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Current Hierarchs of the Russian Orthodox Church
(In order of seniority)



His Eminence Vissarion
Archbishop of Ovruchsk and Korostena
 
Date of Elevation to Archbishop: November 23, 2000
Date of Consecration: August 24, 1992
Date of Election: 1992
Date of Monastic Tonsure: April 1, 1983
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 

His Eminence Pitirim
Archbishop of Nikolaevsk and Voznesensk
 
Date of Elevation to Archbishop: November 23, 2000
Date of Consecration: August 26, 1992
Date of Election: 1992
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 

His Eminence Avgustin
Archbishop of Lvov and Galicia
 
Date of Consecration: September 20, 1992
Date of Monastic Tonsure: September 20, 1992
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 
 

His Eminence Veniamin
Archbishop of Vladivostok and Primore
 
Date of Consecration: September 21, 1992
Date of Election: 1992
Date of Monastic Tonsure: September 13, 1992
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 

His Eminence Iona
Archbishop of Astrakhan and Enotaev
 
Date of Elevation to Archbishop: February 25, 2002
Date of Consecration: October 25, 1992
Date of Elecration: 1992
Date of Consecration: September 21, 1965
Name Day: June 28
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters

His Eminence German
Archbishop of Kursk and Rylsk
 
Date of Elevation to Archbishop: February 25, 2000
Date of Consecration: March 28, 1993
Date of Election: 1993
Date of Monastic Tonsure: March 8, 1984
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters

His Eminence Ioann
Archbishop of Belgorod and Starooskolsk
 
Date of Elevation to Archbishop: February 18, 1999
Date of Consecration: April 4, 1993
Date of Election: 1993
Date of Monastic Tonsure: March 30, 1990
Name Day: June 23
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters

His Eminence Maksimilian
Archbishop of Vologoda and Velikoustyug
 
Date of Elevation to Archbishop: February 24, 2004
Date of Consecration: April 10, 1993
Date of Election: 1993
Date of Monastic Tonsure: October 26, 1984
Name Day: November 4
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters

His Eminence Panteleimon
Archbishop of Maikop and Adygei
 
Date of Consecration: May 2, 1993
Date of Election: 1993
Name Day: August 9
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 

His Eminence Ioann
Archbishop of Ioshkar-Olinsk and Mariisk
 
Date of Elevation to Archbishop: February 29, 2004
Date of Consecration: July 25, 1993
Date of Election: 1993
Date of Monastic Tonsure: April 23, 1989
Name Day: May 21
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters

His Eminence Simon
Archbishop of Murmansk and Monchegorsk
 
Date of Consecration: October 3, 1993
Date of Election: 1993
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 
 

His Eminence Anatolii
Archbishop of Sarnensk and Polessk
 
Date of Consecration: October 28, 1993
Date of Election: 1993
Date of Monastic Tonsure: 1992
Name Day: July 16
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 
 
 

His Eminence Rostislav
Archbishop of Tomsk and Asinov
 
Date of Elevation to Archbishop: February 29, 2004
Date of Consecration: November 28, 1993
Date of Election: 1993
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 
 

His Eminence Evgenii
Archbishop of Vereisk
 
Date of Elevation to Archbishop: February 25, 2000
Date of Consecration: April 16, 1994
Date of Election: 1994
Date of Monastic Tonsure: August 27, 1986
Name Day: March 20
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters

Gurii
His Eminence Gurii
Archbishop of Zhitomir and Novograd-Volyna
 
Date of Consecration: July 31, 1994
Date of Election: 1994
Date of Monastic Tonsure: July 2, 1990
Name Day: October 17
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 
 
 
 

His Eminence Aleksii
Archbishop of Orekhovo-Zuevsk
 
Date of Consecration: August 19, 1995
Date of Monastic Tonsure: March 25, 1979
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 
 

Yustinian
His Eminence Yustinian
Archbishop of Tiraspol and Dubossarsk,
Vicar of the Diocese of Kishinev
 
Date of Elevation to Archbishop: February 25, 2008
Date of Consecration: September 1, 1995
Date of Election: 1995
Name Day: November 27
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 

His Eminence Mark
Archbishop of Khabarovsk and Priamura
 
Date of Consecration: September 3, 1995
Date of Election: July 16, 1995
Name Day: January 17
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 

His Eminence Zosima
Archbishop of Elistina and Kalmyka
 
Date of Elevation to Archbishop: February 24, 2006
Date of Consecration: December 24, 1995
Date of Election: 1995
Date of Monastic Tonsure: August 21, 1987
Name Day: August 21
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters

His Eminence Simeon
Archbishop of Vinnitsk and Podole
 
Date of Elevation to Archbishop: May 14, 2002
Date of Consecration: May 4, 1996
Date of Election: 1996
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 
 

His Eminence Gurii
Archbishop of Novogrudsk and Lidsk
 
Date of Consecration: August 4, 1996
Date of Election: 1996
Date of Monastic Tonsure: June 20, 1985
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 

His Eminence Efrem
Archbishop of Krivorozh and Nikopol
 
Date of Consecration: September 13, 1996
Date of Election: 1996
Date of Monastic Tonsure: September 25, 1992
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 

His Eminence Ioann
Archbishop of Kherson and Tavricheskii
 
Date of Elevation to Archbishop: November 22, 2000
Date of Consecration: December 13, 1996
Date of Election: 1996
Date of Monastic Tonsure: December 31, 1993
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 

His Eminence Pavel
Archbishop of Vyshgorod
 
Date of Elevation to Archbishop: July 9, 2003
Date of Consecration: April 19, 1997
Date of Election: 1997
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 
 

His Eminence Feodosii
Archbishop of Polotsk and Gluboksk
 
Date of Consecration: April 19, 1997
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 
 

His Eminence Kirill
Archbishop of Yaroslavl and Rostov
 
Date of Elevation to Archbishop: February 25, 2003
Date of Consecration: March 15, 1998
Date of Election: 1998
Date of Monastic Tonsure: October 25, 1980
Name Day: June 22
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters

His Eminence Ignatii
Archbishop of Petropavlovsk and Kamchatka
 
Date of Consecration: March 29, 1998
Date of Election: 1998
Name Day : May 13
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 

His Eminence Onufrii
Archbishop of Izyumsk
 
Date of Consecration: April 22, 2000
Date of Election: 2000
Date of Monastic Tonsure: April 20, 2000
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 

His Eminence Mitrofan
Archbishop of Belotserkov and Boguslav
 
Date of Consecration: July 9, 2003
Date of Consecration: July 30, 2000
Date of Election: 2000
Date of Monastic Tonsure: August 21, 1990
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 

His Eminence Feofan
Archbishop of Stavropol' and Vladikavkaz
 
Date of Consecration: November 26, 2000
Date of Monastic Tonsure: December 19, 1973
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 
 
 

His Eminence Vladimir
Archbishop of Pochaev
 
Date of Consecration: December 3, 2000
Date of Election: 2000
Date of Monastic Tonsure: 1983
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 
 

His Eminence Filipp
Archbishop of Poltava and Kremenchug
 
Date of Consecration: December 30, 2001
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 
 
 

His Eminence Georgii
Archbishop of Nizhny Novgorod and Arzamas
 
Date of Elevation to Archbishop: February 24, 2006
Date of Consecration: February 2, 2003
Date of Monastic Tonsure: December 22, 1989
Name Day: May 6
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters

Luka
His Eminence Luka
Archbishop of Konotopsk and Glukhov
 
Date of Consecration: November 12, 2005
Date of Election: 2005
Date of Monastic Tonsure: December 25, 2003
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 
 
 
 

Daniel
His Grace Daniel
Bishop of Erie
 
Date of Consecration: August 14, 1988
Name Day: December 30
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 
 
 
 
 

His Grace Petr
Bishop of Drutskii,
Vicar of the Diocese of Vitebsk
 
Date of Consecration: July 24, 1992
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 
 

His Grace Panteleimon
Bishop of Kirovograd and Alexandriya
 
Date of Consecration: July 25, 1992
Date of Election: 1992
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 
 
 

His Grace Gurii
Bishop of Magadan and Sinegorsk
 
Date of Consecration: January 14, 1993
Date of Monastic Tonsure: October 5, 1985
Name Day: October 17
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 
 
 
 

Evtikhii
His Grace Evtikhii
Bishop of Domodedov
 
Date of Consecration: July 24, 1994
Name Day: September 6
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 
 
 
 
 

His Grace Savva
Bishop of Krasnogorsk,
Vicar of the Diocese of Moscow
 
Date of Consecration: September 12, 1995
Name Day : February 1
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 

His Grace Pitirim
Bishop of Sytyvkar and Vorkutinsk
 
Date of Consecration: December 19, 1995
Date of Election: 1995
Name Day: February 11
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 

His Grace Tikhon
Bishop of Arkhangelsk and Kholmogorsk
 
Date of Consecration: February 14, 1996
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 
 
 

His Grace Artemii
Bishop of Grodnen and Volkovyssk
 
Date of Consecration: February 4, 1996
Date of Monastic Tonsure: January 3, 1996
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 
 
 
 
 

His Grace Nikon
Bishop of Lipetsk and Eletsk
 
Date of Consecration: March 31, 1996
Date of Monastic Tonsure: March 21, 1980
Name Day: April 5
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 
 




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