Andrew Tarasov

Life

Born

19 July 1975

Ordained deacon

28 October 1995

Ordained priest

30 October 1995

Monastic tonsure

7 March 1996

Made archimandrite

2005

Elected bishop

27 July 2011

Consecrated bishop

18 September 2011

Retired

25 August 2020

Sees

1. 18 September 2011 – 26 December 2013

   Bishop of Ostrogozhsk

   Vicar of Voronezh · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 26 December 2013 – 25 August 2020

   Bishop of Rossosh and Ostrogozhsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 25 August 2020 – present

   Former Bishop of Rossosh and Ostrogozhsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 18 September 2011 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
• John Popov Metropolitan of Belgorod and Staryi Oskol, b. 1960
• Panteleimon Kutovoi Metropolitan of Krasnoyarsk and Achinsk, b. 1955
• Nikon Vasin Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Zadonsk, b. 1942
• Arsenii Yakovenko Metropolitan of Svyatohirsk, b. 1968
• Anthony Pakanich Metropolitan of Boryspil and Brovary, b. 1967
• Daniel Dorovskikh Metropolitan of Kurgan and Belozersk, b. 1960
• Anthony Pantelić Bishop of Moravica, b. 1970
• Sergii Chashin Metropolitan of Singapore and Southeast Asia, b. 1974
• Benjamin Tupeko Bishop of Borisov and Maryina Horka, b. 1968

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. Andrew Tarasov Bishop of Rossosh and Ostrogozhsk consecrated 18 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 3

• 29 September 2013Roman Kornev Bishop of Rubtsovsk and Aleisk, b. 1972
• 22 November 2015Savva Nikiforov Bishop of Valuiki and Alekseyevka, b. 1974
• 19 December 2015Sergii Kopylov Bishop of Borisogleb and Buturlinovka, b. 1983

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata