title: Diocese of Saratov
text: # Diocese of Saratov
  
  Diocese of Saratov and Volsk (Russian: Саратовская и Вольская епархия) is an eparchy of the Russian Orthodox Church based in Saratov. The mother cathedral is the Church of the Protection of the Theotokos.
  
  ## Former Bishops
  
  * Guy (Tacan): October 16, 1799 – January 10, 1808 (after December 4, 1803, see Penza diocese)
  * Moses (Bogdanov-Antipov-Platonov): November 29, 1828 – March 12, 1832
  * Jacob (Vecherkov): March 27, 1832 – January 13, 1847
  * Athanasius (Drozdov): January 13, 1847 – April 15, 1856
  * Ioanniky (Gorski): April 15, 1856 – July 17, 1860
  * Euthymios (Belikov): August 29, 1860 – October 17, 1863
  * Ioanniky (Ore): January 13, 1864 – July 13, 1873
  * Tikhon (Basil): July 13, 1873 – March 6, 1882
  * Paul (Wilczynski): April 5, 1882 – December 16, 1889
  * Abraham (Letnitsky): December 16, 1889 – October 24, 1893
  * Nicholas (Nalimov): November 13, 1893 – January 16, 1899
  * John (Kratirov): January 16, 1899 – March 12, 1903
  * Hermogenes (Dolganov): March 21, 1903 – January 17, 1912
  * Alexis (Dorodnitsyn): January 17, 1912 – July 30, 1914
  * Palladium (Dobronravov): July 30, 1914 – August 25, 1917
  * Dosifej (Protopopoff): August 25, 1917 – October 27, 1927
  * Andrew (Komarov): January 14, 1924 – March 6, 1926
  * Thaddeus (Uspensky): October 27, 1927 – 1928
  * Seraphim (Alexandrov): June 15, 1928 – August 11, 1933
  * Athanasius (Malinin): August 11, 1933 – September 30, 1935
  * Seraphim (Silichev): September 30, 1935 – 1936
  * Benjamin (Smith): September 23, 1936 – October 1937) 1937–1941 – Department of widow
  * Andrew (Komarov): December 9, 1941 – May 28, 1942 and July 13 – August 14, 1942
  * Gregory (Chukov): October 14, 1942 – May 26, 1944
  * Paisij (Samples):February 14, 1945 – January 13, 1947
  * Boris (Vic): January 13, 1947 – March 4, 1949
  * Philip (Stavitskiy): October 21, 1949 – December 12, 1952 (with the title of "Astrakhan and Saratov")
  * Gury (Egorov): January 28, 1953– July 1954
  * Benjamin (Milov): February 4, 1955 – August 2, 1955
  * Job (Kresovich): 1955
  * Benjamin (Fedchenkov): November 28, 1955 – February 20, 1958
  * Palladium (Sherstennikov): February 20, 1958 – May 29, 1963
  * Bartholomew (Gondarovsky): May 29, 1963 – December 22, 1964
  * Pimen (Chmielewski): January 10, 1965 – December 10, 1993
  * Nectarios (box): March 26, 1994 – November 19, 1994
  * Alexander (Timofeev): July 18, 1995 – January 7, 2003
  * Sergei (Poletkin): January 7, 2003 – August 19, 2003
  * Longin (Pavel): since August 19, 2003
  