Joseph Korolyov

Life

Born

16 September 1977

Ordained deacon

14 March 2002

Ordained priest

14 December 2002

Monastic tonsure

25 March 2005

Elected bishop

11 March 2020

Made archimandrite

21 March 2020

Consecrated bishop

19 August 2020

Sees

1. 19 August 2020 – 29 December 2021

   Bishop of Tarusa

   Vicar of Kaluga · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 29 December 2021 – present

   Bishop of Mozhaisk

   Vicar of the Patriarch of Moscow · Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 19 August 2020 by:

• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Dionisii Porubai Metropolitan of Omsk and Priirtyshye, b. 1975
• Clement Kapalin Metropolitan of Kaluga and Borovsk, b. 1949
• Vadim Lazebnyi Metropolitan of Yaroslavl and Rostov, b. 1954
• Maximilian Lazarenko Archbishop of Pesochenskii and Yukhnov, b. 1950
• Nikita Ananiev Metropolitan of Krasnoyarsk and Achinsk, b. 1969
• Serapheim Savostyanov Bishop of Biisk and Belokurikha, b. 1971

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. Joseph Korolyov Bishop of Mozhaisk consecrated 19 August 2020
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

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

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