# List of bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia

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

## Living
### First Hierarchs

* Nicholas (Olhovsky), Metropolitan of Eastern America and New York, First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia

### Metropolitans

* Mark (Arndt), Metropolitan of Berlin & Germany

### Archbishops

* Kyrill (Dmitrieff), Archbishop of San Francisco & Western America
* Gabriel (Chemodakov), Archbishop of Montreal & Canada
* Vacant Archbishop of Chicago & Mid-America
* George (Schaefer), Archbishop of Sydney, Australia & New Zealand

### Bishops

* John (Bērziņš), Bishop of Caracas and South America
* Irenei (Steenberg), Bishop of London and Western Europe
* Theodosius (Ivashchenko), Bishop of Seattle, vicar of the Western American Diocese
* Luke (Murianka), Bishop of Syracuse, vicar of the Eastern American Diocese
* Alexander (Echevaria), Bishop of Vevey, vicar of the Western European Diocese
* James (Corazza), Bishop of Sonora, second vicar of the Western American Diocese
* Job (Bandmann), Bishop of Stuttgart, vicar of the German Diocese

### Retired Bishops

* Retired Diocesan Bishops:
** Michael (Donskoff), retired Archbishop of Geneva & Western Europe
* Retired Vicar Bishops:
** Jerome (Shaw), retired Bishop of Manhattan
* Bishops Received into the ROCOR in Retirement:
** Jonah (Paffhausen), retired; former Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada in the OCA
** Nikolai (Soraich), retired; former Bishop of Sitka and Alaska in the OCA

## Reposed (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)
* Hilarion (Kapral), Metropolitan of Eastern America & New York (16 May 2022)

### 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)
* Alypius (Gamanovich), ret. Archbishop of Chicago & Mid-America (28 April 2019)
* Agapit (Gorachek), Archbishop of Stuttgart, vicar of the German Diocese (28 May 2020)
* Peter (Loukianoff), Archbishop of CHicago & Mid-America (8 November 2024)

### 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)
* Sava (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)
* Barnabas (Prokofiev), defrocked (in 2014) bishop

## Bishops Who Departed the Ranks of the ROCOR Hierarchy

* Living:
** Benjamin (Rusalenko), went into schism in 2001
** Agathangel (Pashkovsky), went into schism in 2007
** Eutychus (Kurochkin), went Moscow Patriarchate in 2007
** Archbishop Gregory of Denver and Northern America went into schism in 2000
* Reposed:
** Mitrophan (Abramov), went Serbian Orthodox Church in 1922
** Benjamin (Fedchenkov), went Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople 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