Patriarch Pimen I of Moscow

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Pimen
Patriarch of Moscow and all the Rus'
Patriarch Pimen at the Helsinki railway station, 1973
Church	Russian Orthodox Church
See	Moscow
Installed	3 June 1971
Term ended	3 May 1990
Predecessor	Alexy I
Successor	Alexy II
Orders
Ordination	25 January 1932
Consecration	17 November 1957 by Alexy I of Moscow
Personal details
Born	Sergey Mikhailovich Izvekov (1910-07-23)July 23, 1910 Kobylino village, Maloyaroslavetsky Uyezd, Kaluga Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	May 3, 1990(1990-05-03) (aged 79) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Buried	Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius
Nationality	Russian
Denomination	Eastern Orthodox Church
Signature

Patriarch Pimen (Russian: Патриарх Пи́мен, born Sergey Mikhailovich Izvekov, Серге́й Миха́йлович Изве́ков; July 23 [O.S. July 10] 1910 – May 3, 1990), was the 14th Patriarch of Moscow and the primate of the Russian Orthodox Church from 1970 to 1990.