Hilarion Kapral

Metropolitan Hilarion (born Igor Alexeyevich Kapral, Russian: Игорь Алексеевич Капрал; January 6, 1948 in Spirit River, Alberta, Canada) is a bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR), Metropolitan of Eastern America and New York, First-Hierarch of the ROCOR since 18 May 2008; he is the first First-Hierarch of the ROCOR to be approved by the Holy Synod of the Moscow Patriarchate. On May 17, 2007, after the signing of the Act of Canonical Communion between the ROCOR and the Russian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate), Kapral became a part of the episcopate of the latter.

Hilarion Kapral

Metropolitan Hilarion (born Igor Alexeyevich Kapral, Russian: Игорь Алексеевич Капрал; January 6, 1948 in Spirit River, Alberta, Canada) is a bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR), Metropolitan of Eastern America and New York, First-Hierarch of the ROCOR since 18 May 2008; he is the first First-Hierarch of the ROCOR to be approved by the Holy Synod of the Moscow Patriarchate. On May 17, 2007, after the signing of the Act of Canonical Communion between the ROCOR and the Russian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate), Kapral became a part of the episcopate of the latter.