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[[Image:Patriarch-Alexei I.jpg|frame|Patriarch Alexei I]]
'''Patriarch Alexei I '''(Sergey Simansky) (Russian: Патриарх Алексий I (Сергей Симанский) ([[October 27]], 1877 – [[April 17]], 1970), was the 14th [[List of primates of Russia|Patriarch of Moscow]] and all of Russia, head of the [[Russian Orthodox Church]] between 1945 and 1970.
Born in Moscow to a noble family, his father was a Russian Royal House Chamberlain. In 1899 graduated from Moscow Imperial University with a law degree; was conscripted by the army and served in a grenadier regiment. In 1902 enrolled at Moscow Theological Academy and by 1906 became [[archimandrite]] and rector of [[W:Tula, Russia|Tula]] seminary.
