Kyrill Dmitrieff

[1] He was born on November 24, 1954, in San Francisco, California, to ethnic Russian immigrant parents.

In 1981 he was tonsured a monk and ordained a hierodeacon and then a hieromonk by Metropolitan Philaret (Voznesensky).

In 1987, he was appointed rector of the Ss Cyrill and Methodius Russian Church school at the Joy of all Who Sorrow Cathedral in San Francisco and was elevated to the rank of hegumen.

June 7, 1992, he was consecrated bishop of Seattle, Vicar of the Western American Diocese.

After the repose of Archbishop Anthony in 2000, he was appointed ruling hierarch of the Western American Diocese.