Scary if this report MEANT Alexei the former "patriarch", who formalized the 2007 union of MP and a once-free Rocor !
I hope and pray that it's the great Miracle-worker, St Alexey, Metropolitan of Moscow, whose relics lie in the Yelohovsky Cathedral. I venerated those myself. But we all get touchy about that cathedral because Met Sergius of Sergianism ill-fame is ALSO buried there, on the left as I recall.
Maybe someone can enlighten me if Pat Alexei [Ridiger] was entombed some other place. That would clarify this alarming ambiguity. Surely the text was meant to convey St Alexey, Metropolitan of Moscow.
But why would it be written "and all Russia" - that was the red flag....
"On Saturday, January 31, 2015, with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, His Grace Bishop Nicholas of Manhattan, Vice Secretary of the Synod of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, officiated at all-night vigil at Epiphany Cathedral in Elokhovo, Moscow, on the Eve of the Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee. After venerating the relics of St Alexey of Moscow and All Russia, the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God and other relics, His Grace prayed at vespers and then emerged from the altar for polyeleos. After the reading of the Gospel and the singing of "Open the doors to repentance, o Giver of Life," Vladyka Nicholas anointed the multitude of worshipers."
