This is a list of the Bishops and Archbishops of Novgorod the Great from the Christianization of Rus' in 988 to the establishment of the Metropolitanate in Novgorod in 1589. * Ioakim Korsunianin (ca. 989 - 1030) * Efrem (1030 -1035)- never consecrated * Luka Zhidiata (1035 - 1060) * Stefan (1060 - 1068) * Fedor (1069 - 1077) * German (1078 - 1095) * Nikita (1096 - 1108) * Ioann Pop'ian (1110 -1130) (d. 1144) * Nifont (1130 - 1156)- held archiepiscopal title personally * Arkady (1156 - 1163) * Ilya (Ioann) (1165 - 1186) * Gavril (Grigory) (1186 - 1193) * Martiry Rushanin (1193 - 1199) - only a bishop * Mitrofan (1199 - 1211, 1219 - 1223) * Antony (1211 - 1219, 1226 - 28, 1229) * Arseny (1223 - 1225, 1228 - 1229)- never consecra