Savva Nikiforov

Life

Born

2 January 1974

Monastic tonsure

1999

Ordained deacon

2000

Ordained priest

2001

Elected bishop

22 October 2015

Made archimandrite

24 October 2015

Consecrated bishop

22 November 2015

Sees

1. 22 November 2015 – present

   Bishop of Valuiki and Alekseyevka

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 22 November 2015 by:

• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Varsonofii Sudakov Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, b. 1955
• Sergii Fomin Metropolitan of Voronezh and Liski, b. 1949
• Herman Moralin Metropolitan of Kursk and Rylsk, b. 1956
• Feofilakt Moiseyev Former Bishop of Mytishchi, 1949–2023
• Sergii Chashin Metropolitan of Singapore and Southeast Asia, b. 1974
• Andrew Tarasov Bishop of Rossosh and Ostrogozhsk, b. 1975
• Sofronii Kitayev Bishop of Gubkin and Graivoron, b. 1978

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. Savva Nikiforov Bishop of Valuiki and Alekseyevka consecrated 22 November 2015
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

• 19 December 2015Sergii Kopylov Bishop of Borisogleb and Buturlinovka, b. 1983
• 25 December 2016Evfimii Maksimenko Bishop of Usman, b. 1975

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata