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Current Hierarchs of the Orthodox Church in America
(In order of seniority)


Metropolitan Jonah
His Beatitude Jonah
Archbishop of Washington
Metropolitan of All America and Canada
 
Date of Enthronement: December 28, 2008
Date of Election as Metropolitan: November 13, 2008
Date of Consecration: November 1, 2008
Date of Election: September 4, 2008
Date of Monastic Tonsure: 1995
Name Day: June 15
 
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 

His Eminence Nathaniel
Archbishop of Detroit and the Romanian Episcopate
 
Date of Consecration: November 15, 1980
Name Day: April 22
 
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 
 
 

His Eminence Job
Archbishop of Chicago and the Midwest
 
Date of Consecration: January 29, 1983
Name Day: October 28
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 
Articles
 

His Eminence Seraphim
Archbishop of Ottawa and Canada
 
Date of Consecration: June 13, 1987
Name Day: December 4
 
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 
Articles
     Renewal

His Grace Nikon
Bishop of Boston, New England and the Albanian Archdiocese
 
Date of Consecration: May 25, 2002
Date of Election: April 3, 2002
Name Day: March 23
 
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 
 
 

His Grace Tikhon
Bishop of Philadelphia and Eastern Pennsylvania
 
Date of Consecration: February 14, 2004
Date of Election: October 2003
Name Day: October 9
 
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 
 
 
 

His Grace Benjamin
Bishop of San Francisco and the West
 
Date of Consecration: May 1, 2004
Date of Election: March 2004
Name Day : July 31
 
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 
 
 
 

His Grace Alejo
Bishop of Mexico City,
Exarch of Mexico
 
Date of Consecration: May 28, 2005
Date of Election: 2005
Name Day : March 17
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 
 
 

Bishop Melchisedek
His Grace Melchisedek
Bishop of Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania
 
Date of Consecration: June 27, 2009
Date of Election: April 2, 2009
Date of Monastic Tonsure:
 
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 
 
 
 

His Grace Irineu
Bishop of Dearborn Heights
 
Date of Consecration: November 2, 2002
Date of Election: July 24, 2002
Name Day : August 23
 
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 
 
 



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