This is a directory of patriarchs, archbishops, and bishops across various Christian denominations. To find an individual who was a bishop, see the most relevant article linked below or :Bishops.

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Catholic

Bishop in the Catholic Church In the Catholic Church, a bishop is an ordained minister who holds the fullness of the sacrament of holy orders and is responsible for teaching doctrine, governing Catholics in his jurisdiction, sanctifying the world and representing the Chu ...

Catholic Church hierarchy The hierarchy of the Catholic Church consists of its bishops, priests, and deacons. In the ecclesiological sense of the term, "hierarchy" strictly means the "holy ordering" of the Church, the Body of Christ, so to respect the diversity of gifts ...

* List of bishops and prince-bishops of Liège *

List of Catholic archdioceses The following is a current list of Catholic archdioceses ordered by continent and country (for the Latin Church) and by liturgical rite (for the Eastern Catholic Churches). Many smaller countries, as well as large countries with small Catholic p ...

(by country and continent) *

List of Catholic bishops in the Philippines The Catholic Church in the Philippines is organized into 72 dioceses in 16 ecclesiastical provinces, as well as 7 apostolic vicariates and a military ordinariate. Each province has a metropolitan see, metropolitan archdiocese led by an Bishop (C ...

List of Catholic bishops in the United States The following is a list of bishops of the Catholic Church in the United States, including its five Territories of the United States, inhabited territories. The U.S. Catholic Church comprises: * 176 Latin Church dioceses led by bishops * 18 Ea ...

* List of Catholic bishops of India * List of Catholic dioceses (alphabetical) (including archdioceses) (in the world) *

List of Catholic dioceses (structured view) As of October 5, 2021, the Catholic Church in its entirety comprises 3,171 ecclesiastical jurisdictions, including over 652 archdioceses and 2,248 dioceses, as well as apostolic vicariates, apostolic exarchates, apostolic administrations, ap ...

(including archdioceses) (in the world) * List of living cardinals (sortable by name, country, and birthdate) *

List of popes This chronological list of popes corresponds to that given in the ''Annuario Pontificio'' under the heading "I Sommi Pontefici Romani" (The Roman Supreme Pontiffs), excluding those that are explicitly indicated as antipopes. Published every y ...

Eastern Orthodox

* List of American and Canadian Orthodox bishops *

List of bishops and archbishops of Novgorod {{short description, None This is a list of the Bishops and Archbishops of Novgorod the Great from the Christianization of Rus' in 988 to the establishment of the Metropolitanate in Novgorod in 1589. Bishops of Novgorod 989–1163 * Ioakim Kors ...

* List of Eastern Orthodox bishops and archbishops *

List of heads of the Serbian Orthodox Church This article lists the heads of the Serbian Orthodox Church, since the establishment of the church as an autocephalous archbishopric in 1219 to today's patriarchate. The list includes all the archbishops and patriarchs that led the Serbian Ortho ...

* List of Metropolitans and Patriarchs of Moscow *

List of primates of the Orthodox Church in America This article is a list of primates of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA). Prior to the early 1920s, all Russian Orthodox Christians on the North American continent were under the direct jurisdiction of the Russian Orthodox Church. This North ...

Oriental Orthodox

List of Abunas of Eritrea The Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church is part of the Oriental Orthodox communion, and it was granted autocephaly by Shenouda III, Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church, in 1994 — a year after Eritrea gained its independence from Ethiopia. Shen ...

* List of Abunas of Ethiopia * List of Armenian catholicoi of Cilicia * List of Armenian patriarchs of Constantinople * List of Armenian patriarchs of Jerusalem *

List of catholicoi of all Armenians This is a list of the catholicoi of all Armenians ( hy, Ամենայն Հայոց Կաթողիկոս), head bishops of the Armenian Apostolic Church ( hy, Հայ Առաքելական Եկեղեցի). To this day 21 Catholicoi of a total of 132 ha ...

* List of Caucasian Albanian catholicoi *

List of Coptic Orthodox Popes of Alexandria The following is a list of all of the Coptic Orthodox popes who have led the Coptic Orthodox Church and have succeeded the Apostle Mark the Evangelist in the office of Bishop of Alexandria, who founded the Church in the 1st century, and marke ...

* List of maphrians * List of metropolitans of the Indian Orthodox Church * List of patriarchs of Eritrea * List of Syriac Orthodox Patriarchs of Antioch

Protestant

List of Anglican dioceses A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America * SC Germania List, German rugby union ...

** List of current Anglican Primates ** List of bishops of the Church of England ** List of bishops of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America **

List of presiding bishops in the Episcopal Church in the United States of America This is a list of the Presiding Bishops of the Episcopal Church in the United States. Initially the position of Presiding Bishop rotated geographically. After 1795 the Presiding Bishop was the senior bishop in order of consecration. Starting in 1 ...

List of Lutheran dioceses and archdioceses This is a list of Lutheran dioceses and archdioceses currently active, grouped by national (or regional) church, and showing the titles of the bishops of those dioceses. Where relevant, the metropolitan bishop or primate is listed first. As in ...

List of bishops of the Anglican Church in North America A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America * SC Germania List, German rugby union ...

* List of bishops of the Reformed Episcopal Church * List of bishops of the United Methodist Church * List of Charismatic Episcopal Church bishops

External links

All Catholic bishops, archbishops, patriarchs and cardinals
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Catholic bishops and their apostolic succession
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Independent Movement Database
– Database of Independent Bishops and Priest
The World of Autocephalous Churches

The Council of Bishops of the United Methodist Church
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