Eparchy of Nizhny Novgorod

The Eparchy of Nizhny Novgorod and Arzamas, also Diocese of Nizhny Novgorod and Arzamas, is a diocese of the Church of Russia located in the area of northern European Russia around the confluence of the Volga and Oka Rivers.

History

The eparchy was established in 1672 and included, in addition to the city of Nizhny Novgorod, the towns of Alatyr, Kurmysh, and Yadrin. The first hierarch of the eparchy was Archimandrite Filaret, who had been abbot of Pechersky Ascension Monastery in Nizhny Novgorod, The ruling hierarchs initially received the title of Metropolitan of Nizhny Novgorod and Alatyr. Through the centuries the rank of the ruling hierarch of the eparchy has changed, being variously metropolitan, archbishop, and bishop. In 1799, the title of the hierarch became '...of Nizhny Novgorod and Arzamas', and the territory of the Eparchy of Nizhny Novgorod coincided with the Nizhny Novgorod province. At the present time, the borders of the eparchy of Nizhny Novgorod coincides with the borders of the Nizhny Novgorod region.

Ruling hierarchs

• Metropolitan Filaret 1672-1686
• Metropolitan Pavel I 1686-1696
• Metropolitan Trifily (Inikhov) 1696-1699
• Metropolitan Isaiah 1699-1707
• Metropolitan Sylwester (Volynsky) 1707-1719
• Archbishop Pitirim 1719-1738
• Bishop John I (Dubinsky) 1739-1742
• Bishop Dimitry (Sechenov) 1742-1748
• Bishop Benjamin I (Putsek-Grigorovich) 1748-1753
• Bishop Theophan (Charnutsky) 1753-1773
• Bishop Anthony (Zybelin) 1773-1782
• Bishop Josaph (Zabolotsky) 1782-1783
• Bishop Damaskin (Rudnev) 1783-1794
• Bishop Pavel II (Ponomarev) 1794-1798
• Bishop Benjamen (Krasnopevkov) 1798-1811
• Bishop Moses (Bliznetsov-Platonov) 1811-1825
• Bishop Methodius (Orlov) 1826-1826
• Bishop Athanasius (Protopopov) 1827-1832
• Bishop Ambrose (Morev) 1832-1835
• Bishop John II (Dobrozrakov) 1835-1847
• Archbishop Jacob (Becherkov) 1847-1850
• Bishop Jeremiah (Soloviev) 1851-1857
• Bishop Anthony (Pavlinsky) 1857-1860
• Archbishop Nektarius (Nadezhdin) 1860-1869
• Bishop Filaret (Malishevsky) 1869-1873
• Archbishop Joannicius (Rudnev) 1873-1877
• Bishop Chrysanthus (Retivtsev) 1877-1879
• Bishop Macarius (Mirolyubov) 1879-1885
• Bishop Modest (Strelbitsky) 1885-1889
• Bishop Vladimir I (Petrov) 1889-1892
• Bishop Vladimir II (Nikolsky) 1892-1900
• Bishop Nazarius (Kirillov) 1901-1910
• Archbishop Joachim (Levitsky) 1910-1918
• Archbishop Evdokim (Meschersky) 1918-1924
• Metropolitan Sergius (Stragorodsky) 1924-1934
• Metropolitan Eugene (Zernov) 1934-1935
• Metropolitan Theophan (Tulyakov) 1935-1937
• Archbishop Sergius (Grishin) 1942-1943
• Bishop Zinovius (Krasovsky) 1944-1948
• Metropolitan Kornilius (Popov) 1948-1961
• Archbishop John (Alekseev) 1961-1965
• Archbishop Mstislav (Volonsevich) 1965-1966
• Archbishop Flavian (Dmitriyuk) 1966-1977
• Metropolitan Nikolai (Kutepov) 1977-2001
• Archbishop Eugene (Zhdan) 2001-2002
• Archbishop Georgy (Danilov) 2003 - present

Source

• Diocese of Nizhny Novgorod and Arzamas