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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)
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.
In 2014, when Russia annexed the Crimea and initiated a proxy war in the Donbas area of Ukraine, right up until the beginning of the full-fledged war against Ukraine and afterwards, Putin and Patriarch Kirill have used Russian world ideology as a principal justification for the invasion.
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 ...
Seraphim Chichagov (9 June [1] or 9 January [2] 1856 – 11 December 1937), born Leonid Mikhailovich Chichagov, was a Metropolitan bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church who was executed by firing squad, and was canonized by the Church in 1997 as a New Martyr.
Metropolitan Barsanuphius (Russian: Митрополит Варсонофий, secular name Anatoly Vladimirovich Sudakov, Russian: Анато́лий Влади́мирович Судако́в; 3 June 1955, Malinovka, Arkadaksky District, Saratov Oblast) is a bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church who is serving as the Metropolitan of St. Petersburg and Ladoga, head of the Metropolitanate of ...
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.