Orthodox Hierarchs

Patriarchate of Moscow

Penza and Saransk

Bishops 24

  1. 1828 – 26 July 1830

    Irinei the Serb Nesterovich 1783–1864

    Bishop

  2. 1854 – 1862

    Varlaam Uspenskii 1801–1876

    Bishop, then Archbishop

  3. 1862 – 1868

    Anthony Smolin 1806–1876

    Bishop

  4. 1868 – 24 April 1881

    Gregory Mediolanskii d. 1881

    Bishop

  5. 1881 – 15 April 1889

    Anthony Nikolayevskii 1820–1889

    Bishop

  6. 1889 – 12 July 1890

    Basil Levitov d. 1892

    Bishop

  7. 1890 – 1893

    Mitrofan Nevskii d. 1899

    Bishop

  8. 1893 – 4 June 1902

    Paul Vilchinskii 1829–1908

    Bishop

  9. 1902 – 1912

    Tikhon Nikanorov 1855–1920

    Bishop

  10. 1907 – 1915

    Mitrofan Simashkevich 1845–1933

    Bishop, then Archbishop

  11. 1915 – 1917

    Vladimir Putyata 1869–1936

    Archbishop

  12. 1918 – 1921

    John Pommer/Pommers 1876–1934

    Archbishop

  13. ca. 1921 – 1922

    Boris Lentovskii d. 1931

    Bishop

  14. 8 May 1935 – September 1935

    Abraham Churilin 1867–1938

    Bishop

  15. 23 September 1935 – 5 February 1937

    Theodore Smirnov 1891–1937

    Bishop

  16. 12 February 1944 – 27 January 1947

    Michael Postnikov 1878–1952

    Bishop

  17. 1 April 1944 – July 1944

    Cyril Pospelov 1876–1953

    Bishop

  18. 27 January 1947 – 18 December 1953

    Cyril Pospelov 1876–1953

    Bishop, then Archbishop

  19. 9 February 1954 – 22 March 1960

    Leonid Lobachyov d. 1967

    Bishop

  20. 22 March 1960 – 30 July 1968

    Feodosii Pogorskii 1909–1975

    Bishop, then Archbishop

  21. 30 July 1968 – 16 December 1969

    Polycarp Priimak 1912–1989

    Bishop

  22. 16 December 1969 – 25 June 1970

    Hilarion Prokhorov 1889–1973

    Archbishop

  23. 25 June 1970 – 10 October 1978

    Melkhisedek Lebedev 1927–2016

    Bishop, then Archbishop

  24. 18 October 1978 – 5 April 1990

    Serapheim Tikhonov 1935–2000

    Bishop

In the order of their start dates; bishops whose dates are unknown come last. Gaps are periods the data does not yet cover.

Also named after the see

Retired bishops who kept its name, and clergy or lay people whose title was attached to it.