List of bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia

List of the Metropolitan bishops, archbishops, and bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia since 1920.

Living

First Hierarchs

Hilarion (Kapral), Metropolitan of Eastern America & New York, First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad

Metropolitans

Jonah (Paffhausen), retired Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada (ex-OCA)

Archbishops

Alypius (Gamanovich), retired Archbishop of Chicago & Mid-America
Mark (Arndt), Archbishop of Berlin, Germany & Great Britain
Kyrill (Dmitrieff), Archbishop of San Francisco & Western America
Gabriel (Chemodakov), Archbishop of Montreal & Canada
Michael (Donskoff), Archbishop of Geneva & Western Europe
Peter (Loukianoff), Archbishop of Chicago & Mid-America

Bishops

John (Bērziņš), Bishop of Caracas & South America
Agapit (Goratchek), Bishop of Stuttgart, vicar of the German Diocese
George (Schaefer), Bishop of Canberra, vicar of the Australian Diocese
Theodosius (Ivashchenko), Bishop of Seattle, vicar of the Western American Diocese
Nicholas (Olhovsky), Bishop of Manhattan, vicar of the Eastern American Diocese
Jerome (Shaw), retired Bishop of Manhattan
Nikolai (Soraich), retired Bishop of Sitka and Alaska (ex-OCA)

Former Bishops (Still living)

Barnabas (Prokofiev), defrocked in 2014
Benjamin (Rusalenko), went schism in 2001
Agathangel (Pashkovsky), went schism in 2007

Dead

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)
Vitaly (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), ret. Archbishop of Black Sea & Novorossisk (11/24 January 1935)
Damian (Govorov), ret. 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 (Lyaschenko), ret. Archbishop of Berlin & Germany (11/24 February 1945)
Arsenius (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 São Paulo & 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)
Nikon (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 (Svezhevsky), 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 São Paulo & 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), 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 December 1898 - 26 February 1984)
Macarius (Ilyinsky), went Moscow Patriarchate in 1946
Paul (Meletiev), went Catholic church in 1946
Theophilus (Pashkovsky), went Northern-American metropolis in 1946
Leontius (Turkevich), went Northern-American metropolis 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 Manhattan, went schism in 1959
John-Nectaire (Kovalevsky), went schism in 1966
Jakob (Akkersdijk), Bishop of Hague, went Moscow Patriarchate in 1972
Kyrill (Yonchev), went OCA in 1976
Valentine (Rusantsov), went schism in 1994
Lazarus (Zhurbenko), went schism in 2001

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