Diodor Isayev

Life

Born

7 May 1976

Ordained deacon

28 July 1997

Monastic tonsure

23 March 2001

Ordained priest

13 November 2011

Elected bishop

12 March 2013

Made archimandrite

17 March 2013

Consecrated bishop

19 May 2013

Sees

1. 19 May 2013 – present

   Bishop of Melekess and Cherdakly

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 19 May 2013 by:

• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Varsonofii Sudakov Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, b. 1955
• Prokl Khazov Metropolitan of Simbirsk and Melekess, 1943–2014
• Cyril Nakonechnii Metropolitan of Kazan and Tatarstan, b. 1961
• Sergii Chashin Metropolitan of Singapore and Southeast Asia, b. 1974
• Innocent Yakovlev Bishop of Alexandrovsk and Yuriev-Polskii, b. 1947
• Sergii Ivannikov Metropolitan of Barnaul and Altai, b. 1957

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 11 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Diodor Isayev Bishop of Melekess and Cherdakly consecrated 19 May 2013
2. Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946 consecrated 14 March 1976
3. Nikodim Rotov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1929–1978 consecrated 10 July 1960
4. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
5. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
6. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
7. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
8. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
9. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
10. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
11. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
12. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 2

• 21 May 2015Sergii Zyatkov Bishop of Novorossiisk and Gelendzhik, b. 1967
• 1 August 2016Eugene Kulberg Metropolitan of Ekaterinburg and Verkhoturye, b. 1972

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

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