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Fr. Leonid represented the American diocese of the Russian Church at the All-Russian Church Council of 1917–1918 in Moscow, Russia. [1] Fr. Leonid, whose wife had died in 1925, was consecrated Bishop of Chicago in 1933. He was given the name Leonty during his tonsure as a monastic. [1]
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 .
Archbishop Peter (Russian: Архиепископ Петр, secular name Pavel Andreyevich Loukianoff, Russian: Павел Андреевич Лукьянов; August 9, 1948 – November 8, 2024) was an American bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, serving as archbishop of Chicago and Mid-America.
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)
On 25 December 2017, according to the website of Russia's administration of Crimea, Patriarch Kirill by his decree awarded the head of the Russian administration of Crimea Sergey Aksyonov and the head of the Russian "State Council of Crimea" Volodymyr Kostiantynov (both contributed to the occupation of Crimea and are wanted in Ukraine on ...
Metropolitan Tikhon (Russian: Митрополит Тихон, secular name Georgiy Alexandrovich Shevkunov, Russian: Георгий Александрович Шевкунов; born 2 July 1958 in Moscow) is a bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church and a popular writer. [1]
Metropolitan Hilarion (born Igor Alexeyevich Kapral, Russian: Игорь Алексеевич Капра́л; 6 January 1948 – 16 May 2022) was a bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR), Metropolitan of Eastern America and New York, First-Hierarch of the ROCOR since 18 May 2008; as the first person elected to that position following the Act of Canonical Communion between ...
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.