List of heads of the Russian Orthodox Church

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This is a list of heads of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Metropolitan of Kiev and all Rus[]

Kiev Metropolitanate (988–1054)[]

  1. St. Michael I (988–992)
  2. (992–1008)
  3. (1008 – until 1018)
  4. (1008/18 – c. 1030)
  5. (c. 1035 – 1040th)
  6. [a]
  7. Hilarion I (1051–1054)[b]

Kiev Metropolitanate (1054–1458)[]

  1. (1054/1055 – c. 1065)
  2. (c. 1065 – c. 1076)
  3. (not later than 1076/1077 – after August 1089)
  4. (summer 1090 – before 14 August 1091)
  5. (c. 1093 – before 1104)
  6. (18 December 1104 – April 1121)
  7. (15 October 1122 – 9 March 1126)
  8. (summer 1130 – 1145)
  9. Kliment Smoliatich (27 July 1147 – early 1155)
  10. (1156 – 1158/1159)
  11. Theodore (August 1160 – June 1163)
  12. (spring 1164 – 1166)
  13. (1167 – 1169/1170)
  14. (spring 1171 – ?)
  15. (before 1183 – after 1201)
  16. (before 1210 – 19 August 1220)
  17. (1224/1225 – autumn 1233)
  18. (1242/1247 – ?)
  19. (1242/1247 – 27 November 1281)
  20. St. Maximus (1283 – 6 December 1305[c])
  21. St. Peter (1308 – 21 December 1326)
  22. St. Theognostus (1328–1353)
  23. St. Alexius (1354–1378)
  24.  [ru] (1379)
  25. St. Cyprian (1381–1383)
  26. Pimen (1382 – 1384[d])
  27. St. Dionysius (1383–1385)
  28. Cyprian (1390–1406)
  29. St. Photius (1408–1431)
  30. (1433–1435)
  31. Isidore (1437–1458)
  32. St. John (1448–1461)

During the archiepiscopacy of Metropolitan Isidore of Moscow co-ruled Metropolitan John (1448–1461). From 1461, after the early autocephaly of the Eastern-Russian eparchies within the Muskovy, Metropolitans who had a cathedra in Moscow were called Metropolitan of Moscow and all Rus (or Russia).

Metropolitan of Moscow and all Rus[]

  1. Theodosius (3 May 1461 – 13 September 1464)
  2. Philip I (11 November 1464 – 5 April 1473)
  3. St. Gerontius (29 June 1473 – 28 May 1489)
  4. Zosimus (26 September 1490 – 9 February 1495)
  5. Simon (22 September 1495 – 30 April 1511)
  6. Barlaam (3 August 1511 – 18 December 1521)
  7. Daniel (27 February 1522 – 2 February 1539)
  8. St. Joasaphus (6 February 1539 – January 1542)
  9. St. Macarius (19 March 1542 – 31 December 1563)
  10. Athanasius (5 March 1564 – 16 May 1566)
  11. St. Philip II (25 July 1566 – 4 November 1568)
  12. Cyril IV (11 November 1568 – 8 February 1572)
  13. Anthony (May 1572 – early 1581)
  14. Dionisyus (1581 – 13 October 1586)
  15. Job (11 December 1586 – 23 January 1589)

Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus[]

First Patriarchial Period (1589—1721)[]

Patriarch Worldly name Period Portrait
St. Job Ivan 23 January 1589 June 1605 Patriarch Job of Moscow.jpg
Ignatius[e] 30 June 1605 May 1606
St. Hermogenes Yermolay 3 June 1606 17 February 1612 Patriarch Germogen (tsarskiy titulyarnik) 2.jpg
Philaret Fyodor Nikitich Romanov 24 June 1619 1 October 1633 Philaret.jpg
Joasaphus I 6 February 1634 28 November 1640 Joasaphus I from Tsarsky titulyarnik.jpg
Joseph Dyakov 27 May 1642 15 April 1652 Patriarch Iosif.jpg
Nikon Nikita Minin (Minov) 25 July 1652 12 December 1666 Portrait of Patriarx Nikon.jpg
Joasaphus II Novotorzhets (nickname) 10 February 1667 17 February 1672 Joasaphus II from Tsarsky titulyarnik.jpg
Pitirim 7 July 1672 19 April 1673 Pitirim from Tsarsky titulyarnik.jpg
Joachim Ivan Petrovich Savelov 26 June 1674 17 March 1690 Icon 02044 Patriarh Ioakim Moskovskij 1620-1690. Neizv. hud. XVII v. Rossiya.jpg
Adrian[f] Andrey 24 August 1690 16 October 1700 Patriarkh Adrian.jpg

Procurators of the Most Holy Synod[]

The Ober-Procurator (Attorney-General) was a non-clerical officer who headed the Most Holy Synod from 1722 to 1917.

  1. (19 June 1722 – 11 May 1725)[1]
    • From 1726 to 31 December 1741 the office procurator was vacant.
  2. (11 May 1725 – 2 December 1730)[1]
    • Guardian Captain Rayevsky (14 Jule 1726 as "procurator")[2][g]
    • Office vacant until 1740
  3. (3 November 1740 – 1741[1])
  4. Yakov Petrovich Shakhovskoy (31 December 1741 – 29 March 1753)
  5. (18 December 1753 – 17 April 1758)
  6. (17 April 1758 – 9 June 1763)
  7. (10 June 1763 – 24 October 1768)
  8. (24 October 1768 – 7 May 1774)
  9. (12 May 1774 – 28 July 1786)
  10. (28 July 1786 – 26 July 1791)
  11. Count Aleksey Ivanovich Musin-Pushkin (1791–1797)
  12. Prince (1797–1799)
  13. Count Dmitry Ivanovich Khvostov (1799–1802)
  14. (31 December 1802 – 7 October 1803[1])
  15. Prince (21 October 1803 – 24 October[3] or 19 November[1] 1817[h])
  16. Prince (24 November 1817 – 2 April 1833)
  17. Stepan Dmitriyevich Nechayev (1833 – 25 June 1836)
  18. Count Nikolay Aleksandrovich Protasov (24 February 1836 – 16 January 1855)
  19. (25 December 1855 – 20 September 1856)
  20. Count (20 September 1856 – 28 February 1862)
  21. (March 1862 – June 1865)
  22. Count Dmitry Andreyevich Tolstoy (23 June 1865 – 23 April 1880)
  23. Konstantin Petrovich Pobedonostsev (24 April 1880 – 19 October 1905)
  24. Prince (20 October 1905 – 4 April 1906)
  25. Prince (26 April – 9 July 1906)
  26. (27 July 1906 – 5 February 1909)
  27. (5 February 1909 – 2 May 1911)
  28. (2 May 1911 – 4 July 1915)
  29. (5 July 1915 – 26 September 1915)
  30. Aleksandr Nikolayevich Volzhin (1 October 1915 – 7 August 1916)
  31. (30 August[4] 1916 – 3 March 1917)
  32. (3 March 1917 – 24 July 1917)
  33. Anton Vladimirovich Kartashyov (25 July – 5 August 1917).

Second Patriarchial Period (since 1917)[]

Patriarch Worldly name Period Portrait
St. Tikhon Vasily Ivanovich Bellavin 4 (21) December 1917 7 April 1925 Патриарх Тихон.jpg
Sergius Ivan Nikolayevich Stragorodsky 8 September 1943 15 May 1944 Митрополит Сергий (ЖМП).jpg
Alexius I Sergey Vladimirovich Simansky 2 February 1945 17 April 1970
Pimen Sergey Mikhailovich Izvekov 2 June 1971 3 May 1990 Patriarch Pimen.JPG
Alexius II Alexey Mikhailovich Ridiger 10 June 1990 5 December 2008 Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow.png
Kirill Vladimir Mikhailovich Gundyaev 1 February 2009 Incumbent Patriarch Kirill of Moscow.jpg

Notes[]

  1. ^ Is not listed in Russian Chronicles; probably 1039–1051
  2. ^ First Russian Metropolitan
  3. ^ Before 1299 in Kiev, then in Vladimir
  4. ^ Factually until 1389
  5. ^ As Ignatius was personally elected by False Dmitriy I and during the rule of Patriarch Job, he was not the legitimate Patriarch of Moscow. After death of the monarch, Ignatius was removed from office in a Council.
  6. ^ No successor after the death of Patriarch Adrian. From 1700–1721 the keeper of the Patriarchial throne (Exarch) was Metropolitan Stefan (Yavorsky) of Yaroslavl. After Peter I opened the in 1721, the highest church body became the Most Holy Synod. The Patriarchy was recovered by the National Orthodox Council on 28 October 11 November 1917
  7. ^ Sometimes – probably falsely – listed as Ober-Procurator
  8. ^ Until May 1824 Minister of Religious Affairs and Public Education

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d e Высшие и центральные государственные учреждения России. 1801—1917. Saint Petersburg: Nauka, 1998, vol. 1, p. 135.
  2. ^ Государственность России. Moscow, 2001, vol. 4, p. 109.
  3. ^ D. N. Shilov. Государственные деятели Российской империи. Saint Petersburg, 2002, p. 186.
  4. ^ D. N. Shilov. Государственные деятели Российской империи. Главы высших и центральных учреждений. 1802—1917. Saint Petersburg, 2002, p. 620

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