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Archbishop of Black Sea &#038; 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 &#038; Germany (11\/24 February 1945)Arsenius (Chagovets), ret. Archbishop of Winnipeg (4 October 1945)Benedict (Bobkovsky), Archbishop of Berlin &#038; Germany (21 August\/3 September 1950 or 1951)Theodore (Rafalsky), Archbishop of Sydney, Australia &#038; New Zealand (23 April\/6 May 1955)Joasaph (Skorodumov), Archbishop of Argentina &#038; Paraguay (13\/26 November 1955)Hieronymus (Chernov), Archbishop of Detroit &#038; Flint (1\/14 May 1957)Gregory (Borishkevich), Archbishop of Chicago &#038; Cleveland (13\/26 October 1957)Vitalis (Maximenko), Archbishop of Eastern America &#038; Jersey City (8\/21 March 1960)Tikhon (Troitsky), Archbishop of Western America &#038; San Francisco (17\/30 March 1963)Stephen (Sevbo), Archbishop of Vienna &#038; Austria (12\/25 January 1965)John (Maximovich), Archbishop of Western America &#038; San Francisco (19 June\/2 July 1966)Theodosius (Samoilovich), Archbishop of S\u00e3o Paulo &#038; Brazil (13\/29 February 1968)Leontius (Filippovich), Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Chile &#038; Paraguay (19 June\/2 July 1971)Alexander (Lovchy), Archbishop of Berlin &#038; Germany (29 August\/11 September 1973)Ambrose (Merezhko), ret. Archbishop of Pittsburgh &#038; West Pennsylvania (26 November\/9 December 1975)Abercius (Taushev), Archbishop of Syracuse &#038; Trinity (31 March\/13 April 1976)Sabbas (Rayevsky), Archbishop of Sydney, Australia &#038; New Zealand (4\/17 April 1976)Nikon (Rklitsky), Archbishop of Washington &#038; Florida (22 August\/4 September 1976)Nicodemus (Nagayev), Archbishop of Richmond &#038; Great Britain (4\/17 October 1976)Andrew (Rymarenko), Archbishop of Rockland (29 June\/12 July 1978)Theodosius (Putilin), Archbishop of Sydney, Australia &#038; New Zealand (31 July\/13 August 1980)Athanasius (Martos), Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina &#038; Paraguay (21 October\/3 November 1983)Philotheus (Narko), Archbishop of Berlin &#038; Germany (11\/24 September 1986)Nathaniel (Lvov), Archbishop of Vienna &#038; Austria (27 October\/8 November 1986)Seraphim (Ivanov), Archbishop of Chicago, Detroit &#038; the Midwest (12\/25 July 1987)Anthony (Bartoshevich), Archbishop of Geneva &#038; Western Europe (25 August\/7 September 1993)Paul (Pavlov), ret. Archbishop of Sydney, Australia &#038; New Zealand (2\/15 February 1995)Anthony (Sinkevich), Archbishop of Los Angeles &#038; Southern California (18\/31 July 1996)Seraphim (Svezhevsky), ret. Archbishop of Caracas &#038; 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 &#038; Mid-America (28 April 2019)Agapit (Gorachek), Archbishop of Stuttgart, vicar of the German Diocese (28 May 2020)Bishops[edit]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 &#038; the Aleutians (15 March 1934)Gorazd (Pavl\u00edk), The Bishop of Czech (4 September 1942)Basil (Pavlovsky), Bishop of Vienna &#038; Austria (10\/23 October 1945)Eulogius (Markovsky), Bishop of Caracas &#038; Venezuela (1951)Leontius (Bartoshevich), Bishop of Geneva (6\/19 August 1956)John (Gevargizov), ret. Bishop of Salma &#038; Urmia (1962)Agapetus (Kryzhanovsky), ret. Bishop of Goiana (27 August\/9 September 1966)Sava (Sara\u010devi\u0107), ret. Bishop of Edmonton (17\/30 January 1973)Nectarius (Kontsevich), Bishop of Seattle (4\/26 January 1983)Nicander (Paderin), Bishop of S\u00e3o Paulo &#038; Brazil (2\/19 December 1987)Innocent (Petrov), Bishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina &#038; Paraguay (10\/23 December 1987)John (Legky), Bishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina &#038; Paraguay (20 February\/5 March 1995)Gregory (Grabbe), ret. Bishop of Washington &#038; 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 (Cantacuz\u00e8ne), ret. Bishop of Geneva and Western Europe (22 July 2009)Daniel (Alexandrov), Bishop of Erie (26 April 2010)Barnabas (Prokofiev), defrocked (in 2014) bishopBishops Who Departed the Ranks of the ROCOR Hierarchy[edit]Living:Reposed:Mitrophan (Abramov), went Serbian Orthodox Church in 1922Benjamin (Fedchenkov), went Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in 1923Platon (Rozhdestvensky), went Northern-American metropolis in 1924Eulogius (Georgievsky), went Western-European Metropolis in 1926Vladimir (Tikhonitsky), went Western-European Metropolis in 1926Sergius (Korolyov), went Western-European Metropolis in 1926Hermogenes (Maximov), went schism in 1942Meletius (Zaborovsky), went Moscow Patriarchate in 1945Victor (Svyatin), went Moscow Patriarchate in 1945Nestor (Anisimov), went Moscow Patriarchate in 1945Juvenal (Kilin), went Moscow Patriarchate in 1945Demetrius (Voznesensky), went Moscow Patriarchate in 1945Alexis (Panteleyev), went Moscow Patriarchate in 1945Seraphim (Loukianov), went Moscow Patriarchate in 1945Seraphim (Sobolev), went Moscow Patriarchate in 1945Philip (Gardner), Bishop of Potsdam. Defrocked in 1945. (9 December 1898 &#8211; 26 February 1984)Macarius (Ilyinsky), went Moscow Patriarchate in 1946Paul (Meletiev), went Catholic church in 1946Theophilus (Pashkovsky), went Northern-American metropolis in 1946Leontius (Turkevich), went Northern-American metropolis in 1946Demetrius (Magan), went Northern-American metropolis in 1946 (1 April 1970)John (Zlobin), went Northern-American metropolis in 1946Panteleimon (Rudyk), went Moscow Patriarchate in 1959James (Toombs), Bishop of Manhattan, went schism in 1959John-Nectaire (Kovalevsky), went schism in 1966Jakob (Akkersdijk), Bishop of Hague; went Moscow Patriarchate in 1972Kyrill (Yonchev), went OCA in 1976Valentine (Rusantsov), went schism in 1994Lazarus (Zhurbenko), went schism in 2001External links[edit]"},{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki10\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki10\/list-of-bishops-of-the-russian-orthodox-church-outside-of-russia\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"List of bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia"}}]}]