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

[Additional Hierarchs]
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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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