Clerics of Novgorod and St. Petersburg (general article)

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RULING CLERICS, members of the upper church hierarchy in the St. Petersburg Eparchy, consisting of bishops, archbishops and metropolitans. The Eparchy was known as the Eparchy of St. Petersburg and Schliesselburg (1742-70), St. Petersburg and Revel (1770-75), Novgorod and St. Petersburg (1775-99), St. Petersburg, Estonia and Vyborg (1799), Novgorod, St. Petersburg, Estonia and Vyborg (1800-03), Novgorod, St. Petersburg, Estonia and Finland (1803-65), Novgorod, St. Petersburg and Finland (1865-92), St. Petersburg and Ladoga (1892-14 and from 1991), Petrograd and Ladoga (1914-17), Petrograd and Gdov (1917-22), Leningrad (1926-27, 1933-43), Leningrad and Gdov (1928-33), Leningrad and Novgorod (1943-59, 1967-90), Leningrad and Ladoga (1959-67, 1990-91) and was led by a Bishop (1742-45), Archbishop (1745-83 and 1799-1801), and Metropolitan (1783-99 and since 1801). Traditionally, St. Petersburg ruling clerics were at the same time superiors of St. Alexander Nevsky Monastery (the monastery has been called Lavra since 1797). Since 1742, there have been 31 hierarchs in St. Petersburg (including Petrograd and Leningrad): Nikodim (Srebnitsky) (1742-45), Theodosius (Yankovsy) (1745-50), Silvestr (Kulyabka) (1750-61), Veniamin (Putsek-Grigorovich) (1761-62), Gavriil (Kremenetsky) (1762-70), Gavriil (Petrov-Shaposhnikov) (1770-99), Amvrosy (Podobedov) (1799-1818), Mikhail (Desnitsky) (1818-21), Seraphim (Glagolevsky) (1821-43), Antony (Rafalsky) (1843-48), Nikanor (Klementyevsky) (1848-56), Grigory (Postnikov) (1856-60), Isidor (Nikolsky) (1860-92), Pallady (Raev-Pisarev) (1892-98), Antony (Vadkovsky) (1898-1912), Vladimir (Bogoyavlensky) (1912-15), Pitirim (Oknov) (1915-17), Veniamin (Kazansky) (1917-22), Iosif (Petrovyh) (1926-27), Seraphim (Chichagov) (1928-33), Alexy (Simansky) (1933-45), Grigory (Chukov) (1945-55), Elevfery (Vorontsov) (1955-59), Pitirim (Sviridov) (1959-60), Gury (Yegorov) (1960-61), Pimen (Izvekov) (1961-63), Nikodim (Rotov) (1963-78), Antony (Melnikov) (1978-86), Alexy (Ridiger) (1986-90), Ioann (Snychev) (1990-95), and Vladimir (Kotlyarov) (since 1996).

References: Бовкало А. А., Галкин А. К. Правящие архиереи Санкт-Петербургской - Петроградской - Ленинградской епархии: Хронол. список // Христиан. чтение. 1991. [№] 2. С. 55-64; Очерки истории Санкт-Петербургской епархии. СПб., 1994; Руководители Санкт-Петербурга. СПб.; М., 2003. С. 287-338.

A. I. Razdorsky. Alexy II (Ridiger Alexey Mikhailovich), Patriarch
Alexy (Sergey Vladimirovich Simansky), Metropolitan
Amvrosy (Andrey Ivanovich Podobedov), Metropolitan
Antony (Alexander Vasilievich Vadkovsky), Metropolitan
Antony (Melnikov)
Antony (Rafalsky)
Elevfery (Vorontsov), Metropolitan
Feodosy (Yankovsky), Archbishop
Gavriil (Kremenetsky), Archbishop
Gavriil (Peter Petrovich Petrov-Shaposhnikov), Metropolitan
Grigory (Nikolay Kirillovich Chukov), Metropolitan
Grigory (Postnikov), Metropolitan
Gury (Egorov), Metropolitan
Ioann (Ivan Matveevich Snychev), Metropolitan
Iosif (Petrovyh)
Isidor (Yakov Sergeevich Nikolsky)
Mikhail (Desnitsky), Metropolitan
Nikanor (Klementyevsky), Metropolitan
Nikodim (Boris Georgievich Rotov), Metropolitan
Nikodim (Srebnitsky), Bishop
Pallady (Raev-Pisarev Pavel Ivanovich), Metropolitan
Pimen (Izvekov), Patriarch
Pitirim (Oknov), Metropolitan
Pitirim (Sviridov), Metropolitan
Serafim (Chichagov), Metropolitan
Serafim (Stefan Vasilievich Glagolevsky), Metropolitan
Silvester (Semen Petrovich Kulyabka), Archbishop
Veniamin (Putsek-Grigorovich)
Veniamin (Vasily Pavlovich Kazansky), Metropolitan
Vladimir (Bogoyavlensky), Metropolitan
Vladimir (Vladimir Savvich Kotlyarov), Metropolitan
Бовкало А. А., Галкин А. К. Правящие архиереи Санкт-Петербургской - Петроградской - Ленинградской епархии: Хронол. список // Христиан. чтение, 1991
Руководители Санкт-Петербурга. СПб.; М., 2003
Очерки истории Санкт-Петербургской епархии. СПб., 1994 St. Petersburg Eparchy
Alexander Nevsky Lavra