Orthodox Hierarchs

Patriarchate of Moscow

Vilnius and Lithuania

Bishops 24

  1. 30 March 1839 – 23 November 1867

    Joseph Semashko 1798–1867

    Archbishop, then Metropolitan

  2. 1868 – 20 April 1879

    Makarii Bulgakov 1816–1882

    Archbishop

  3. 1879 – 28 April 1885

    Alexander Dobrynin 1820–1885

    Archbishop

  4. 1885 – 10 November 1890

    Aleksii Lavrov-Platonov 1829–1890

    Bishop, then Archbishop

  5. 13 December 1890 – 1894

    Donat Babinskii-Sokolov 1828–1896

    Archbishop

  6. 1894 – 1898

    Ieronim Ekzemplyarskii/Ekzemplyarovskii 1836–1905

    Bishop, then Archbishop

  7. 7 March 1898 – 12 April 1904

    Juvenal Polovtsev 1826–1904

    Archbishop

  8. 23 April 1904 – 5 June 1910

    Nikandr Molchanov 1852–1910

    Archbishop

  9. 1910 – 1913

    Agafangel Preobrazhenskii 1854–1928

    Archbishop

  10. 1913 – 27 August 1917

    Tikhon Belavin 1865–1925

    Archbishop

  11. 28 June 1921 – 31 December 1940

    Elevferii Bogoyavlenskii 1870–1940

    Archbishop, then Metropolitan

  12. 24 February 1941 – 29 April 1944

    Sergii Voskresenskii 1897–1944

    Metropolitan

  13. 1945

    Cornelius Popov 1874–1966

    Archbishop

  14. 3 August 1948 – 27 December 1951

    Fotii Tapiro/Topiro 1884–1952

    Archbishop

  15. 1952

    Filaret Lebedev 1887–1958

    Locum tenens

  16. 1956 – 19 April 1959

    Aleksii Dekhteryov 1889–1959

    Bishop, then Archbishop

  17. 21 May 1959 – 18 July 1963

    Roman Tang 1893–1963

    Archbishop

  18. 25 August 1963 – 28 May 1971

    Anthony Varzhanskii 1890–1971

    Archbishop

  19. 25 June 1971 – 25 August 1972

    Hermogen Orekhov 1929–1980

    Bishop

  20. 3 September 1972 – 1974

    Anatolii Kuznetsov 1930–2024

    Bishop

  21. 3 September 1974 – 10 April 1978

    Herman Timofeyev b. 1937

    Bishop

  22. 10 April 1978 – 16 March 1990

    Victorin Belyayev 1903–1990

    Bishop, then Archbishop

  23. 22 April 1989 – 25 January 1990

    Anthony Cheremisov 1939–2026

    Bishop

  24. 24 December 2010 – present

    Innocent Vasiliev b. 1947

    Archbishop, then Metropolitan

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