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

	His Grace Gabriel
	Bishop of Montreal
	Date of Consecration: July 7, 1996
	Date of Election: 1996
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Grace Michael
	Bishop of Geneva and Western Europe
	Date of Consecration: July 12, 1996
	Date of Election: 1996
	Name Day: November 21
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Grace Iov
	Bishop of Kashira,
	Administrator of the Parishes in Canada
	Date of Consecration: April 19, 1997
	Date of Election: 1997
	Date of Monastic Tonsure: April 17, 1997
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Grace Ionafan
	Bishop of Abakan and Kyzylsk
	Date of Consecration: August 1, 1997
	Date of Election: 1997
	Date of Consecration: December 25, 1989
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Grace Amvrosii
	Bishop of Chernigov and Nezhinsk
	Date of Consecration: June 28, 1998
	Date of Election: 1998
	Date of Monastic Tonsure: June 28, 1998
	Name Day: October 23
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Grace Iosif
	Bishop of Ivanovo-Voznesensk and Kineshema
	Date of Consecration: September 8, 1998
	Date of Monastic Tonsure: August 1, 1991
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Grace Anatolii
	Bishop of Kagula and Lapushnyansk
	Date of Consecration: September 12, 1998
	Date of Monastic Tonsure: August 28, 1998
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Grace Agapit
	Bishop of Severodonetsk and Starobelsk
	Date of Consecration: November 22, 1998
	Date of Monastic Tonsure: 1985
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Grace Aleksandr
	Bishop of Baku and the Caspian
	Date of Consecration: January 14, 1999
	Date of Monastic Tonsure: 1975
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Grace Iosif
	Bishop of Birobidzhan and Kuldursk
	Date of Consecration: January 31, 1999
	Date of Monastic Tonsure: March 5, 1979
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Grace Tikhon
	Bishop of Vidnovsk
	Date of Consecration: August 10, 1999
	Name Day: October 9
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Grace Seraphim
	Bishop of Sendai
	Date of Consecration: January 15, 2000
	Name Day: January 15
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Grace Evstafii
	Bishop of Chitinsk and Zabaikal
	Date of Consecration: January 30, 2000
	Date of Monastic Tonsure: December 4, 1980
	Name Day: October 3
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Grace Merkurii
	Bishop of Zaraisk,
	Vicar of the Diocese of Moscow,
	Administrator of Parishes in the USA
	Date of Consecration: February 6, 2000
	Date of Election: 2000
	Date of Monastic Tonsure: March 12, 1988
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Grace Panteleimon
	Bishop of Alexandriisk and Svetlovodsk
	Date of Consecration: December 24, 2000
	Date of Election: 2000
	Date of Monastic Tonsure: January 5, 1986
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Grace Sofronii
	Bishop of Mogilev and Mstislav
	Date of Consecration: February 4, 2001
	Date of Election: 2001
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Grace Agapit
	Bishop of Stuttgart
	Date of Consecration: May 1, 2001
	Name Day: March 3
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Grace Seraphim
	Bishop of the Baltics,
	Vicar of the Diocese of Smolensk and Kaliningrad
	Date of Consecration: May 19, 2001
	Date of Election: April 3, 2001
	Name Day : January 15
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Grace Aleksandr
	Bishop of Dmitrov
	Date of Consecration: September 2, 2001
	Name Day: December 6
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Grace Daniil
	Bishop of Yuzhny Sakhalin and the Kuriles
	Date of Consecration: November 11, 2001
	Date of Election: 2001
	Date of Monastic Tonsure: June 20, 1985
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Grace Hilarion
	Bishop of Vienna and Austria
	Date of Consecration: January 14, 2002
	Date of Election: December 27, 2001
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Grace Maksim
	Bishop of Barnaul and Altai
	Date of Consecration: January 20, 2002
	Date of Election: January 17, 2002
	Date of Monastic Tonsure: March 24, 1988
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Grace Feognost
	Bishop of Sergiev-Posad
	Date of Consecration: March 31, 2002
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Grace Ioann
	Bishop of Brest and Kobrinsk
	Date of Consecration: March 31, 2002
	Date of Election: 2002
	Date of Monastic Tonsure: December 15, 1992
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Grace Irinarkh
	Bishop of Perm and Solikamsk
	Date of Consecration: April 14, 2002
	Date of Election: 2002
	Date of Monastic Tonsure: April 3, 1985
	Name Day: January 26
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Grace Feofilakt
	Bishop of Bryansk and Sevsk
	Date of Consecration: April 20, 2002
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Grace Feodosii
	Bishop of Tambov and Michurinsk
	Date of Consecration: April 21, 2002
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Grace Peter
	Bishop of Cleveland
	Date of Consecration: July 12, 2003
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Grace Veniamin
	Bishop of Lyuberetsk
	Vicar of the Diocese of Moscow
	Date of Consecration: August 14, 2003
	Date of Election: 2003
	Date of Monastic Tonsure: May 27, 1977
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Grace Longin
	Bishop of Saratov and Vol'sk
	Date of Consecration: August 19, 2003
	Date of Election: 2003
	Date of Monastic Tonsure: July 21, 1986
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Grace Mark
	Bishop of Egor'ev
	Date of Consecration: January 14, 2004
	Date of Monastic Tonsure: October 19, 1990
	Name Day: May 8
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Grace Zosima
	Bishop of Yakutsk and Lensk
	Date of Consecration: September 27, 2004
	Date of Election: 2004
	Date of Monastic Tonsure: December 16, 1991
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Grace Savvatii
	Bishop of Alatyrsk
	Date of Consecration: January 30, 2005
	Name Day: August 21
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Grace Stefan
	Bishop of Turov and Mozyrsk
	Date of Consecration: January 30, 2005
	Name Day: January 9
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Grace Amvrosii
	Bishop of Gatchinsk
	Date of Consecration: March 26, 2005
	Name Day: October 23
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Grace Tikhon
	Bishop of Yeisk
	Date of Consecration: April 3, 2005
	Name Day: April 7
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Grace Pankratii
	Bishop of Troitsky
	Date of Consecration: June 2, 2005
	Name Day: September 10
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Grace Ignatii
	Bishop of Vyazemsk,
	Vicar of the Diocese of Smolensk and Kaliningrad
	Date of Consecration: July 7, 2005
	Date of Election: 2005
	Date of Monastic Tonsure: March 23, 1998
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Grace Petr
	Bishop of Khynkov
	Date of Consecration: November 13, 2005
	Date of Election: 2005
	Name Day: July 12
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Grace Arsenii
	Bishop of Svyatogorsk,
	Vicar of the Diocese of Gorlov
	Date of Consecration: December 5, 2005
	Date of Election: 2005
	Name Day: May 21
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Grace Meletii
	Bishop of Khotinsk
	Date of Consecration: July 30, 2006
	Date of Election: 2006
	Name Day: June 6
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Grace Roman
	Bishop of Serpukhov
	Date of Consecration: August 10, 2006
	Date of Election: 2006
	Name Day: August 11
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Grace Alexander
	Bishop of Daugavpils
	Date of Consecration: August 19, 2006
	Date of Election: 2006
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Grace Aleksii
	Bishop of Belgorod and Dnestrov
	Date of Consecration: August 19, 2006
	Date of Election: 2006
	Name Day: February 25
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Grace Aristarkh
	Bishop of Kemerovo and Kuznetsk
	Date of Consecration: August 20, 2006
	Date of Election: 2006
	Name Day: April 28
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Grace Feofilakt
	Bishop of Bronnitsa
	Date of Consecration: September 24, 2006
	Date of Election: 2006
	Name Day: March 21
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Grace Markell
	Bishop of Petergof
	Date of Consecration: September 27, 2006
	Date of Election: 2006
	Name Day: June 20
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Grace Elisei
	Bishop of Sourozh
	Date of Consecration: November 26, 2006
	Date of Election: 2006
	Name Day: June 27
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Grace Antonii
	Bishop of Borispol
	Date of Consecration: November 26, 2006
	Date of Election: 2006
	Name Day: July 23
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Grace Mitrofan
	Bishop of Gorlov and Slavyansk
	Date of Consecration: January 28, 2007
	Name Day: August 20
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Grace Varnava
	Bishop of Makeevsk
	Date of Consecration: February 11, 2007
	Name Day: January 17
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Grace Sergii
	Bishop of Ussuriisk
	Date of Consecration: February 15, 2007
	Name Day: October 8
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Grace Markell
	Bishop of Beltsy and Falesht
	Date of Consecration: March 11, 2007
	Name Day: January 11
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Grace Elisei
	Bishop of Berdyansk and Primore
	Date of Consecration: March 31, 2007
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Grace Serafim
	Bishop of Bobruisk and Bykhov
	Date of Consecration: April 22, 2007
	Name Day: January 15
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Grace Nikodim
	Bishop of Vladimir-Volyna
	Date of Consecration: June 4, 2007
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Grace Irinei
	Bishop of Nezhinsk and Baturinsk
	Date of Consecration: June 10, 2007
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Grace Vladimir
	Bishop of Shepetov and Slavutsk
	Date of Consecration: June 11, 2007
	Name Day: February 7
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Grace Hilarion
	Bishop of Suma and Akhtyr
	Date of Consecration: July 29, 2007
	Date of Election: 2007
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Grace Panteleimon
	Bishop of Ivano-Frankivsk and Kolomiysk
	Date of Consecration: October 19, 2007
	Name Day: August 9
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Grace Serafim
	Bishop of Yagotinsk
	Date of Consecration: November 16, 2007
	Name Day: January 15
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Grace Evlogii
	Bishop of Kremenchug and Khorol
	Date of Consecration: November 25, 2007
	Name Day: September 7
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Grace Ioasaf
	Bishop of Kakhov and Berislavsk
	Date of Consecration: December 16, 2007
	Date of Election: 2007
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Grace Alexander
	Bishop of Pereyaslavl and Khmelnitsy
	Date of Consecration: December 19, 2007
	Date of Election: 2007
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Grace Feodor
	Bishop of Mukachev and Uzhgorod
	Date of Consecration: December 23, 2007
	Name Day: December 16
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Grace Leonid
	Bishop of Rechitsa
	Date of Consecration: February 12, 2008
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Grace Nikodim
	Bishop of Shatursk
	Date of Consecration: March 23, 2008
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Grace Antonii
	Bishop of Umansk and Zvenigorod
	Date of Consecration: May 18, 2008
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Grace Ieronim
	Bishop of Orlov and Livensk
	Date of Consecration: June 2, 2008
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
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