Alexander Matryonin

Life

Born

6 September 1973

Ordained deacon

22 March 1998

Ordained priest

6 September 1998

Monastic tonsure

20 March 1999

Made hegumen

22 April 2001

Elected bishop

19 July 2006

Made archimandrite

21 July 2006

Consecrated bishop

19 August 2006

Sees

1. 19 August 2006 – 12 March 2013

   Bishop of Daugavpils

   Vicar of Riga · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 12 March 2013 – present

   Bishop of Daugavpils and Rēzekne

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 19 August 2006 by:

• Aleksii II Ridiger Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1929–2008
• Juvenal Poyarkov Former Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomenskoye, b. 1935
• Clement Kapalin Metropolitan of Kaluga and Borovsk, b. 1949
• Alexander Kudrjašovs Metropolitan of Riga and All Latvia, b. 1939
• Arsenii Epifanov Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Zadonsk, b. 1955
• Dimitrii Kapalin Metropolitan of Tobolsk and Tyumen, b. 1952
• Eugene Reshetnikov Archbishop of Vereya, b. 1957
• Aleksii Frolov Archbishop of Kostroma and Halych, 1947–2013
• Nephon Saykali Metropolitan of Philippopolis (Chehba), cons. 1988
• Alexander Agrikov Metropolitan of Bryansk and Sevsk, b. 1953
• Feognost Guzikov Metropolitan of Kashira, b. 1960
• Benjamin Zaritskii Metropolitan of Orenburg and Saraktash, 1953–2023
• Mark Golovkov Metropolitan of Korsun and Western Europe, b. 1964
• Ambrose Ermakov Metropolitan of Tver and Kashin, b. 1970
• Roman Gavrilov Bishop of Serpukhov, 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. Alexander Matryonin Bishop of Daugavpils and Rēzekne consecrated 19 August 2006
2. Alexander Agrikov Metropolitan of Bryansk and Sevsk, b. 1953 consecrated 2 September 2001
3. Herman Swaiko Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada, 1931–2022 consecrated 10 February 1973
4. Silvester Haruns Archbishop of Montréal and Canada, 1914–2000 consecrated 27 April 1952
5. Vladimir Tikhonitskii Metropolitan of Białystok, 1873–1959 consecrated 3 June 1907
6. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
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 5

• 20 August 2006Aristarkh Smirnov Metropolitan of Kemerovo and Prokopievsk, b. 1959
• 21 July 2009Lazar Gurkin Bishop of Narva and Prichudye, b. 1969
• 27 March 2016John Sichyovskii Bishop of Jelgava, b. 1978
• 5 February 2017Sergii Telikh Bishop of Maardu, b. 1966
• 15 August 2023John Lipšāns Bishop of Valmiera, b. 1957

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata