Current Hierarchs of the Russian Orthodox Church

(In order of seniority)

His Grace Gurii
Bishop 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 Grace Efrem
Bishop 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 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 Feodosii
Bishop of Polotsk and Gluboksk
Date of Consecration: April 19, 1997
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters

His Grace Ignatii
Bishop of Petropavlovsk and Kamchatka
Date of Consecration: March 29, 1998
Date of Election: 1998
Name Day : May 13
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 Mukachev and Uzhgorod
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 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 Onufrii
Bishop 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 Grace Diomid
Bishop of Andyra and Chukota
Date of Consecration: August 10, 2000
Date of Election: 2000
Date of Monastic Tonsure: July 3, 1987
Name Day: August 29
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters

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

His Grace Panteleimon
Bishop of Vasil'kovsk
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 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
 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 Filipp
Bishop of Poltava and Kremenchug
Date of Consecration: December 30, 2001
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
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 Veniamin
Bishop of Lyuberetsk
Vicar of the Diocese of Moscow
Date of Consecration: March 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 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 Luka
Bishop of Vasilkovo,
Vicar of the Diocese of Kiev
Date of Consecration: November 12, 2005
Date of Election: 2005
Date of Monastic Tonsure: December 25, 2003
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters

 
His Grace Arsenii
Bishop of Svyatogorsk,
Vicar of the Diocese of Gorlov
Date of Consecration: December 4, 2005
Date of Election: 2005
Date of Monastic Tonsure: August 21, 1992
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters

 
His Grace Pankratii
Bishop of Troitskii
Date of Consecration:
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters


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