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Metropolitan Korniliy (russian: Корнилий, Митрополит Московский и всея Руси),
Metropolitan of Moscow and all Russia Korniliy. A brief biography
(Russian) {{Authority control 1947 births Living people People from Orekhovo-Zuyevo Old Believers Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Old-Rite Church 20th-century Eastern Orthodox Christians 21st-century Eastern Orthodox bishops
secular name
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Konstantin Ivanovich Titov (russian: Константи́н Ива́нович Тито́в); born August 1, 1947, in Orekhovo-Zuyevo
Orekhovo-Zuyevo (russian: Оре́хово-Зу́ево, ) is an industrial city in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located east of Moscow in a forested area on the Klyazma River (a tributary of the Oka). Orekhovo (russian: Оре́хово), often prono ...
, Moscow Oblast
Moscow Oblast ( rus, Моско́вская о́бласть, r=Moskovskaya oblast', p=mɐˈskofskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ), or Podmoskovye ( rus, Подмоско́вье, p=pədmɐˈskovʲjə, literally "under Moscow"), is a federal subject of Rus ...
, Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...
is a Russian Orthodox Old-Rite Church
The Russian Orthodox Old-Rite Church (or Russian Orthodox Oldritualist Church, Russian Orthodox Old-Ritualist Church) (russian: Русская Православная Старообрядческая Церковь) is an Eastern Orthodox Chur ...
bishop
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; Metropolitan
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* Metropolitan area, a region consisting of a densely populated urban core and its less-populated surrounding territories
* Metropolitan borough, a form of local government district in England
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of Moscow and All Rus, Primate of the Russian Orthodox Old-Rite Church
The Russian Orthodox Old-Rite Church (or Russian Orthodox Oldritualist Church, Russian Orthodox Old-Ritualist Church) (russian: Русская Православная Старообрядческая Церковь) is an Eastern Orthodox Chur ...
(since October 18, 2005).
Positions
Cornelius openly supports the2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
On 24 February 2022, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which began in 2014. The invasion has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths on both sides. It has caused Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II. An ...
and endorses the actions of the Russian army. He claimed that in Ukraine people would get killed only for thinking and speaking Russian. Cornelius called on the Ukrainian side to lay down their arms and "stop the genocide, the madness".
References
External links
* Official web site of Russian Orthodox Old-Rite ChurchMetropolitan of Moscow and all Russia Korniliy. A brief biography
(Russian) {{Authority control 1947 births Living people People from Orekhovo-Zuyevo Old Believers Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Old-Rite Church 20th-century Eastern Orthodox Christians 21st-century Eastern Orthodox bishops