First Hierarchs of Russian Old-Orthodox Church
| Nikola (Pozdnev) | Archbishop of Moscow, Saratov and All Russia | December 19, 1923- September 1, 1934 |
| Stephan (Rastorguev) | locum tenens | 1934- July 1935 |
| " " " | Archbishop of Moscow and All Russia | July 1935- September 2, 1937 |
| Mikhail (Kochetov) | May 1938- April 6, 1944 | |
| Ioann (Kalinin) | October 14, 1944- August 27, 1955 | |
| Epiphaniy (Abramov) | Archbishop of Kuibyshev, Moscow and All Russia | November 5, 1955–1963 (d. 1965) |
| Jeremiah (Matvievich) | Archbishop of Novozybkov, Moscow and All Russia | March 24, 1963- June 17, 1969 |
| Pavel (Mashinin) | July 27, 1969- June 1977 | |
| Varsonophiy (Ovsyannikov) | locum tenens | June 1977- September 1979 |
| Gennadiy (Antonov) | September 23, 1979- February 2, 1996 | |
| Aristarkh (Kalinin) | February 1996- May 4, 2000 | |
| Aleksandr (Kalinin) | Archbishop of Moscow and All Russia | May 9, 2000- March 3, 2002 |
| " " " | Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia | March 3, 2002- present |
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