Former Hierarchs of the Russian Orthodox Church
(In alphabetical order)

	His Eminence Gedeon
	Metropolitan of Stavropol and Vladikavkaz
	Date of Consecration: October 22, 1967
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Eminence Grigorii
	Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod
	Date of Death: November 5, 1955
	Date of Elevation to Metropolitan: September , 1945
	Date of Elevation to Archbishop: May 26, 1944
	Date of Consecration: October 14, 1942
	Date of Election: 1942
	Date of Monastic Tonsure: October 13, 1942
	Name Day: October 13
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Grace Grigorii
	Bishop of Omsk and Semipalatinsk
	Date of Death: March 15, 1914
	Date of Consecration: 1891
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Grace Ierofei
	Bishop of Balakhninsk,
	Vicar of the Diocese of Nizhegorod
	Date of Death: August 14, 2001
	Date of Consecration: July 29, 1991
	Date of Monastic Tonsure: 1963
	Name Day: October 17
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Eminence Innokentii
	Archbishop of Tashkent and Turkestan
	Date of Death: 1937
	Date of Consecration: 1909
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Grace Innokentii
	Bishop of Konotop and Glukhov
	Date of Consecration: October 5, 1994
	Date of Election: 1994
	Date of Monastic Tonsure: March 25, 1979
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Eminence Ioann
	Archbishop of Riga and All Latvia
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Grace Ippolit
	Bishop of Khust and Vinogradov
	Date of Consecration: August 16, 1992
	Date of Election: 1992
	Date of Monastic Tonsure: 1988
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Eminence Irinei
	Metropolitan of Vienna and Austria
	Date of Consecration: January 30, 1966
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Eminence Konstantin
	Archbishop of Brest and Kobrinsk
	Date of Consecration: April 12, 1987
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Eminence Leontii
	Metropolitan of Orenburg and Buzuluk
	Date of Consecration: August 10, 1956
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Eminence Makarii
	Metropolitan of Vinnitsa and Mogilev-Podol'e
	Date of Elevation to Metropolitan: 2000
	Date of Elevation to Archbishop: 1979
	Date of Consecration: June 7, 1970
	Date of Election: 1970
	Date of Monastic Tonsure: June 7, 1970
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Eminence Maksim
	Archbishop of Mogilev and Mstislav
	Date of Consecration: March 26, 1972
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Grace Mefodii
	Bishop of Khustsk and Vinogradov
	Date of Consecration: July 30, 1994
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Eminence Melkhisedek
	Archbishop of Bryansk and Sevsk
	Date of Consecration: June 17, 1965
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Grace Mikhail
	Bishop of Kurgan and Shadrinsk
	Date of Consecration: April 3, 1993
	Date of Election: 1993
	Date of Monastic Tonsure: March 30, 1978
	Name Day: November 21
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Eminence Mikhei
	Archbishop of Yaroslavl and Rostov
	Date of Death: October 22, 2005
	Date of Elevation to Archbishop: February 25, 1995
	Date of Consecration: December 17, 1993
	Date of Election: 1993
	Date of Monastic Tonsure: January 1, 1947
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Eminence Neofit
	Archbishop of Kishinev and Moldavia
	Date of Elevation to Archbishop: 1892
	Date of Consecration: 1880
	Date of Monastic Tonsure: 1880
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Grace Nestor
	Bishop of Novgorod and Seversk
	Date of Death: August 19, 1910
	Date of Consecration: April 15, 1901
	Date of Election: February 23, 1901
	Date of Monastic Tonsure: September 16, 1889
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Eminence Nikolai
	Metropolitan of Nizhny Novgorod and Arzamas
	Date of Consecration: September 10, 1961
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Grace Nikon
	Bishop of Ekaterinburg and Verkhotursk
	Date of Consecration: July 21, 1993
	Name Day: November 30
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Grace Nikon
	Bishop of Tashkent and Turkestan
	Date of Death: June 19, 1897
	Date of Consecration: 1888
	Date of Monastic Tonsure: 1881
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Eminence Paisii
	Archbishop of Orlov and Livensk
	Date of Elevation to Archbishop: February 25, 1996
	Date of Consecration: July 21, 1988
	Date of Election: 1988
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Holiness Pimen
	Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus'
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Eminence Pitirim
	Metropolitan of Volokolamsk and Yuriev,
	Vicar of the Diocese of Moscow
	Date of Death: November 4, 2003
	Date of Elevation to Metropolitan: 1986
	Date of Elevation to Archbishop: 1971
	Date of Consecration: May 23, 1963
	Date of Tonsure: 1959
	Name Day: August 10
	Biography
	Obituary
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Eminence Serafim
	Archbishop of Penza and Kuznetsy
	Date of Consecration: October 18, 1978
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Grace Serafim
	Bishop of Belotserkov and Boguslav
	Date of Consecration: August 1, 1994
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Eminence Serapion
	Metropolitan of Tula and Belev
	Date of Consecration: March 5, 1972
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Holiness Sergii
	Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus'
	Date of Death: May 15, 1944
	Date of Enthonement to Patriarch: August 30(o.s.), 1943
	Date of Elevation to Patriarch: August 26 (o.s.), 1943
	Date of Elevation to Metropolitan: November 28, 1917
	Date of Elevation to Archbishop: October 6, 1901
	Date of Consecration: February 25, 1901
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Grace Sergii
	Bishop of Novosibirsk and Berdsk
	Date of Consecration: December 10, 1995
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Eminence Simon
	Archbishop of Ryazan and Kasimov
	Date of Consecration: October 14, 1972
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Eminence Sofoniya
	Archbishop of Tashkent and Turkestan
	Date of Death: November 26, 1877
	Date of Elevation to Archbishop: 1877
	Date of Consecration: 1865
	Date of Monastic Tonsure: 1827
	Biography
	Obituary
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Eminence Vasilii
	Archbishop of Brussels and Belgium
	Date of Death: September 22, 1985
	Date of Consecration: 1959
	Biography
	Obituary
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Eminence Vasilii
	Archbishop of Kirovograd and Aleksandriya
	Date of Consecration: October 1, 1989
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Grace Viktor
	Bishop of Podol'e,
	Vicar of the Diocese of Moscow
	Date of Consecration: March 25, 1990
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Eminence Viktor
	Archbishop of Krasnodar
	Date of Elevation to Archbishop: 1937
	Date of Consecration: October 21, 1932
	Date of Monastic Tonsure: June 20, 1921
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
	His Eminence Yuvenalii
	Former Metropolitan of Kursk and Ryla
	Date of Elevation to Metropolitan: February 25, 2000
	Date of Elevation to Archbishop: July 16, 1982
	Date of Consecration: November 16, 1975
	Date of Election: 1975
	Biography
	Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
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