Serapheim Kuzminov

Life

Born

31 August 1977

Monastic tonsure

9 December 1997

Ordained deacon

10 December 1997

Ordained priest

5 April 1998

Elected bishop

27 July 2011

Made archimandrite

19 August 2011

Consecrated bishop

3 September 2011

Sees

1. 3 September 2011 – 2011

   Bishop of Kamensk and Alapayevsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 2011 – present

   Bishop of Belyov and Aleksin

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 3 September 2011 by:

• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Varsonofii Sudakov Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, b. 1955
• Anthony Cheremisov Archbishop of Oryol and Bolkhov, 1939–2026
• Vadim Lazebnyi Metropolitan of Yaroslavl and Rostov, b. 1954
• Cyril Nakonechnii Metropolitan of Kazan and Tatarstan, b. 1961
• Ignatii Pologrudov Metropolitan of Argentina and South America, b. 1956
• Evstafii Evdokimov Archbishop of Alexandrovsk and Yuriev-Polskii, b. 1951
• Savvatii Antonov Metropolitan of Cheboksary and Chuvash, b. 1968
• Sergii Chashin Metropolitan of Singapore and Southeast Asia, b. 1974
• Marcel Mihăescu Archbishop of Bălţi and Făleşti, b. 1959
• Nikodim Chibisov Metropolitan of Ryazan and Mikhailovka, b. 1969
• Roman Lukin Archbishop of Yakutsk and Lensk, b. 1968
• Nicholas Dutka Bishop of Nakhodka and Preobrazhensk, b. 1966

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. Serapheim Kuzminov Bishop of Belyov and Aleksin consecrated 3 September 2011
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 1

• 22 April 2012Barnabas Baranov Bishop of Karasuk and Ordynskoye, b. 1965

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata