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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 .
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 October 8, at the Dormition Cathedral of the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius was elevated to the rank of Metropolitan by Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia. [ 10 ] From 28 December 2011 [ 11 ] to 18 March 2012 and from 29 May 2013 to 25 January 2014, he was temporarily in charge the Kamensk diocese.
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.
It holds that this "Russian world" has a common political centre (Moscow), a common spiritual centre (Kyiv as the "mother of all Rus"), a common language (Russian), a common church (the Russian Orthodox Church, Moscow Patriarchate), and a common patriarch (the Patriarch of Moscow), who works in 'symphony' with a common president/national leader ...
Since 22 March 2011 he has been a member of the Supreme Council of the Russian Orthodox Church . [2] 22 October 2015 the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church appointed Tikhon to be a Vicar of Moscow Eparchy. The next day was announced the Bishop of Yegoryevsk and on 24 October 2015 Patriarch Kirill of Moscow Chirotonized him as the Bishop ...
Metropolitan Leonid (secular name Leonid Eduardovich Gorbachov, Russian: Леонид Эдуардович Горбачёв; born 26 October 1968, Stavropol) is a retired bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church. He holds the title "Metropolitan of Klin". Former Patriarchal Exarch of Africa (2021-2023).
Arseny Matseyevich. Metropolitan Arsenius (secular name Alexander Ioannovich Matsieyevich, Russian: Алекса́ндр Иоа́ннович Мацее́вич; 1697, Volodymyr – 28 February 1772, Reval) was bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church, metropolitan of Rostov and Yaroslavl who protested against the confiscation of the church's land by Empress Catherine II in 1764.