Office Christianity

metropolitan

Metropolita la

Ecclesiastical office, archbishop at the head of a metropolitan archdiocese

Overview

ecclesiastical office, archbishop at the head of a metropolitan archdioceseWikidata record description. Read Metropolitan bishop in the Wikipedia reader.

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A sequence of office-holders, not a family genealogy.

1437 CE – 1440 CE Basilios Bessarion Greek theologian, cardinal bishop and Latin Patriarch of Constantinople (1403-1472)
Gap about 524 years with no holder recorded

from 1964 CE Patriarch Alexius II 15th Patriarch of Moscow and all the Rus', the primate of the Russian Orthodox Church (1929–2008)
Overlap held at the same time as Patriarch Alexius II

25 February 1991 CE – 1 February 2009 CE Kirill bishop, priest, eastern Orthodox priest, eastern Orthodox bishop, patriarch

No dates recorded 11

Dates unrecorded Alexy I of Moscow Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus' (1877–1970)
Dates unrecorded Pimen I of Moscow Russian bishop (1910–1990)
Dates unrecorded Nikodim Russian archbishop
Dates unrecorded Hilarion (Alfeyev) Russian bishop
Dates unrecorded Innocent of Alaska Russian bishop and saint (1797–1879)
Dates unrecorded Vladimir (Bogoyavlensky) Metropolitan of Kyiv and Gallich (1915–1918), Metropolitan of Moscow (1898–1912)
Dates unrecorded Macarius III Ibn al-Za'im Melkite Patriarch of Antioch
Dates unrecorded Anthim the Iberian Eastern Orthodox theologian
Dates unrecorded Dimitry of Rostov Orthodox monk, archbishop and saint (1651-1709)
Dates unrecorded Stefan Branković Despot of Serbia
Dates unrecorded Alexius, Metropolitan of Moscow Metropolitan of Russia

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