List of bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia
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 since 1920.

First Hierarchs

  • Anthony (Khrapovitsky), Metropolitan of Kiev & Galicia (28 July/10 August 1936)
  • Anastasius (Gribanovsky), Metropolitan of Chişinău & Khotin (8/21 May 1965)
  • Philaret (Voznesensky), Metropolitan of Eastern America & New York (8/21 November 1985)
  • Vitalis (Ustinov), ret. Metropolitan of Eastern America & New York (25 September 2006)
  • Laurus (Shkurla), Metropolitan of Eastern America & New York (16 March 2008)

Metropolitans

  • Methodius (Gerasimov), Metropolitan of Harbin and Manchuria (15/28 March 1931)
  • Innocent (Figurovsky), Metropolitan of Peking & China (15/28 June 1931)
  • Seraphim (Lade), Metropolitan of Berlin & Germany (1/14 September 1950)
  • Panteleimon (Rozhnovsky), ret. Metropolitan of Minsk & Byelorussia (17/30 December 1950)
  • Augustine (Peterson), ret. Metropolitan of Riga and Latvia (4 october 1955)

Archbishops

  • Simon (Vinogradov), Archbishop of Peking & China (11/24 February 1933)
  • Gabriel (Chepur), Archbishop of Chelyabinsk & Troitsk (1/14 March 1933)
  • Apollinarius (Koshevoy), Archbishop of North America (6/19 June 1933)
  • Sergius (Petrov), Archbishop of Chernomorsk & Novorossisk (11/24 January 1935)
  • Damian (Govorov), Archbishop of Tsarytsin (6/19 April 1936)
  • Theophanes (Bystrov), ret. Archbishop of Poltava and Pereyaslavl (6/19 February 1940)
  • Theophanes (Gavrilov), Archbishop of Kursk and Oboyan (1943)
  • Tikhon (Liashenko), ret. Archbishop of Berlin & Germany (11/24 February 1945)
  • Arseny (Chagovets), ret. Archbishop of Winnipeg (4 October 1945)
  • Benedict (Bobkovsky), Archbishop of Berlin & Germany (21 August/3 September 1950 or 1951)
  • Theodore (Rafalsky), Archbishop of Sydney, Australia & New Zealand (23 April/6 May 1955)
  • Joasaph (Skorodumov), Archbishop of Argentina & Paraguay (13/26 November 1955)
  • Hieronymus (Chernov), Archbishop of Detroit & Flint (1/14 May 1957)
  • Gregory (Borishkevich), Archbishop of Chicago & Cleveland (13/26 October 1957)
  • Vitalis (Maximenko), Archbishop of Eastern America & Jersey City (8/21 March 1960)
  • Tikhon (Troitsky), Archbishop of Western America & San Francisco (17/30 March 1963)
  • Stephen (Sevbo), Archbishop of Vienna & Austria (12/25 January 1965)
  • John (Maximovich), Archbishop of Western America & San Francisco (19 June/2 July 1966)
  • Theodosius (Samoilovich), Archbishop of Sao Paolo & Brazil (13/29 February 1968)
  • Leontius (Filippovich), Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Chile & Paraguay (19 June/2 July 1971)
  • Alexander (Lovchy), Archbishop of Berlin & Germany (29 August/11 September 1973)
  • Ambrose (Merezhko), ret. Archbishop of Pittsburgh & West Pennsylvania (26 November/9 December 1975)
  • Abercius (Taushev), Archbishop of Syracuse & Trinity (31 March/13 April 1976)
  • Sabbas (Rayevsky), Archbishop of Sydney, Australia & New Zealand (4/17 April 1976)
  • Nicon (Rklitsky), Archbishop of Washington & Florida (22 August/4 September 1976)
  • Nicodemus (Nagayev), Archbishop of Richmond & Great Britain (4/17 October 1976)
  • Andrew (Rymarenko), Archbishop of Rockland (29 June/12 July 1978)
  • Theodosius (Putilin), Archbishop of Sydney, Australia & New Zealand (31 July/13 August 1980)
  • Athanasius (Martos), Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina & Paraguay (21 October/3 November 1983)
  • Philotheus (Narko), Archbishop of Berlin & Germany (11/24 September 1986)
  • Nathaniel (Lvov), Archbishop of Vienna & Austria (27 October/8 November 1986)
  • Seraphim (Ivanov), Archbishop of Chicago, Detroit & the Midwest (12/25 July 1987)
  • Anthony (Bartoshevich), Archbishop of Geneva & Western Europe (25 August/7 September 1993)
  • Paul (Pavlov), ret. Archbishop of Sydney, Australia & New Zealand (2/15 February 1995)
  • Anthony (Sinkevich), Archbishop of Los Angeles & Southern California (18/31 July 1996)
  • Seraphim (Szezhevsky), ret. Archbishop of Caracas & Venezuela (31 August/13 September 1996)
  • Anthony (Medvedev), Archbishop of West America and San-Francisco (23 September 2000)
  • Seraphim (Dulgov), ret. Archbishop of Brussels and Western Europe (24 November 2003)

Bishops

  • Michael (Bogdanov), Bishop of Cheboksary (9/22 July 1925)
  • Michael (Kosmodemyansky), Bishop of Alexandrovsk (9/22 September 1925)
  • Jonah (Pokrovsky), Bishop of Hankou (7/20 October 1925)
  • Elias (Gevargizov), Bishop of Salma in Urmia (December 1928)
  • Nicholas (Karpov), Bishop of London (12/25 October 1932)
  • Anthony (Dashkevich), ret. Bishop of Alaska & the Aleutians (15 March 1934)
  • Gorazd (Pavlík), The Bishop of Czech (4 September 1942)
  • Basil (Pavlovsky), Bishop of Vienna & Austria (10/23 October 1945)
  • Eulogius (Markovsky), Bishop of Caracas & Venezuela (1951)
  • Leontius (Bartoshevich), Bishop of Geneva (6/19 August 1956)
  • John (Gevargizov), ret. Bishop of Salma & Urmia (1962)
  • Agapetus (Kryzhanovsky), ret. Bishop of Goiana (27 August/9 September 1966)
  • Sabbas (Saračević), ret. Bishop of Edmonton (17/30 January 1973)
  • Nectarius (Kontsevich), Bishop of Seattle (4/26 January 1983)
  • Nicander (Paderin), Bishop of Sao Paolo & Brazil (2/19 December 1987)
  • Innocent (Petrov), Bishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina & Paraguay (10/23 December 1987)
  • John (Legky), Bishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina & Paraguay (20 February/5 March 1995)
  • Gregory (Grabbe), ret. Bishop of Washington & Florida (24 September /7 October 1995)
  • Constantine (Jesensky), ret. Bishop of Boston (18/31 May 1996)
  • Mitrophan (Znosko-Borovsky), Bishop of Boston (15 February 2002)
  • Alexander (Mileant), Bishop of Buenos Aires and South America (18 September 2005)
  • Ambrose (Cantacuzène), ret. Bishop of Geneva and Western Europe (22 July 2009)
  • Daniel (Alexandrov), Bishop of Erie (26 April 2010)

former bishops

  • Mitrophan (Abramov), went Serbian Patriarchate in 1922
  • Benjamin (Fedchenkov)
    Benjamin (Fedchenkov)
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    , went Constantinople patriarchate in 1923
  • Platon (Rozhdestvensky), went Northern-American metropolis in 1924
  • Eulogius (Georgievsky), went Western-European Metropolis in 1926
  • Vladimir (Tikhonitsky), went Western-European Metropolis in 1926
  • Sergius (Korolyov), went Western-European Metropolis in 1926
  • Hermogenes (Maximov), went schism in 1942
  • Meletius (Zaborovsky), went Moscow Patriarchate in 1945
  • Victor (Svyatin), went Moscow Patriarchate in 1945
  • Nestor (Anisimov), went Moscow Patriarchate in 1945
  • Juvenal (Kilin), went Moscow Patriarchate in 1945
  • Demetrius (Voznesensky), went Moscow Patriarchate in 1945
  • Alexis (Panteleyev), went Moscow Patriarchate in 1945
  • Seraphim (Loukianov), went Moscow Patriarchate in 1945
  • Seraphim (Sobolev), went Moscow Patriarchate in 1945
  • Philip (Gardner), Bishop of Potsdam. Defrocked in 1945. (9 Dec 1898 - 26 Feb 1984)
  • Macarius (Ilyinsky), went Moscow Patriarchate in 1946
  • Paul (Meletyev), went Catholic church in 1946
  • Demetrius (Magan), went Northern-American metropolis in 1946 (1 April 1970)
  • John (Zlobin), went Northern-American metropolis in 1946
  • Panteleimon (Rudyk), went Moscow Patriarchate in 1959
  • James (Toombs), Bishop of of Manhattan, went schism in 1959
  • John-Nectaire (Kovalevsky), went schism in 1966
  • Jakob (Akkersdijk), Bishop of Hague, went Moscow Patriarchate in 1972
  • Kyrill (Yonchev)
    Kyrill (Yonchev)
    The Most Reverend Kyrill was the archbishop of the Orthodox Church in America's Diocese of Western Pennsylvania and Bulgarian Diocese...

    , went OCA
    OCA
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     in 1976
  • Lazarus (Zhurbenko), went schism in 2001

Archbishops

  • Alypius (Gamanovich), Archbishop of Chicago & Mid-America
  • Mark (Arndt), Archbishop of Berlin, Germany & of Great Britain
  • Kyrill (Dmitrieff)
    Kyrill (Dmitrieff)
    Archbishop Kyrill of San Francisco and Western America, is the ruling bishop of the Western American Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia....

    , Archbishop of San Francisco & Western America
  • Gabriel (Chemodakov), Archbishop of Montreal & Canada

Bishops

  • Barnabas (Prokofiev), ret. Bishop of Cannes
  • Michael (Donskoff), Bishop of Geneva & Western Europe
  • Agapit (Goratchek), Bishop of Stuttgart
  • Peter (Loukianoff), Bishop of Cleveland
  • John (Bērziņš)
    John (Bērziņš)
    Bishop John is bishop of Caracas and South America for the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia .-Life:Pēteris Bērziņš was born on 16 March 1957 in Cooma, Australia, of Latvian Orthodox refugees, Leonid and Margarita Bērziņš, who were forced to leave their homeland during the Second World War...

    , Bishop of Caracas & South America
  • Jerome (Shaw), Bishop of Manhattan
  • George (Schaefer), Bishop of Mayfield
  • Theodosius (Ivashchenko), Bishop of Seattle

former bishops

  • Valentine (Rusantsov), went schism in 1994
  • Benjamin (Rusalenko), went schism in 2001
  • Agathangel (Pashkovsky), went schism in 2007

External links

  • http://groups.yahoo.com/group/orthodox-synod/message/961
  • http://krotov.info/spravki/persons/20person/karlovch.html
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