Hierarchs of the Nizhny Novgorod region
- Metropolitan Filaret (1672-1686)
- Metropolitan Pavel I (1686-1696)
- Metropolitan Trifily (Inikhov) (1696-1699)
- Metropolitan Isaiah (1699-1707)
- Metropolitan Sylwester (Volynsky) (1707-1719)
- Archbishop Pitirim (1719-1738)
- Bishop John I (Dubinsky) (1739-1742)
- Bishop Dimitry (Sechenov) (1742-1748)
- Bishop Benjamen I (Putsek-Grigorovich) (1748-1753)
- Bishop Theophan (Charnutsky) (1753-1773)
- Bishop Anthony (Zybelin) (1773-1782)
- Bishop Josaph (Zabolotsky) (1782-1783)
- Bishop Damaskin (Rudnev) (1783-1794)
- Bishop Pavel II (Ponomarev) (1794-1798)
- Bishop Benjamen (Krasnopevkov) (1798-1811)
- Bishop Moses (Bliznetsov-Platonov) (1811-1825)
- Bishop Methodius (Orlov) (1826-1826)
- Bishop Athanasius (Protopopov) (1827-1832)
- Bishop Ambrose (Morev) (1832-1835)
- Bishop John II (Dobrozrakov) (1835-1847)
- Archbishop Jacob (Becherkov) (1847-1850)
- Bishop Jeremiah (Soloviev) (1851-1857)
- Bishop Anthony (Pavlinsky) (1857-1860)
- Archbishop Nektarius (Nadezhdin) (1860-1869)
- Bishop Filaret (Malishevsky) (1869-1873)
- Archbishop Joannicius (Rudnev) (1873-1877)
- Bishop Chrysanthus (Retivtsev) (1877-1879)
- Bishop Macarius (Mirolyubov) (1879-1885)
- Bishop Modest (Strelbitsky) (1885-1889)
- Bishop Vladimir I (Petrov) (1889-1892)
- Bishop Vladimir II (Nikolsky) (1892-1900)
- Bishop Nazarius (Kirillov) (1901-1910)
- Archbishop Joachim (Levitsky) (1910-1918)
- Archbishop Eudocimus (Meschersky) (1918-1924)
- Metropolitan Sergius (Sragorodsky) (1924-1934)
- Metropolitan Eugene (Zernov) (1934-1935)
- Metropolitan Theophan (Tulyakov) (1935-1937)
- Archbishop Sergius (Grishin) (1942-1943)
- Bishop Zinovius (Krasovsky) (1944-1948)
- Metropolitan Kornilius (Popov) (1948-1961)
- Archbishop John (Alekseev) (1961-1965)
- Archbishop Mstislav (Volonsevich) (1965-1966)
- Archbishop Flavian (Dmitriyuk) (1966-1977)
- Metropolitan Nikolai (Kutepov) (1977-2001)
- Archbishop Eugene (Zhdan) (2001-2002)
- Archbishop Georgy (Danilov) (2003-2012)
- Metropolitan Georgy (Danilov) (since 2012)