Bishop Simeon (Yuzhakov) , born in 1964 in Moscow. A historian by education, formerly the academic secretary of the Soviet National Association of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology section and a research fellow at the IInstitute of the History of Natural Science and Technology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In the 1980s, he was an altar boy at the Church of St. John the Baptist on Presnya in Moscow, a spiritual child and godson of its rector, the famous Moscow archpriest Father Nikolai Sitnikov. In the 1990s, he was a member of the mission of the ROCOR Synod in Russia and the executive secretary of the magazine "The Straight Path", edited by the outstanding canonist Bishop Gregory Grabbe. Member of the Council of the RCM (Russian Christian Movement).
He was ordained a deacon (OPOAT) on February 28, 2014, and a priest on March 1, 2014, and appointed rector of the parish in honor of St. John of Shanghai in Moscow.
On January 3, 2015, he was appointed Secretary of the Holy Synod of the OPOAT. On May 10, 2015, he was tonsured into the small schema with the name Simeon in honor of the holy martyr Simeon, Bishop of Jerusalem, a relative of the Lord, and elevated to the rank of archimandrite.
On May 10, 2015, on the 5th Sunday after Easter, in the Church of the Holy Martyr Alexander Men in Moscow, the council of bishops performed the episcopal consecration of Archimandrite Simeon (Yuzhakov) as Bishop of Krutitsy and Kolomna. Metropolitan Kiriak (Temercidi) of Pyatigorsk and South Russia and Metropolitan Agapit (Zimaev) of Tver and Bezhetsk took part in the consecration.
In 2018, together with Bishop Roman Aleksandrovsky and Verdensky, he became the founder of the autonomous church AS-AOC (now COAC).
Since April 2019, he has been retired at his own request.
Bishop of Shlisselburg and Ingria Dimitry Ignatov was born in Leningrad on June 29, 1972. His father, Valery Konstantinovich Ignatov, is a philosophy teacher, and his mother, Lyudmila Vasilyevna Ignatova, is a design engineer. He is married.
On May 10, 1993, he was baptized in the Church of the Smolensk Icon of the Mother of God in St. Petersburg.
In 1995, he graduated from the Russian State Pedagogical Institute named after A.I. Herzen, specializing in "Social Pedagogy", worked with difficult teenagers as part of the city program for the protection of families, the fight against child neglect and the prevention of juvenile delinquency. Taught the Law of God to children in the Sunday school of the Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Was the editor of educational Orthodox websites. Since 2005, he has been participating in various interfaith Christian events and projects. Currently, he is an employee of social services. Deputy Chairman of the Council of the Association of Christian Democrats of St. Petersburg.
On August 30, 2015, Gregory, Bishop of Varangia and the Baltic (AOC), ordained him a deacon to serve in the community of the Holy Martyr Maria (Skobtsova). On October 11 of the same year, on the day of remembrance of the Holy Martyrs Kirill and Maria of Radonezh, he was ordained a priest and became the rector of the community.
On June 2, 2018, the Chairman of the Synod of Bishops of the APC (now the SPAC), Metropolitan Simeon, enrolled him in the clergy of the Krutitsy and Kolomna Diocese of the AS-APC (SPAC) with a blessing for the further care of the community.
On June 23, 2018, in Moscow, he was ordained a bishop with the title of Peterhof Cathedral headed by Metropolitan Simeon to perform the duties of assistant to the ruling bishop of the Krutitsy and Kolomna diocese of the AS-APC (SPAC-COAC)
On July 9, 2018, he was appointed Administrator of the Affairs of the Synod of Bishops of the Apostolic Orthodox Church (SPAC-COAC)
On October 31, 2018, he became the ruling bishop of the newly established Ingermanland Diocese of the Cathedral Orthodox Apostolic Church (formerly the Cathedral Orthodox Apostolic Church) with the title of Bishop of Shlisselburg and Ingermanland.
Bishop of Vindava and the Baltics Oleg Troyanovsky was born in 1967 in Moscow. His father was a journalist, headed the editorial board of the APN, and was the editor-in-chief of the magazine "Religion in the USSR". His mother was a philologist, and worked for more than 40 years at the Institute of the Russian Language of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Baptized in June 1990 in the USA.
1991-1996 studied at the theological faculty of Albiene Christian University (USA), specializing in "Ancient Greek of the New Testament (Koine)", diploma work on the peculiarities of the language of the letters of St. Ignatius.
In 2001, he completed his Master's degree at South Bank University (UK) and worked as a consultant for government and commercial organizations.
Since 2012 he has lived mainly in Latvia.
He teaches at several universities in the USA (Georgia Institute of Technology, Brigham Young University), and is the director of international programs at the Baltic Center for Academic Education Development in Riga.
Ordained as a priest of the OPOAT in September 2016.
In 2018 he joined the AS-AOC (now COAC).
On July 17/30, 2018, the council headed by Metropolitan Simeon (Yuzhakov) ordained a bishop with the title of Vindava and the Baltic.
Archimandrite Abraham (Zakhar Prav ) was born on September 7, 1954 in Kharkov.
After finishing high school, he served in the army. He graduated from the Kharkov Medical College. He was baptized in 1990 in the Holy Protection Monastery. Since 2000, he has lived in Israel in the city of Beer Sheva.
In 2012, the Orthodox community of the Holy Trinity was formed. At the request of the community, he carries out the ministry.
In 2013, he was ordained a deacon and priest in the ROCOR
2015 - tonsured into the small schema with the name Abraham in the ROCOR (A)
In July 2018, he came under the omophorion of the AS AOC (now the COAC)
In March 2022, for many years of faithful service to the Church of Christ and conscientious pastoral care of the Virsava Diocese, he was elevated to the rank of archimandrite.
Bishop Boniface was born on June 5, 1975 in the city of Taganrog, Rostov region.
In 2021, he organized the ecumenical Community of the Holy Cross for the revival of the Western Rite in Orthodoxy.
From 2005 to 2022 he was a member of the Central Regional Organization of the OPOAT, took part in the creation of the canons of the AOC, and is the author of the original emblem of the AOC.
in 2018 he was ordained a bishop.
In 2023, he was accepted into communion with the Catholic Orthodox Apostolic Church.
Bishop Mark Walker Born December 1969 in Beaumont, Texas.
He felt a call from God at an early age, entered the evangelical ministry at the age of 19, and devoted several years of his life to missionary work among the native tribes in the United States. For several years, he served as an assistant pastor in one of the local mission churches.
He subsequently earned a Bachelor of Divinity degree from Holmes Bible College in Greenville, South Carolina, and then entered the pastorate.
He was later led by God to Orthodoxy. In 2004, he was ordained a priest, and in December 2018, he was ordained a bishop to lead a new mission in Texas for the Apostolic Orthodox Church of Texas.
In 2019, he and his parish joined the Catholic Orthodox Apostolic Church (COAC)
The mission was renamed the "Holy American Apostolic Church"
(Holy American Apostolic Church)
Currently works as an environmental and wildlife conservationist on Cherokee Lake in Texas.
As a representative of the COAC, who received apostolic succession through the AC-AOC, he is the head of the AOC in America.