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Bishops of the Russian
Orthodox Church Outside of Russia

The Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia was established as a Temporary Higher Church Administration for the faithful of the Russian Orthodox Church outside of Russia following the breakdown of order in the Russian Church in the 1920s. This is not a complete listing of ROCOR bishops.

Name Surname Born Consecrated Notes Died
Agafangel Pashkovsky 22 Nov. 1956 Mar. 1994 Consecrated Bishop of Simferopol.
From 1996, Bishop of Simferopol and Crimea.
 
Agapit       Bishop of Goiana 27 Aug. 1966 (o.s.)
Alexander Lovchy     Archbishop of Berlin & Germany
Retired in 1971.
29 Aug. 1976 (o.s.)
Alexander Mileant 1938 28 May 1998 Bishop of Buenos Aires & and Argentina.  
Alipy Gamanovich 19 Dec. 1926 20 Oct. 1974 Consecrated Bishop of Cleveland, Vicar of the Chicago Diocese.
From 1989, Bishop of Chicago & Detroit.
Elevated to the rank of Archbishop in 1990.
 
Ambrose Kantakuzen 16 Sep. 1947 26 Sep. 1993 Bishop of Vévéy  
Ambrose Merezhko     Archbishop of Pittsburgh & Western Pennsylvania 26 Nov. 1975 (o.s.)
Anastassy Gribanovsky     From 23 Apr. 1916 (o.s.), Archbishop of Kishinev and Khotinsk.
Emigrated 1919.
First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, 1936-64.
8 May 1965 (o.s.)
Andrew Rimarenko 1893 Mar. 1968 Archbishop of Rockland 29 Jun. 1978 (o.s.)
Anthony       Bishop of Alaska & the Aleutians 1934
Anthony Bartosevich 1911 1957 Consecrated Bishop of Brussels.
From 1963, Archbishop of Geneva & Western Europe
25 Aug. 1993 (o.s.)
Anthony Khrapovitsky     From 9 Oct. 1917 (o.s.), Archbishop of Kharkov and Akhtirsk.
Elevated to the rank of Metropolitan, 15 Nov. 1917 (o.s.).
From 30 May 1918 (o.s.), Metropolitan of Kiev and Galicia.
Emigrated 1919.
First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, 1920-36.
28 Jul 1936 (o.s.)
Anthony Medvedev 1908 1956 Consecrated Bishop of Melbourne.
From 1968, Archbishop of Western America & San Francisco.
 
Anthony Sinkevich 1903 1951 Consecrated Bishop of Los Angeles.
Elevated to the rank of Archbishop, 1961.
From 1962, Archbishop of Los Angeles & Texas.
From 1971, Archbishop of Los Angeles & Southern California.
18 Jul. 1996 (o.s.)
Apollinary Koshevoy     Archbishop of North America 6 Jun. 1933 (o.s.)
Athanasius Martos 1904 1942 Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina & Paraguay. 21 Nov. 1983 (o.s.)
Averky Taushev 19 Oct. 1906 (o.s.) 1953 Consecrated Bishop of Syracuse.
From 1960, Archbishop of Syracuse & Holy Trinity.
31 Mar. 1976 (o.s.)
Basil       Bishop of Vienna & Austria 10 Oct. 1945 (o.s.)
Benedict Bobkovsky     Archbishop of Berlin & Germany 21 Aug. 1950 or 1951 (o.s.)
Benjamin Rusalenko 1955 1990 Consecrated Bishop of Gomel.
From 1991, Bishop of Chernomorsk & Kuban.
 
Constantine Essensky 1907 Oct. 1967 Consecrated Bishop of Brisbane, Vicar of the Australian diocese.
Retired in 1976.
From 1978, Bishop of Boston.
From 1981, Bishop of Richmond & Great Britain.
18 May 1996 (o.s.)
Damian Govorov     Archbishop of Tsaritsyn 6 Apr. 1936 (o.s.)
Daniel Alexandrov 15 Sep. 1930 14 Aug. 1988 Bishop of Erie  
Dimitry Magan     Archbishop of Boston & New England ca. 1970
Elias Gevargizov     Bishop of Salma in Urmia Dec. 1928 (o.s.)
Eusebius Grozdov   15 May 1906 Consecrated Bishop of Uglich, Vicar of the Yaroslav diocese.
From 1909, Bishop of Rybinsk, Vicar of the Yaroslav diocese.
From 1910, Bishop of Tobolsk & Siberia.
From 1912, Bishop of Pskov & Porkhov.
Elevated to the rank of Archbishop, 1918.
From 1924, Archbishop of Narva & Izborsk.
30 Jul. 1929 (o.s.)
Evlogy       Bishop of Caracas & Venezuela 1951
Evtikhy Kurochkin 1955 24 Jul. 1994 (o.s.) Bishop of Ishim & Siberia.  
Gabriel Chemodakov   1996 Consecrated Bishop of Brisbane, Vicar of the Australian diocese.
From 1997, Bishop of Manhattan, Vicar for Eastern America.
 
Gabriel Chepur   4 Jan. 1910 Consecrated Bishop of Izmail, Vicar of the Kishinev diocese.
From 1911, Bishop of Akerman, Vicar of the Kishinev diocese.
From 1918, Archbishop of Chelyabinsk & Troitsa.
1 Mar. 1933 (o.s.)
Gregory Grabbe 1902 1978 Consecrated Bishop of Manhattan, Vicar for Eastern America.
From 1981, Bishop of Washington & Florida
24 Sep. 1995
Hilarion Kapral 1948 27 Nov. 1984 (o.s.) Consecrated Bishop of Manhattan, Vicar for Eastern America.
From 1995, Bishop of Washington.
From 1996, Archbishop of Sydney, Australia & New Zealand.
 
Ieronim Chernov     Archbishop of Detroit & Flint 1 May 1957 (o.s.)
Innocent Figurovski     From 1902, Bishop of Pereslav, Vicar of the Vladimir diocese.
From 1918, Metropolitan of Peking & China
15 Jun. 1931 (o.s.)
Innocent Petrov 26 Dec. 1902 Aug. 1983 Consecrated Bishop of Asuncion.
From 1985, Bishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina & Paraguay.
10 Dec. 1987 (o.s.)
Jean Kovalevsky   29 Oct. 1964 (o.s.) Bishop of St. Denis.
Deposed Feb. 1967.
17 Jan. 1970 (o.s.)
Joasaph Skorodumov     Archbishop of Argentina & Paraguay 13 Nov. 1955 (o.s.)
John       Bishop of Sitka & Alaska 1946
John       Bishop of Salmia & Urmia 1962
John Legky     Bishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina & Paraguay 20 Feb. 1995 (o.s.)
St. John Maximovich 4 Jun. 1896 1934 Consecrated Bishop of Shanghai.
Elevated to the rank of Archbishop, 1946.
Evacuated to the Philippines, 1949.
From 1951, Archbishop of Paris & Western Europe.
From 1963, Archbishop of Western America & San Francisco.
19 Jun. 1966 (o.s.)
St. Jonah Pokrovsky 1888 1922 Bishop of Tiantsin 7 Oct. 1925 (o.s.)
Kirill Dimitriev 24 Nov. 1954 1992 Bishop of Seattle  
Laurus Skurla 1928 1967 Consecrated Bishop of Manhattan.
From 1976, Bishop of Syracuse & Holy Trinity.
Elevated to the rank of Archbishop, 1981.
 
Lazar Zhurbenko 1931 10 May 1982 Consecrated Bishop of Tambov & Morshansk..
From 1992, Bishop of Tambov & Odessa.
From 1996, Archbishop of Odessa & Tambov.
 
Leonty Bartosevich     Bishop of Geneva 6 Aug. 1956 (o.s.)
Leonty Filippovich 7 Aug. 1907 1941 Consecrated Bishop of Zhitomir.
Appointed Bishop of Paraguay and Chile after World War II.
Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Chile & Paraguay.
19 Jun. 1971 (o.s.)
Mark Arndt 29 Jan. 1941 1980 Consecrated Bishop of Stuttgart & Southern Germany.
From 1982, Bishop of Berlin & Germay.
Elevated to the rank of Archbishop, 1990.
 
Methodius Gerasimov     From 1912, Bishop of Tomsk & Altai.
From 1914, Bishop of Orenburg.
Elevated to the rank of Archbishop, 1918.
From 1920, Archbishop of Harbin & Manchuria.
Elevated to the rank of Metropolitan, 1929.
15 Mar. 1931 (o.s.)
Michael       Bishop of Cheboksar 1925
Michael Donskov 29 Mar. 1943 1996 Bishop of Toronto, Vicar of the Canadian diocese.  
Mitrofan Znosko-Borovsky   24 Nov. 1992 Bishop of Boston.  
Nathanael Lvov 1906 1946 Consecrated Bishop of Brussels & Western Europe.
From 1951, Bishop of Preston and the Hague.
From 1952, Bishop of Colombia.
From 1976, Bishop of Vienna & Austria.
Elevated to the rank of Archbishop, 1981.
27 Oct. 1986 (o.s.)
Nektary Kontzevich 1905 11 Mar. 1962 Consecrated Bishop of Mahopac
From late 1962, Bishop of Seattle
4 Jan. 1983 (o.s.)
Nicander Padevin 1927 Nov. 1967 Consecrated Bishop of Rio de Janeiro
From 1976, Bishop of Sao Paolo & Brazil
2 Dec. 1987 (o.s.)
Nicholas       Bishop of London 1931
Nikodim Nagayev     Archbishop of Richmond & Great Britain 4 Oct. 1976 (o.s.)
Nikon Rklitsky     Archbishop of Washington & Florida 22 Aug. 1976 (o.s.)
Panteleimon Rozhnovsky     From 1940, Bishop of Grodnensk & Baranovsk.
From 1941, Archbishop of Minsk & Byelorussia.
Elevated to the rank of Metropolitan, 1942.
17 Dec. 1950 (o.s.)
Panteleimon Rudyk   1941 Consecrated Bishop of Lvov for the Moscow Patriarchate.
Joined ROCOR, 1945.
Archbishop of Montreal & Eastern Canada.
Returned to the Moscow Patriarchate, 1957 or 1959.
19 Sep. 1968 (o.s.)
Paul Pavlov 1927 1967 Consecrated Bishop of Stuttgart & Southern Germany.
From 1980, Bishop of Sydney, Australia & New Zealand.
Elevated to the rank of Archbishop, 1981.
2 Feb. 1995 (o.s.)
Philaret Voznesensky 22 Mar. 1903 1963 Consecrated Bishop of Brisbane, Vicar of the Australian diocese.
From 1964, Metropolitan of Eastern America & New York.
First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, 1964-85.
8 Nov. 1985 (o.s.)
Philotheus Narko 1905 1941 Consecrated Bishop of Slutsk.
Bishop of Hamburg, Vicar of the German diocese.
From Sep. 1971, Archbishop of Berlin & Germany.
Retired in 1982.
11 Sep. 1986 (o.s.)
Sava Rayevsky     Archbishop of Sydney, Australia & New Zealand
Retired in 1971.
4 Apr. 1976 (o.s.)
Sava Sarachevich     Bishop of Edmonton 17 Jan. 1973
Seraphim Dulgov   19 Sep. 1993 Consecrated Bishop of Lesna.
From Nov. 1993, Bishop of Lesna & Western Europe.
From 1995, Archbishop of Brussels & Western Europe.
 
Seraphim Ivanov 1897 1946 Consecrated Bishop of Santiago.
From 1947, Bishop of Holy Trinity.
From 1957, Archbishop of Chicago, Detroit & the Midwest
12 Jul 1987 (o.s.)
Seraphim Lade     Metropolitan of Berlin & Germany 1 Sep. 1950 (o.s.)
Seraphim Szezhevsky 1899 1957 Consecrated Bishop of Caracas & Venezuela.
Elevated to the rank of Archbishop, 1968.
Retired 1984.
31 Aug. 1996 (o.s.)
Sergius Petrov     Archbishop of Chernomorsk & Novorossisk 11 Jan. 1935 (o.s.)
Simon Vinogradov   4 Sep. 1922 Consecrated Bishop of Harbin.
From 1931, Archbishop of Peking & China.
11 Feb. 1933 (o.s.)
Stephen Sevbo     Archbishop of Vienna & Austria 12 Jan. 1965 (o.s.)
Theodore Rafalsky     Archbishop of Sydney, Australia & New Zealand 23 Apr. 1955 (o.s.)
Theodosius       Bishop of Sydney, Australia & New Zealand.
Elevated to the rank of Archbishop, Sep. 1971.
31 Jul. 1980 (o.s.)
Theodosius Samoilovich     Archbishop of Sao Paolo & Brazil 13 Feb 1968 (o.s.)
Theophan Bystrov     Archbishop of Poltava & Pereyaslavl 6 Feb. 1940
Theophan Gavrilov     Archbishop of Kursk & Oboyan 1943
Tikhon Liashenko     Archbishop of Berlin & Germany 11 Feb. 1945 (o.s.)
Tikhon Troitsky     Archbishop of Western America & San Francisco 17 Mar. 1963 (o.s.)
Varnava Prokofiev     Bishop of Cannes  
Vitaly Maximenko     Archbishop of Eastern America & Jersey City 8 Mar. 1960 (o.s.)
Vitaly Ustinov 18 Mar. 1910 1951 Consecrated Bishop of Montevideo, Vicar of the Brazil diocese.
From 1954, Bishop of Edmonton & Western Canada.
From 1957, Archbishop of Montreal and Canada.
From 1986, Metropolitan of Eastern America & New York.
First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia from 1986.
 

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