Feodosii Vasnev

Life

Born

26 January 1961

Monastic tonsure

22 August 1987

Ordained deacon

28 August 1987

Ordained priest

12 July 1988

Made archimandrite

22 May 1993

Elected bishop

12 March 2002

Consecrated bishop

21 April 2002

Made metropolitan

3 January 2013

Sees

1. 21 April 2002 – 26 December 2002

   Bishop of Vetluga

   Vicar of Nizhny Novgorod · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 26 December 2002 – 26 December 2012

   Bishop of Tambov

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 26 December 2012 – 3 January 2013

   Bishop of Tambov and Rasskazovo

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 3 January 2013 – present

   Metropolitan of Tambov and Rasskazovo

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 21 April 2002 by:

• Aleksii II Ridiger Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1929–2008
• Juvenal Poyarkov Former Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomenskoye, b. 1935
• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Sergii Fomin Metropolitan of Voronezh and Liski, b. 1949
• Pitirim Nechayev Metropolitan of Volokolamsk and Yuriev, 1926–2003
• Vladimir Ikim Metropolitan of Tashkent and Central Asia, b. 1940
• Eugene Zhdan Archbishop of Tambov and Michurinsk, 1942–2002
• Arsenii Epifanov Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Zadonsk, b. 1955
• Eugene Reshetnikov Archbishop of Vereya, b. 1957
• Nephon Saykali Metropolitan of Philippopolis (Chehba), cons. 1988
• Aleksii Frolov Archbishop of Kostroma and Halych, 1947–2013
• Alexander Agrikov Metropolitan of Bryansk and Sevsk, b. 1953
• Feognost Guzikov Metropolitan of Kashira, b. 1960
• Irinarkh Grezin Bishop of Ramenskoye, 1951–2024
• Feofilakt Moiseyev Former Bishop of Mytishchi, 1949–2023

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 10 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Feodosii Vasnev Metropolitan of Tambov and Rasskazovo consecrated 21 April 2002
2. Pitirim Nechayev Metropolitan of Volokolamsk and Yuriev, 1926–2003 consecrated 23 May 1963
3. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
4. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
5. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
6. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
7. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
8. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
9. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
10. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
11. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 12

• 2 February 2003George Danilov Metropolitan of Nizhny Novgorod and Arzamas, b. 1964
• 27 September 2004Zosima Davydov Bishop of Yakutsk and Lensk, 1963–2010
• 30 January 2005Savvatii Antonov Metropolitan of Cheboksary and Chuvash, b. 1968
• 26 November 2006Elisei Ganaba Archbishop of the Hague and the Netherlands, b. 1962
• 30 September 2007Juraj Stránský Archbishop of Michalovce and Košice, b. 1979
• 17 December 2011Tarasii Vladimirov Bishop of Balashov and Rtishchevo, b. 1974
• 25 January 2013Ignatii Rumyantsev Bishop of Uvarovsk and Kirsanovsk, b. 1971
• 27 January 2013Varlaam Ponomaryov Archbishop of Makhachkala and Derbent, b. 1974
• 27 September 2013Hermogen Seryi Bishop of Michurinsk and Morshansk, b. 1973
• 31 August 2014Victor Sergeyev Bishop of Glazov and Igra, b. 1954
• 20 November 2017Ignatii Suranov Bishop of Cherepovets and Belozersk, b. 1978
• 18 July 2019Siluan Nikitin Bishop of Petergof, b. 1986

Sources

Also in: Wikidata