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List of bishops of the Diocese of Kazan

The list of the Hierarchs of the Diocese of Kazan begins with the first hierarch to govern the Diocese of Kazan, St. Gury (Rugotin), who was assigned to the new see in the year 1555. The diocese was formed almost immediately after the conquest of Kazan by Tsar Ivan IV (the Terrible) in 1555. During its existence the diocese has had different titles due to changing political and territorial responsibilities.

Ruling hierarchs of the Diocese of Kazan

As Archbishops of Kazan

As Metropolitan of Kazan and Astrakhan

  • Metropolitan St. Hermogen 1589 to 1606 to Patriarch of All Russia

As Metropolitans of Kazan and Sviyazhsk

  • Metropolitan St. Ephraim 1606 to 1613 Reposed in office
  • Metropolitan Matthew 1615 to 1646 Reposed in office
  • Metropolitan Simon 1646 to 1649 Reposed in office
  • Metropolitan Cornelius I 1650 to 1656 Reposed in office
  • Metropolitan Lavrenty II 1657 to 1672 Reposed in office
  • Metropolitan Cornelius II 1673 to 1674 Did not reach Kazan, transferred to Novgorod

As Metropolitan of Kazan and Bulgaria

  • Metropolitan Ioasaph 1674 to 1686 Reposed in office

As Metropolitan of Kazan

As Archbishops of Kazan and Simbirsk

As Archbishops of Kazan and Sviyazhsk

  • Archbishop Vladimir I (Uzhinsky) 1836 to 1848
  • Metropolitan Gregory (Postnikov) 1848 to 1856
  • Archbishop Athanasy (Sokolov) 1856 to 1866
  • Archbishop Anthony II (Amphitheaters) 1866 to 1879
  • Archbishop Sergei (Lyapidevsky) 1880 to 1882
  • Archbishop Pallady (Raev-Pisarev) 1882 to 1887
  • Archbishop Pavel II (Lebedev) 1887 to 1892
  • Archbishop Vladimir II (Petrov) 1892 to 1897
  • Archbishop Arseny 1897 to 1903
  • Archbishop Dimitri I 1903 to 1905
  • Archbishop Dimitri II (Sambikin) 1905 to 1908
  • Archbishop Nikanor (Kamensky) 1908 to 1910
  • Metropolitan Jacob (Pjatnitsky) 1910 to 1918
  • Metropolitan Cyril (Smirnov) 1918 to 1922 Exiled Martyred
  • Archbishop Mitrophan (Polikarpov) 1925 Martyred
  • Archbishop Ioann (Shirokov) 1925 to 1930 Martyred
  • Archbishop Ireney (Shulmin) 1930 Martyred
  • Archbishop Athanassy (Malinin) 1930 to 1933
  • Metropolitan Seraphim (Alexandrov) 1933 to 1936 Martyred
  • Archbishop Benedict (Plotnikov) 1936 to 1937 Martyred
  • Archbishop Nikon (Purlevsky) 1937
  • Archbishop Andrei (Komarov) 1942 to 1944

As Bishops of Kazan and Chistopol

  • Archbishop Hilary (Iliin) 1944 to 1945
  • Archbishop Hermogen (Kozhin) 1946 to 1949
  • Bishop Justin (Maltsev) 1949 to 1950
  • Archbishop Sergius II (Korolev) 1950 to 1952

As Bishops of Kazan and Mari

Archbishop of Kazan and Tatarstan

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