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<text id=90TT1259>
<title>
May 14, 1990: Died:Patriarch Pimen
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
May 14, 1990 Sakharov Memoirs
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
MILESTONES, Page 82
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<body>
<p> DIED. Patriarch Pimen, 79, politically accommodating head
of the Russian Orthodox Church who presided over the faith's
revival after decades of repression; in Moscow. As Patriarch
of Moscow and All Russia, Pimen led millions of believers in
a country that was officially atheist. After a historic meeting
with Mikhail Gorbachev in 1988, on the 1,000th anniversary of
the birth of Russian and Ukrainian Christianity, Pimen praised
the Soviet leader's efforts to grant more religious freedom.
The following year Pimen was chosen to serve in the Soviet
parliament. Critics hope that his successor, as yet unnamed,
will be the first Soviet religious leader to be independent of
secular authority.
</p>
</body>
</article>
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