Former Hierarchs of the Patriarchate of Moscow
(in alphabetical order)
His Eminence Gedeon
Metropolitan of Stavropol and Vladikavkaz
- Date of Consecration: October 22, 1967
- Date of Election: 1967
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- Biography
- Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
His Eminence Grigorii
Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod
- Date of Death: November 5, 1955
- Date of Elevation to Metropolitan: September 1945
- Date of Elevation to Archbishop: May 26, 1944
- Date of Consecration: October 14, 1942
- Date of Election: 1942
- Date of Monastic Tonsure: October 13, 1942
- Name Day: October 13
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- Biography
- Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
His Grace Grigorii
Bishop of Omsk and Semipalatinsk
- Date of Death: March 15, 1914
- Date of Consecration: 1891
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- Biography
- Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
His Eminence Gurii
Archbishop of Zhitomir and Novograd-Volyna
- Hierarchical Sees
- Retired (2011-)
- Archbishop of Zhitomir and Novograd-Volyna (2007-2011)
- Bishop of Zhitomir and Novograd-Volyna (1994-2007)
- Date of Elevation to Archbishop: April 21, 2007
- Date of Consecration: July 31, 1994
- Date of Election: 1994
- Date of Elevation to Archimandrite: February 12, 1993
- Date of Elevation to Hegumen: January 19, 1993
- Date of Ordination to the Priesthood: July 28, 1990
- Date of Ordination to the Diaconate: July 15, 1990
- Date of Monastic Tonsure: July 2, 1990
- Name Day: October 17
- Date of Birth: August 11, 1964
- Full Name: Sergei Alexandrovich Kuz'menko
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- Biography
- Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
His Grace Ierofei
Bishop of Balakhninsk,
Vicar of the Diocese of Nizhegorod
- Date of Death: August 14, 2001
- Date of Consecration: July 29, 1991
- Date of Election: 1991
- Date of Monastic Tonsure: 1963
- Name Day: October 17
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- Biography
- Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
His Grace Ieronim
Bishop of Orlov and Livensk
- Date of Consecration: June 2, 2008
- Date of Election: April 15, 2008
- Date of Elevation to Archimandrite: 2003
- Date of Monastic Tonsure: 1990
- Name Day: June 28
- Date of Birth: July 12, 1966
- Full Name: Igor' Anatol'evich Chernyshov
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- Biography
- Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
His Eminence Innokentii
Archbishop of Tashkent and Turkestan
- Date of Death: 1937
- Date of Consecration: 1909
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- Biography
- Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
His Grace Innokentii
Bishop of Konotop and Glukhov
- Date of Consecration: October 5, 1994
- Date of Election: 1994
- Date of Monastic Tonsure: March 25, 1979
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- Biography
- Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
His Eminence Ioann
Archbishop of Riga and All Latvia
- Biography
- Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
His Grace Ippolit
Bishop of Khust and Vinogradov
- Date of Consecration: August 16, 1992
- Date of Election: 1992
- Date of Monastic Tonsure: 1988
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- Biography
- Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
His Eminence Irinei
Metropolitan of Vienna and Austria
- Date of Consecration: January 30, 1966
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- Biography
- Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
His Grace Khariton
Bishop of Kholm
- Date of Death: 1428
- Date of Consecration: 1414
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- Biography
- Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
His Eminence Khrisanf
Metropolitan of Vyatka and Sloboda
- Date of Death: January 4, 2011
- Hierarchical Sees
- Metropolitan of Kivo and Sloboda (2004-2011)
- Archbishop of Kirov and Sloboda (1988-2004)
- Bishop of Kirov and Sloboda (1978-1988)
- Date of Elevation to Metropolitan: February 29, 2004
- Date of Elevation to Archbishop: 1988
- Date of Consecration: April 23, 1978
- Date of Election: 1978
- Date of Elevation to Archimandrite: April 28, 1971
- Date of Monastic Tonsure: March 30, 1971
- Date of Ordination to the Priesthood: March 15, 1970
- Date of Ordination to the Diaconate: July 18, 1967
- Name Day: April 1
- Date of Birth: June 24, 1937
- Full Name: Iakov Antonovich Chepil'
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- Biography
- Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
His Grace Khrisanf
Bishop of Elizavetgrad
- Date of Death: 1906
- Date of Consecration: May 17, 1904
- Date of Monastic Tonsure: 1898
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- Biography
- Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
His Grace Khrisanf
Bishop of Nizhegorod and Arzamass
- Date of Death: November 6, 1883
- Date of Consecration: December 29, 1874
- Date of Monastic Tonsure: September 29, 1857
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- Biography
- Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
His Grace Khrisanf
Vicar Bishop of the Diocese of Perm
- Date of Death: 1930
- Date of Consecration: January 30, 1925
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- Biography
- Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
His Grace Khrisogon
Bishop of Vladimir
- Date of Death: 1938
- Date of Consecration: December 31, 1930
- Date of Monastic Tonsure: 1930
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- Biography
- Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
His Grace Khristofor
Bishop of Sloboda and the Ukraine
- Date of Death: May 18, 1813
- Date of Consecration: April 18, 1798
- Date of Election: 1798
- Date of Monastic Tonsure: 1765
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- Biography
- Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
His Grace Khristofor
Bishop of Vyatka
- Date of Death: August 11, 1872
- Date of Consecration: March 25, 1850
- Date of Election: 1850
- Date of Monastic Tonsure: December 9, 1833
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- Biography
- Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
His Grace Khristofor
Former Bishop of Ufa and Menzelinsk
- Date of Death: After 1918
- Date of Consecration: May 25, 1887
- Date of Election: 1887
- Date of Monastic Tonsure: March 27, 1883
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- Biography
- Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
His Eminence Khrizostom
Metropolitan of Vilnius and All Lithuania
- Hierarchical Sees
- Retired (2010-)
- Metropolitan of Vilnius and All Lithuania (2000-2010)
- Archbishop of Vilnius and All Lithuania (1990-2000)
- Archbishop of Irkutsk and Chitinsk (1984-1990)
- Archbishop of Kursk and Belgorod (1977-1984)
- Bishop of Kursk and Belgorod (1974-1977)
- Bishop of Zaraisk, Vicar of the Diocese of Moscow (1972-1974)
- Date of Elevation to Metropolitan: February 25, 2000
- Date of Elevation to Archbishop: September 2, 1977
- Date of Consecration: April 23, 1972
- Date of Election: 1972
- Date of Elevation to Archimandrite: August 2, 1971
- Date of Ordination to the Priesthood: November 4, 1968
- Date of Monastic Tonsure: October 31, 1966
- Date of Ordination to the Diaconate: September 12, 1964
- Name Day: November 26
- Date of Birth: May 3, 1934
- Full Name: Georgii Fedorovich Martishkin
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- Biography
- Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
His Eminence Konstantin
Archbishop of Brest and Kobrinsk
- Date of Consecration: April 12, 1987
- Date of Election: 1987
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- Biography
- Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
His Eminence Leontii
Metropolitan of Orenburg and Buzuluk
- Date of Consecration: August 10, 1956
- Date of Election: 1956
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- Biography
- Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
His Eminence Makarii
Metropolitan of Vinnitsa and Mogilev-Podol'e
- Date of Elevation to Metropolitan: 2000
- Date of Elevation to Archbishop: 1979
- Date of Consecration: June 7, 1970
- Date of Election: 1970
- Date of Monastic Tonsure: June 7, 1970
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- Biography
- Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
His Eminence Maksim
Archbishop of Mogilev and Mstislav
- Date of Consecration: March 26, 1972
- Date of Election: 1972
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- Biography
- Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
His Grace Mefodii
Bishop of Khust and Vinogradov
- Date of Consecration: July 30, 1994
- Date of Election: 1994
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- Biography
- Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
His Eminence Melkhisedek
Archbishop of Bryansk and Sevsk
- Date of Consecration: June 17, 1965
- Date of Election: 1965
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- Biography
- Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
His Grace Mikhail
Bishop of Kurgan and Shadrinsk
- Date of Consecration: April 3, 1993
- Date of Election: 1993
- Date of Monastic Tonsure: March 30, 1978
- Name Day: November 21
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- Biography
- Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
His Eminence Mikhei
Archbishop of Yaroslavl and Rostov
- Date of Death: October 22, 2005
- Date of Elevation to Archbishop: February 22, 1995
- Date of Consecration: December 17, 1993
- Date of Election: 1993
- Date of Monastic Tonsure: January 1, 1947
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- Biography
- Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
His Eminence Neofit
Archbishop of Kishinev and Moldavia
- Date of Elevation to Archbishop: 1892
- Date of Consecration: 1880
- Date of Monastic Tonsure: 1880
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- Biography
- Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
His Grace Nestor
Bishop of Novgorod and Seversk
- Date of Death: August 19, 1910
- Date of Consecration: April 15, 1901
- Date of Election: February 23, 1901
- Date of Monastic Tonsure: September 16, 1889
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- Biography
- Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
His Eminence Nikolai
Metropolitan of Nizhny Novgorod and Arzamas
- Date of Consecration: September 10, 1961
- Date of Election: 1961
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- Biography
- Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
His Eminence Nikolai
Archbishop of Ramena,
Vicar of the Diocese of Moscow
- Date of Death: August 28, 2008
- Hierarchical Sees
- Archbishop of Ramena, Vicar of the Diocese of Moscow (1996-2008)
- Retired (1986-1996)
- Archbishop of Mozhaisk (1984-1986)
- Bishop of Mozhaisk (1970-1984)
- Bishop of Tokyo and Japan (1967-1970)
- Date of Elevation to Archbishop: 1984
- Date of Consecration: December 10, 1967
- Date of Election: 1967
- Date of Elevation to Archimandrite: August 28, 1966
- Date of Monastic Tonsure: September 1, 1962
- Date of Ordination to the Priesthood: November 1956
- Date of Ordination to the Diaconate: October 1956
- Name Day: December 19
- Date of Birth: November 22, 1914
- Full Name: Peter Sayama
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- Biography
- Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
His Grace Nikon
Bishop of Ekaterinburg and Verkhotursk
- Date of Consecration: July 21, 1993
- Date of Election: 1993
- Name Day: November 30
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- Biography
- Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
His Grace Nikon
Bishop of Tashkent and Turkestan
- Date of Death: June 19, 1897
- Date of Consecration: 1888
- Date of Monastic Tonsure: 1881
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- Biography
- Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
His Eminence Paisii
Archbishop of Orlov and Livensk
- Date of Elevation to Archbishop: February 25, 1996
- Date of Consecration: July 21, 1988
- Date of Election: 1988
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- Biography
- Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
His Eminence Panteleimon
Archbishop of Kirovograd and Novomirgorod
- Hierarchical Sees
- Retirement (2011-)
- Archbishop of Kirovograd and Novomirgorod (2009-2011)
- Bishop of Kirovograd and Novomirgorod (2007-2009)
- Bishop of Kirovograd and Alexandriya (1998-2007)
- Bishop of Brusilovsk, Vicar of the Diocese of Ovruchsk (1995-1998)
- Bishop of Vol'yansk, Vicar of the Diocese of Zaporozhsk (1994-1995)
- Bishop of Glukhov and Konotopsk (1993-1994)
- Bishop of Kitsman, Vicar of the Diocese of Chernovitsy (1992-1993)
- Date of Elevation to Archbishop: July 2009
- Date of Consecration: July 25, 1992
- Date of Election: 1992
- Date of Monastic Tonsure: 1989
- Name Day: August 9
- Date of Birth: May 21, 1952
- Full Name: Pavel Mikhailovich Romanovskii
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- Biography
- Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
His Holiness Pimen
Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus'
- Date of Death : May 3, 1990
- Date of Enthronement as Patriarch: 1971
- Date of Consecration: November 14, 1961
- Date of Election: 1961
- Date of Monastic Tonsure: December 5, 1925
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- Biography
- Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
His Eminence Pitirim
Metropolitan of Volokolamsk and Yuriev
- Date of Death: November 4, 2003
- Date of Elevation to Metropolitan: 1986
- Date of Elevation to Archbishop: 1971
- Date of Consecration: May 23, 1963
- Date of Election: 1963
- Date of Elevatio to Archimandrite: October 8, 1959
- Date of Monastic Tonsure: Aprili 13, 1959
- Date of Ordination to the Priesthood: December 4, 1954
- Date of Ordination to the Diaconate: February 15, 1952
- Name Day: August 10
- Date of Birth: January 8, 1926
- Full Name: Konstantin Vladimirovich Nechaev
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- Biography
- Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
His Eminence Serafim
Archbishop of Penza and Kuznetsy
- Date of Consecration: October 18, 1978
- Date of Election: 1978
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- Biography
- Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
His Grace Serafim
Bishop of Severodonetsk and Starobel'sk
- Hierarchical Sees
- Retired (2007-)
- bishop of Severodonetsk and Starobel'sk (2007)
- Bishop of Belotserkov and Boguslav (1994-2007)
- Date of Consecration: August 1, 1994
- Date of Election: 1994
- Date of Monastic Tonsure: July 31, 1994
- Date of Ordination to the Priesthood: May 30, 1985
- Date of Ordination to the Diaconate: February 24, 1985
- Date of Birth: January 16, 1953
- Date of Name: Vasilii Fedorovich Zaliznitskii
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- Biography
- Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
His Eminence Serapion
Metropolitan of Tula and Belev
- Date of Consecration: March 5, 1972
- Date of Election: 1972
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- Biography
- Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
His Holiness Sergii
Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus'
- Date of Death : May 15, 1944
- Hierarchical Sees
- Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' (1943-1944)
- Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna (1934-1943)
- Deputy of the Patriarchal Locum tenens (1926-1934)
- No See (1926-1934)
- Deputy of the Patriarchal Locum tenens (1925-1926)
- Metropolitan of Nizhegorod (1924-1926)
- No See (1922-1924)
- Metropolitan of Vladimir and Shuisk (1917-1922)
- Archbishop of Vladimir and Shuisk (1917)
- Archbishop of Finland and Vyborg (1901-1917)
- Bishop of Yamburg, Vicar of the Diocese of Saint Petersburg (1901)
- Date of Enthronement as Patriarch: August 30(o.s.), 1943
- Date of Election as Patriarch: August 26(o.s.), 1943
- Date of Elevation to Metropolitan: November 28, 1917
- Date of Elevation to Archbishop: October 6, 1901
- Date of Consecration: February 25, 1901
- Date of Election: 1901
- Date of Monastic Tonsure: February 25, 1901
- Date of Elevation to Archimandrite: September 21, 1894
- Date of Ordination to the Priesthood: April 21, 1890
- Date of Birth: January 11, 1867
- Full Name: Ivan Nikolaevich Stragorodskii
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- Biography
- Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
His Grace Sergii
Bishop of Novosibirsk and Berdsk
- Date of Consecration: December 10, 1995
- Date of Election: 1995
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- Biography
- Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
His Eminence Simon
Archbishop of Ryazan and Kasimov
- Date of Consecration: October 14, 1972
- Date of Election: 1972
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- Biography
- Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
His Eminence Sofoniya
Archbishop of Tashkent and Turkestan
- Date of Death: November 26, 1877
- Date of Elevation to Archbishop: 1877
- Date of Consecration: 1865
- Date of Monastic Tonsure: 1827
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- Biography
- Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
His Eminence Sofronii
Archbishop of Kemerovo and Novokuznetsy
- Date of Death: March 31, 2008
- Hierarchical Sees
- Archbishop of Kemerovo and Novokuznetsy (1998-)
- Bishop of Kemerovo and Novokuznetsy (1993-1998)
- Bishop of Tomsk, Vicar of the Diocese of Novosibirsk (1991-1993)
- Date of Elevation to Archbishop: February 25, 1998
- Date of Consecration: May 16, 1991
- Date of Election: 1991
- Date of Elevation to Archimandrite: May 12, 1991
- Date of Monastic Tonsure: May 12, 1991
- Date of Ordination to the Priesthood: March 22, 1964
- Date of Ordination to the Diaconate: March 21, 1964
- Date of Birth: October 3, 1930
- Full Name: Dmitrii Ivanovich Bud'ko
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- Biography
- Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
His Grace Tikhon
Bishop of Arkhangelsk and Kholmogorsk
- Date of Death: October 20, 2010
- Date of Consecration: February 4, 1996
- Date of Election: 1996
- Date of Elevation to Archimandrite: December 1995
- Date of Elevation to Hegumen: June 16, 1992
- Date of Ordination to the Priesthood: September 1, 1991
- Date of Ordination to the Diaconate: August 29, 1991
- Date of Monastic Tonsure: August 28, 1991
- Date of Birth: March 2, 1963
- Full Name: Nikolai Vladimirovich Stepanov
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- Biography
- Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
His Eminence Vasilii
Archbishop of Brussels and Belgium
- Date of Death: September 22, 1985
- Date of Consecration: 1959
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- Biography
- Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
His Eminence Vasilii
Archbishop of Kirovograd and Aleksandriya
- Date of Consecration: October 1, 1989
- Date of Election: 1989
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- Biography
- Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
His Eminence Vasilii
Archbishop of Zaporozhsk and Melitopol
- Hierarchical Sees
- Retired (2009-)
- Archbishop of Zaporozhsk and Melitopol (1997-2009)
- Bishop of Zaporozhsk and Melitopol (1992-1997)
- Bishop of Simferopol' and the Crimea (1990-1992)
- Date of Elevation to Archbishop: 1997
- Date of Consecration: December 2, 1990
- Date of Election: 1990
- Date of Elevation to Archimandrite: 1989
- Date of Monastic Tonsure: February 13, 1979
- Date of Ordination to the Priesthood: July 12, 1957
- Date of Ordination to the Diaconate: February 26, 1956
- Name Day: March 13
- Date of Birth: November 12, 1932
- Full Name: Boris Iosifovich Zlatolinskii
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- Biography
- Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
His Grace Viktor
Bishop of Podol'e,
Vicar of the Diocese of Moscow
- Date of Consecration: March 25, 1990
- Date of Election: 1990
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- Biography
- Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
His Eminence Viktor
Archbishop of Krasnodar
- Date of Elevation to Archbishop: 1937
- Date of Consecration: October 21, 1932
- Date of Election: 1932
- Date of Monastic Tonsure: June 20, 1921
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- Biography
- Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
His Eminence Yuvenalii
Former Schema-Metropolitan of Kursk and Belgorod
- Hierarchical Sees
- Retired (2004-)
- Metropolitan of Kursk and Belgorod (2000-2004)
- Archbishop of Kursk and Belgorod (1984-2000)
- Archbishop of Irkutsk and Chitinsk (1982-1984)
- Bishop of Voronezh and Lipetsk (1975-1982)
- Date of Great Schema: 2004
- Date of Elevation to Metropolitan: February 25, 2000
- Date of Elevation to Archbishop: July 16, 1982
- Date of Consecration: November 16, 1975
- Date of Election: 1975
- Date of Elevation to Archimandrite: November 1975
- Date of Monastic Tonsure: June 26, 1968
- Date of Ordination to the Priesthood: August 4, 1953
- Date of Ordination to the Diaconate: August 2, 1953
- Name Day: October 24
- Date of Birth: April 29, 1929
- Full Name: Spiridon Alexeevich Tarasov
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- Biography
- Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
His Eminence Yuvenalii
Archbishop of Izhevsk and Udmurtia
- Date of Death: December 28, 1958
- Date of Elevation to Archbishop: June 3, 1948
- Date of Consecration: February 16, 1935
- Date of Election: 1935
- Date of Monastic Tonsure: July 2, 1900
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- Biography
- Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
His Eminence Yuvenalii
Archbishop of Vilnius and Lithuania
- Date of Death: April 12, 1904
- Date of Elevation to Archbishop: March 7, 1898
- Date of Consecration: October 25, 1892
- Date of Election: 1892
- Date of Monastic Tonsure: April 29, 1855
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- Biography
- Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
His Grace Yuvenalii
Bishop of Bryansk
- Date of Consecration: April 12, 1920
- Date of Election: 1920
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- Biography
- Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
His Grace Yuvenalii
Bishop of Orlov and Sevsk
- Date of Death: December 31, 1882
- Hierarchical Sees
- Bishop of Orlov and Sevsk (1876-1882)
- Bishop of Arkhangelsk and Kholmogorsk (1871-1876)
- Bishop of Mikhailovsk (1868-1871)
- Date of Consecration: October 6, 1868
- Date of Election: 1868
- Date of Elevation to Archimandrite: 1859
- Date of Monastic Tonsure: February 12, 1844
- Date of Ordination to the Priesthood: 1840
- Date of Birth: 1816
- Full Name: Grigorii Ivanovich Karyukov
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- Biography
- Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
His Grace Zosima
Bishop of Yakutsk and Lensk
- Date of Death: May 9, 2010
- Date of Consecration: September 27, 2004
- Date of Elevation to Archimandrite: August 28, 2004
- Date of Election: August 17, 2004
- Date of Elevation to Hegumen: September 12, 2003
- Date of Ordination to the Priesthood: December 13, 1992
- Date of Ordination to the Diaconate: April 1992
- Date of Monastic Tonsure: December 16, 1991
- Date of Birth: September 12, 1963
- Full Name: Igor' Vasil'evich Davydov
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