Former Hierarchs of the Patriarchate of Moscow

(in alphabetical order)

His Eminence Aaron

Archbishop of Arkhangelsk and Kholmogorsk

Date of Death: May 7, 1738
Date of Consecration: December 23, 1735
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters

His Grace Aaron

Bishop of Karelia and Ladoga

Date of Death: May 1, 1740
Date of the Great Schema (with the name of Alipii): April 3, 1740
Date of Consecration: January 24, 1714
Date of Monastic Tonsure: August 6, 1691
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters

His Grace Aaron

Bishop of Arkhangelsk and Kholmogorsk

Date of Death: January 15, 1842
Date of Consecration: February 14, 1826
Date of Monastic Tonsure: 1810
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters

His Holiness Adrian

Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus'

Hierarchical Sees
Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' (1690-1700)
Metropolitan of Kazan and Sviyazhsk (1686-1690)
Date of Death: October 15, 1700
Date of Birth: October 2, 1627
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters

His Eminence Afanasii

Archbishop of Perm and Solikamsk

Date of Death: May 1, 2002
Date of Consecration: August 31, 1980
Date of Election: 1980
Name Day: May 15
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters

His Eminence Agapit

Archbishop of Novotorzhsk

Date of Death: May 1938
Date of Elevation to Archbishop: 1934
Date of Consecration: December 12, 1921
Date of Election: 1921
Date of Monastic Tonsure: 1909
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters

His Eminence Agapit

Archbishop of Ekaterinoslav and Mariupol

Date of Death: 1924
Date of Elevation to Archbishop: 1918
Date of Consecration: April 7, 1902
Date of Election: 1902
Date of Monastic Tonsure: August 1895
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters

His Grace Agapit

Bishop of Tomsk and Eniseisk

Date of Death: January 1, 1854
Date of Consecration: August 12, 1834
Date of Election: 1834
Date of Monastic Tonsure: September 14, 1821
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters

His Holiness Aleksii I

Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus'

Hierarchical Sees
Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' (1945-1970)
Metropolitan of Leningrad (1932-1945)
Metropolitan of Khutynsk (1932)
Archbishop of Khutynsk (1926-1932)
Bishop of Yamburg (1921-1926)
Bishop of Tikhvinsk (1913-1921)
Date of Death: April 17, 1970
Date of Enthronement as Patriarch: February 4, 1945
Date of Election as Patriarch: February 2, 1945
Date of Elevation to Metropolitan: 1932
Date of Elevation to Archbishop: 1926
Date of Consecration: 1913
Date of Election: 1913
Date of Ordination to the Priesthood: 1903
Date of Ordination to the Diaconate: 1902
Date of Monastic Tonsure: February 1902
Date of Birth: October 27, 1877
Full Name: Sergei Vladimirovich Simanskii
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters

His Holiness Aleksii II

Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus'

Hierarchical Sees
Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' (1990-)
Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod (1986-1990)
Metropolitan of Tallinn and All Estonia (1968-1986)
Archbishop of Tallinn and All Estonia (1964-1968)
Bishop of Tallinn and All Estonia (1961-1964)
Date of Death: December 5, 2008
Date of Enthronement as Patriarch: June 10, 1990
Date of Election as Patriarch: June 7, 1990
Date of Elevation to Metropolitan: February 25, 1968
Datte of Elevation to Archbishop: June 23, 1964
Date of Consecration: September 3, 1961
Date of Election: 1961
Date of Monastic Tonsure: March 3, 1961
Date of Elevation to Hegumen: August 17, 1958
Date of Ordination to the Priesthood: April 17, 1950
Date of Ordination to the Diaconate: April 15, 1950
Name Day: February 25
Date of Birth: February 23, 1929
Full Name: Aleksei Mikhailovich Ridiger
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters

His Eminence Alexander

Archbishop of Saratov and Vol'sk

Date of Consecration: October 4, 1982
Date of Election: 1982
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters

His Grace Alexander

Bishop of Kostroma

Date of Death: 1888
Date of Consecration: 1878
Date of Election: 1878
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters

His Grace Alipii

Bishop of Gorlov and Slavyansk

Date of Consecration: October 6, 1991
Date of Election: 1991
Date of Monastic Tonsure: 1968
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters

His Eminence Amvrosii

Archbishop of Ivanov and Kineshema

Date of Consecration: October 18, 1977
Date of Election: 1977
Date of Monastic Tonsure: December 17, 1954
Name Day: December 20
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters

His Grace Anatolii

Bishop of Kostanai and Petropavlovsk

Date of Consecration: February 15, 1998
Date of Election: 1998
Date of Monastic Tonsure: June 16, 1987
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters

His Eminence Anthony

Metropolitan of Sourozh

Date of Death: August 4, 2003
Date of Elevation to Metropolitan: 1966
Date of Elevation to Archbishop: 1962
Date of Consecration: November 30, 1957
Date of Election: 1957
Date of Monastic Tonsure: 1939
Biography
Obituary
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
Articles
Body and Matter in Spiritual Life
The Church of the Councils: The "Onslaught of the Intellect and the Potential of Doubt"
First Celebration of All Saints of the British Isles
Living Prayer
Meeting a Non-Orthodox Society
On Death
Prayer and Life
The Prayer of Intercession
Sermons for the Beginning of the School
Some Aspects of the Doctrine of Creation
The True Worth of Man
The Whole Human Person: Body, Spirit and Soul