Background
Pimen, Patriarch was born in 1910 in Bogorodsk, Moscow.
Pimen, Patriarch was born in 1910 in Bogorodsk, Moscow.
Monk, 1927; ordained priest, 1932. Bishop Odessa, 1957; archbishop Leningrad, 1960—1963, Krutitsky & Kolomna, 1963—1971. Patriarch Metropolitan Moscow & All Russia, 1971—1990.