Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia
His Holiness Kirill is the Patriarch of Moscow, and head of the Russian Orthodox Church, including the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia.
Metropolitan Nicholas
His Eminence Metropolitan Nicholas of Eastern America and New York, First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia.
Bishop Spyridon of Chicago and Mid-America
Bishop Spyridon, born Sergey Valentinovich Gusakov on May 25, 1959, in the city of Kropotkin, Krasnodar Region, Russia, into a military family. He was baptized in July, 1959, with the name Sergiy in the city of Kropotkino. In 2012, he entered the Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary in Jordanville, which he graduated from in 2016. On November 20, 2016, he was ordained to the rank of deacon. In December of the same year, he was tonsured a monk. His service as a hierodeacon took place at St Nicholas Cathedral in Montreal. He participated in and assisted Archbishop Gabriel of Montreal and Canada during his visits to all the parishes of the Canadian diocese. On August 26, 2018, he was ordained to the rank of hieromonk and assigned to serve as the rector of the Church of St John, Archbishop of Shanghai, Wonderworker of San Francisco, in Calgary (Alberta). On April 8, 2022, he was tonsured into the Lesser Schema with the name Spyridon, in honor of St Spyridon, Bishop of Trimythous. On December 11, 2025, he was nominated Bishop of Toronto, Vicar of the Canadian Diocese. On Sunday, February 8, 2026, on the Sunday of the Prodigal Son and the day of the commemoration of the Council of New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church, he was elevated to the rank of archimandrite. On Thursday, February 12, on the Feast of the Three Holy Hierarchs, his episcopal ordination as Bishop of Toronto, vicar of the Canadian Diocese, was performed at the Holy Trinity Monastery. On Monday, 4 May, in discussing the question of filling the vacant See of Mid-America, the Council of Bishops resolved to release Archbishop Gabriel of Montreal and Canada from the administration of the Mid-American Diocese, expressing gratitude to him for his labours, and to appoint His Grace Bishop Spiridon as Bishop of Chicago and Mid-America.
Diocese of Chicago and Mid-America website.
Father Moses McPherson
After graduation from St. Tikhon’s seminary, Fr. Moses was ordained to the Holy Priesthood on June 2, 2013.