Orthodox Hierarchs

Patriarchate of Moscow

Volokolamsk

Vicariate of Moscow, the Patriarch of Moscow

Bishops 17

  1. 25 May 1887 – 1892

    Christopher Smirnov b. 1842

    Bishop

  2. 28 February 1899 – 1903

    Arsenii Stadnitskii 1862–1936

    Bishop

  3. 4 January 1904 – 1909

    Evdokim Meshcherskii 1869–1935

    Bishop

  4. 14 September 1909 – 1923

    Theodore Pozdeyevskii 1876–1937

    Bishop

  5. 14 September 1919 – 1928

    Herman Ryashentsev 1884–1937

    Bishop

  6. 1923 – 23 October 1937

    Theodore Pozdeyevskii 1876–1937

    Archbishop

  7. 4 June 1928 – 1928

    Pitirim Krylov 1895–1937

    Bishop

  8. 1931 – 15 April 1931

    Stephen Gnedovskii 1868–1931

    Bishop

  9. 8 June 1931 – September 1931

    Nikifor Nikolskii 1861–1942

    Bishop

  10. 29 September 1931 – 3 May 1934

    John Shirokov 1893–1937

    Bishop

  11. January 1936 – 30 July 1936

    John Sokolov 1877–1968

    Bishop

  12. 1 August 1936 – 19 August 1937

    John Shirokov 1893–1937

    Bishop

  13. 13 October 1941 – January 1942

    Aleksii Palitsyn 1881–1952

    Archbishop

  14. 14 June 1959 – 31 May 1960

    Basil Krivoshein 1900–1985

    Bishop

  15. 23 May 1963 – 4 November 2003

    Pitirim Nechayev 1926–2003

    Bishop, then Archbishop, then Metropolitan

  16. 31 March 2009 – 7 June 2022

    Hilarion Alfeyev b. 1966

    Bishop, then Archbishop, then Metropolitan

  17. 7 June 2022 – present

    Anthony Sevryuk b. 1984

    Metropolitan

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