This is a list of heads of the Russian Orthodox Church.
During the archiepiscopacy of Metropolitan Isidore of Moscow co-ruled Metropolitan John (1448–1461). From 1461, after the early autocephaly of the Eastern-Russian eparchies within the Muskovy, Metropolitans who had a cathedra in Moscow were called Metropolitan of Moscow and all Rus (or Russia).
Patriarch | Worldly name | Period | Portrait | |
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St. Job | Ivan | 23 January 1589 | June 1605 | |
Ignatius | 30 June 1605 | May 1606 | ||
St. Hermogenes | Yermolay | 3 June 1606 | 17 February 1612 | |
Philaret | Fyodor Nikitich Romanov | 24 June 1619 | 1 October 1633 | |
Joasaphus I | 6 February 1634 | 28 November 1640 | ||
Joseph | Dyakov | 27 May 1642 | 15 April 1652 | |
Nikon | Nikita Minin (Minov) | 25 July 1652 | 12 December 1666 | |
Joasaphus II | Novotorzhets (nickname) | 10 February 1667 | 17 February 1672 | |
Pitirim | 7 July 1672 | 19 April 1673 | ||
Joachim | Ivan Petrovich Savelov | 26 June 1674 | 17 March 1690 | |
Adrian | Andrey | 24 August 1690 | 16 October 1700 |
The Ober-Procurator (Attorney-General) was a non-clerical officer who headed the Most Holy Synod from 1722 to 1917.
Patriarch | Worldly name | Period | Portrait | |
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St. Tikhon | Vasily Ivanovich Bellavin | 4 (21) December 1917 | 7 April 1925 | |
Sergius | Ivan Nikolayevich Stragorodsky | 8 September 1943 | 15 May 1944 | |
Alexius I | Sergey Vladimirovich Simansky | 2 February 1945 | 17 April 1970 | |
Pimen | Sergey Mikhailovich Izvekov | 2 June 1971 | 3 May 1990 | |
Alexius II | Alexey Mikhailovich Ridiger | 10 June 1990 | 5 December 2008 | |
Kirill | Vladimir Mikhailovich Gundyaev | 1 February 2009 | Incumbent |
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