The name '''Alexis''' or '''Alexios''' comes from the Greek ''alexis'', from ''alexein'' meaning "to ward off, keep, protect." Other variations include Alexius, Aleksi, Alexis, Alexei, Alexey, and Alexy.

== Current hierarchs ==

*His Holiness Patriarch [[Alexei II (Ridiger) of Moscow]] (b. 1929)

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