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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. Born into a military family, he enlisted as an artillery officer after finishing his ...
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 ...
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 .
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.
The Preses (Presiding Bishop) is the primate and metropolitan and also has Ordinary jurisdiction over the cathedral deanery in Nidaros (Trondheim), notwithstanding the existence of a Diocesan Bishop of Nidaros (see below). Bishop Preses (Primate and Metropolitan) Bishop of Agder og Telemark; Bishop of Bjørgvin; Bishop of Borg; Bishop of Hamar ...
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.
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.
Metropolitan Nikodim (secular name Boris Georgiyevich Rotov Russian: Борис Георгиевич Ротов, 15 October 1929 – 5 September 1978), [1] was the Russian Orthodox metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod from 1963 until his death. Nikodim was born in Frolovo in south-west Russia. [2]