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Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna 10 St. Philaret Vasily Drozdov (1783–1867) 15 July 1821 2 December 1867 Archbishop of Moscow and Kolomna, metropolitan since 1826 11 St. Innocent Ivan Veniaminov (1797–1879) 5 January 1868 12 April 1879 12 Macarius I Mikhail Bulgakov (1816–1882) 20 April 1879 21 June 1882 13 Joannicius Ivan Rudnev (1826 ...
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 .
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 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 ...
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 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]
Eulogius (Russian: Евло́гий, born Vasily Semyonovich Georgiyevsky, Russian: Васи́лий Семёнович Гео́ргиевский; April 10, 1868 – April 8, 1946 in Paris) was an Orthodox Christian bishop, who led elements of the Russian Orthodox diaspora in Western Europe from 1921 until his death.
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 ...