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New Orthodox leader enthroned

(1 Feb 2009) 1. Exterior of Christ the Saviour Cathedral UPSOUND: bells 2. Mid of Patriarch Kirill arriving, bishops greeting him 3. Mid of Kirill walking up steps 4. Wide high shot of cathedral interior 5. Robe placed over Kirill's head 6. Various of ceremony 7. Mid of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, his wife Svetlana Medvedeva and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, his wife Lyudmila Putin 8. Various of ceremony 9. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Kirill, Patriarch of All Russia: I thank all those who gathered here to pray. I hope that your prayers and support, as well as the prayers of the whole church, for me will never wane." 10. Wide of cathedral 11. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Dmitry Medvedev, President of Russia: (wide) "This is a very important event for our country and for all orthodox people. (switch to close up) This is an event which opens a new level of development of Orthodoxy in our country and creates, we hope, new conditions for a full-fledged dialogue of solidarity - as you've just said - between the Russian Orthodox Church and the state." 12. Wide of cathedral STORYLINE A new patriarch took charge of the Russian Orthodox Church on Sunday to become the first leader of the world's largest Orthodox church to be installed after the Soviet Union's fall. Kirill, a veteran church diplomat and cautious advocate of change, became the 16th patriarch in a solemn ceremony at Christ the Saviour Cathedral, Moscow's most opulent church and itself a symbol of the rebirth of the Orthodox faith. The original 19th-century church was dynamited under Soviet dictator Josef Stalin in 1931, but rebuilt in the late 1990s following the collapse of the officially atheist Soviet Union. The cathedral was filled with ancient chants, incense smoke and worshippers holding candles for the three-and-a-half-hour ceremony in which Kirill, 62, went through several changes of elaborate vestments. Top clerics, as well as President Dmitry Medvedev, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and scores of other officials from Russia and abroad attended the ceremony. "This is an event which opens a new level of development of Orthodoxy in our country and creates, we hope, new conditions for a full-fledged dialogue of solidarity between the Russian Orthodox Church and the state," Medvedev said at the end of the ceremony, which state TV broadcast live. Kirill was elected on Tuesday by a church council of top clerics, monks and lay electors, including government officials and businessmen. Kirill, the former head of the church's foreign relations department, succeeded Patriarch Alexy II, who died in early December after almost two decades at the helm. Alexy, the church's first post-Soviet leader, led his institution during an era when millions of Russians returned to their historic faith. The church now claims 100 (m) million believers in Russia, the former Soviet republics and across the globe. But polls show only about five percent of Russians are observant believers, and only 30 percent of the population believe they should follow the moral teachings of the church. Kirill, who had long been Alexy's deputy, has been critical of tolerance of homosexuality, abortion, multiparty democracy and the division of secular and religious authority. He adheres to nationalist ideas about Russia's role in the world and supports the idea that Russian civilisation is fundamentally different and opposed to Western concepts. He has repeatedly advocated expanding the church's outreach to younger and wider audiences, and has long pushed for introduction of Orthodox religious classes in schools. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...