Getting the parent category of a category

Use the following code to get a Magento categories parent category.

Mage::getSingleton('catalog/layer')->getCurrentCategory()->getParentCategory();

1	Mage::getSingleton('catalog/layer')->getCurrentCategory()->getParentCategory();

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Getting the parent category of a category (Magento 1)