Russian Old Orthodox Church
The Russian Old Orthodox Church ( Russian Русская Древлеправославная Церковь , scientific transliteration : Russkaja Drevlepravoslavnaja Cerkov ' ), belongs to the priestly Old Believers . It is led today by the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia . In addition to the Patriarch, it currently has four bishops in the eparchies : Belarus and Ukraine , Siberia , Volga , Zion and Western Europe , in 2004 it belonged to 74 parishes.
Patriarchs
Nikola (Pozdnev) | Archbishop of Moscow, Saratov and All Russia | December 19, 1923 - September 1, 1934 |
Stephan (Rastorguev) | locum tenens | 1934 - July 1935 |
Archbishop of Moscow and All Russia | July 1935 - September 2 [?] 1937 | |
Mikhail (Kochetov) | May 1938 - April 6, 1944 | |
Ioann (Kalinin) | October 14, 1944 - August 27, 1955 | |
Epiphaniy (Abramov) | Archbishop of Kuibyshev, Moscow and All Russia | November 5, 1955 - 1963 († 1965) |
Jeremiah (Matvievich) | Archbishop of Novosybkov, Moscow and All Russia | March 24, 1963 - June 17, 1969 |
Pavel (Mashinin) | July 27, 1969 - June 1977 | |
Varsonophiy (Ovsyannikov) | locum tenens | June 1977 - September 1979 |
Gennadiy (Antonov) | September 23, 1979 - February 21, 1996 | |
Aristarkh (Kalinin) | February 1996 - May 4, 2000 | |
Aleksandr (Kalinin) | Archbishop of Moscow and All Russia | May 8, 2000 - March 3, 2002 |
Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia | March 3, 2002 - Present |
literature
- Peter Hauptmann : Russia's Old Believers ; Göttingen 2005 (p. 184 ff.)
See also
- Belaya Krinitsa hierarchy (Belokrinickaja ierarchija)
- Belaya Krinitsa
- List of Russian denominations outside the Russian Orthodox Church
Web links
- Official Website (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Statistics on the Church . On: Website of the Old Believers of Samara