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Vasili Semyonovitch Georgiyevskiy was born on 10 April 1868. He graduated from the Moscow Theological Academy in 1892. In 1903 he was consecrated as a bishop of the Orthodox Church. In 1907 he was a member of the Russian Duma. From 1912 to 1914 he was bishop of Kholm with the title of archbishop, and from 1914 to 1919 he was archbishop of Volhynia.
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.
Became the second Metropolitan to be appointed by the Grand Duke of Moscow. He was not recognised by the Patriarch of Constantinople. 3 St. Philip I: 11 November 1464 5 April 1473 4 St. Gerontius: 29 June 1473 28 May 1489 5 Zosimus: 26 September 1490 17 May 1494 Removed from the metropolitan throne on charges of heresy: 6 Simon: 22 September 1495
According to the Russian Orthodox Church, soon in April of 1990 Andrew Abramchuk was given a title of Metropolitan of Halychyna and Ivano-Frankivsk. [3] However, in reality Andrew Abramchuk was awarded title of archbishop at the 1990 UAOC All-Ukrainian Local Council in June and his title of Metropolitan he received from Patriarch Mstyslav of ...
Metropolitan Anthony (Russian: Митрополит Антоний, secular name Anton Yuryevich Sevryuk, Russian: Антон Юрьевич Севрюк; born 12 October 1984), is the primate of the Patriarchal Exarchate in Western Europe of the Russian Orthodox Church. He holds the title of "Metropolitan of Volokolamsk".
Metropolitan John (secular name Georgy Yevgenyevich Roshchin, Russian: Георгий Евгеньевич Рощин; 22 October 1974) is a retired Metropolitan of the Russian Orthodox Church. From 2014 to 2018, he served as the US-based titular bishop of Naro-Fominsk [ ru ] , vicar of the Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia .
Benjamin of Petrograd (Russian: Вениамин Петроградский, Veniamin Petrogradsky, 29 April [O.S. 17 April] 1873 – 13 August [O.S. 31 July] 1922), born Vasily Pavlovich Kazansky (Russian: Василий Павлович Казанский), was a hieromartyr under Soviet anti-religious persecution, a bishop in the Russian Orthodox Church and eventually Metropolitan of ...