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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Lazar | Zhurbenko | 1931 | 10 May 1982 | Consecrated Bishop of Tambov & Morshansk.. From 1992, Bishop of Tambov & Odessa. From 1996, Archbishop of Odessa & Tambov. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |