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Philaret (Voznesensky), Metropolitan of Eastern America & New York (8/21 November 1985) Vitaly (Ustinov), ret. Metropolitan of Eastern America & New York (25 September 2006) Laurus (Shkurla), Metropolitan of Eastern America & New York (16 March 2008) Hilarion (Kapral), Metropolitan of Eastern America & New York (16 May 2022)
The bishop of the provincial capital, the metropolitan, enjoyed certain rights over other bishops in the province, later called "suffragan bishops". [ 3 ] The term metropolitan may refer in a similar sense to the bishop of the chief episcopal see (the "metropolitan see") of an ecclesiastical province .
In 1316 the Metropolitan of Kiev changed his see to the city of Vladimir, and in 1322 moved again to Moscow. In 1589, the see was elevated to a Patriarchate . The Patriarchate was abolished by the Church reform of Peter the Great in 1721 and replaced by the Most Holy Governing Synod , and the Bishop of Moscow came to be called a Metropolitan again.
Metropolitan Nicholas formally elevated Bishop George to the rank of archbishop on the 12th of July, 2024, after the liturgy service took place at Saints Peter and Paul Russian Orthodox Cathedral in Strathfield, New South Wales, [18] [19] where Archbishop George serves as a member of the clergy.
Metropolitan Nicholas (born Nikolay Alexandrovich Olhovsky, [a] 17 December 1974) is the First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia and Metropolitan of Eastern America and New York since 14 September 2022.
On 18 July 2014, despite Russia's intervention in Donbas and Russia's occupation of Crimea (during which Putin, according to his own statement, threatened to use nuclear weapons in case of resistance to the Russians [106]), Kirill said that Russia poses no military threat to anyone. [107]
The Russian Church came to function independently as a council of Russian bishops elected their own metropolitan without reference to Constantinople. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] After Constantinople fell in 1453, Moscow became the only independent Orthodox power and its leaders soon began to advance the claim that Moscow was the successor to the Byzantine ...
On May 12–14, 2003, the Synod of Bishops of the ROCOR decided that Archimandrite Peter (Loukianoff) would be a vicar bishop of the Chicago diocese with the title bishop of Cleveland. [2] July 12, 2003, the feast of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul at the Protection of the Theotokos cathedral in Des Plaines, Illinois, his bishop nomination was ...