the Advent of the Savior to this world.

23.11.1999#370737

Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad, foreground, during the celebration of his 60th birthday.

18.11.2006#370731

Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad, right, foreground, during the consecration of an orthodox chapel on board the training tall ship "Kruzenshtern."

01.03.2008#370730

Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad, who heads the Russian Orthodox Church's External Relations Department, during hearings in the State Duma, entitled "Legislative maintenance of relations between the state and the Church in the light of the social conception of the Russian Orthodox Church."

06.07.2001#370729

From right: Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad, who heads the Russian Orthodox Church's External Relations Department, and Russia's Chief Rabbi Berl Lazar.

28.01.2004#370728

Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad, right, during the consecration of an orthodox chapel on board the training tall ship "Kruzenshtern."

01.03.2008#370718

Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad, foreground, during the consecration of an orthodox chapel on board the training tall ship "Kruzenshtern."

01.03.2008#370717

From left, foreground: Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Russia, and Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad touring the Christ the Savior Cathedral in Kaliningrad.

10.09.2006#370716

From left: Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Russia, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad touring the Christ the Savior Cathedral in Kaliningrad.

10.09.2006#370674

Center, from left: Russian President Vladimir Putin and Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad touring the Christ the Savior Cathedral in Kaliningrad.

10.09.2006#370673

Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad during the consecration of the first Russian-Belarusian orthodox temple in the village of Beregovoye in the Kaliningrad Region.

08.06.2003#370672

Metropolitan of Smolensk and Kaliningrad Kirill said during a news conference given by presidium members of the Interfaith Council of Russia and dediicated to its fifth anniversary and the upcoming 2nd Interfaith Peace Forum, that the Council advocated Orthodox culture classes in secular schools.

29.01.2004#145522

Cyril the Metropolitan of Smolensk and Kaliningrad, head of the Moscow Patriarchate External Church Relations Department, at the first World Summit of Religious Leaders, Moscow

03.07.2006#129987

Metropolitan Kirill, head of the Foreign Church Relations Department of the Moscow Patriarchate, in the St.Daniel Monastery in Moscow.

28.10.2005#120246

Metropolitan of Smolensk and Kaliningrad Cyrill (right) and Moscow Patriarchate administration manager Metropolitan of Kaluga and Borovsk Kliment.

11.06.2004#109746