Pimen Georgescu
Pimen (Russian Пи́мен, Пими́н) ( gr , ποιμήν — shepherd) is a Greek male given name. Used by Russian Orthodox church monastics. It may refer to: * Pimen, Metropolitan of Moscow, aka Pimen the Greek, Metropolitan of Moscow from 1382-1384 * Patriarch Pimen I, (1910 – 1990), 14th Patriarch of Moscow and the head of the Russian Orthodox Church * Pimen Orlov Pimen Nikitich Orlov (Russian: Пи́мен Ники́тич Орлóв; 1812, near Malo-Foshchevaty, Ostrogozhsky Uyezd, Voronezh Governorate — 6 October 1865, Rome) was a Russian painter in the Classical style. He worked in a wide variety o ...

Pimen, Metropolitan Of Moscow
Metropolitan Pimen (known as Pimen the Greek, russian: Пимен Грек) was the Metropolitan of Kiev and all Rus' from June 1380 until he was deposed in 1384. At the same time, Cyprian, Metropolitan of Kiev was alive and claimed the same title. Biography Pimen was the hegumen of the in Pereiaslavl-Zalesskii. In 1379, the Grand Prince of Moscow, Dmitry sent him to Constantinople with his nominee for the metropolitanate, the , where the latter was to be consecrated by the Ecumenical Patriarch. Mitya, sometimes referred to as Mikhail, was a secular (non-monastic) priest and Namestnik (vicar) of the late Metropolitan Alexius of Kiev (in office: 1354 to 1378) as well as the ''Pechatnik'' ( carrier of the seal) of the Grand Prince.John Meyendorff, ''Byzantium and The Rise of Russia'' (Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir's Seminary, 1989). Mitya, however, died (1379) within sight of Constantinople and was buried at Galata (a Genoese possession north of the Golden Horn). Patriarch Nilus ...
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Patriarch Pimen I
Patriarch Pimen (russian: Патриарх Пи́мен, born Sergey Mikhailovich Izvekov, ; – May 3, 1990), was the 14th Patriarch of Moscow and the head of the Russian Orthodox Church from 1970 to 1990. Biography He was born to a pious family in 1910 in the village of Kobylino, Maloyaroslavetsky Uyezd, Kaluga Governorate (now Maloyaroslavetsky District, Kaluga Oblast). Soon the family moved to the Bogorodsk (now Noginsk, Moscow oblast). On December 5, 1925, he tonsured a riassophore monk (similar to temporary vows) at Sretensky Monastery in Moscow. however, he stayed in this monastery for only about a month and left it due to the fact that the abbot of the monastery, Bishop Boris (Rukin), went schism, retaining the monastery property to himself. On October 4, 1927, at the age of seventeen, he took eternal monastic vows with the name Pimen in honor of St. Poemen the Great in the Hermitage of the Holy Paraclete, a skete of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra. On July 16, 1930, he was ...
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