Benjamin Tupeko

Life

Born

16 September 1968

Monastic tonsure

16 December 1994

Ordained deacon

9 January 1995

Ordained priest

13 February 1995

Made archimandrite

20 May 2006

Elected bishop

5 March 2010

Consecrated bishop

21 March 2010

Made metropolitan

6 September 2020

Sees

1. 21 March 2010 – 23 October 2014

   Bishop of Borisov

   Vicar of Minsk · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 23 October 2014 – 25 August 2020

   Bishop of Borisov and Maryina Horka

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 25 August 2020 – 6 September 2020

   Bishop of Minsk and Zaslavsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 6 September 2020 – present

   Metropolitan of Minsk and Zaslavsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. June 2021 – 13 October 2022

   Locum tenens of Slutsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 21 March 2010 by:

• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Filaret Vakhromeyev Metropolitan of Minsk and Slutsk, 1935–2021
• Juvenal Poyarkov Former Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomenskoye, b. 1935
• Varsonofii Sudakov Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, b. 1955
• Mefodii Nemtsov Metropolitan of Perm and Kungur, b. 1949
• Dimitrii Drozdov Archbishop of Vitebsk and Orsha, b. 1953
• Alexander Mogilyov Metropolitan of Astana and Kazakhstan, b. 1957
• Arsenii Epifanov Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Zadonsk, b. 1955
• Justinian Ovchinnikov Archbishop of Elista and Kalmykia, b. 1961
• Gurii Apalko Archbishop of Navahrudak and Slonim, b. 1956
• Ignat Karagyozov Bishop of Provat, b. 1972
• Savva Volkov Archbishop of Tiraspol and Dubăsari, b. 1958
• Sergii Chashin Metropolitan of Singapore and Southeast Asia, b. 1974

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. Benjamin Tupeko Bishop of Borisov and Maryina Horka consecrated 21 March 2010
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 7

• 18 September 2011Andrew Tarasov Bishop of Rossosh and Ostrogozhsk, b. 1975
• 2 December 2014Paul Timofeyenkov Bishop of Molodechno and Stolbtsy, b. 1963
• 3 January 2015Anthony Doronin Archbishop of Hrodna and Vaŭkavysk, b. 1980
• 5 April 2015Porfirii Prednyuk Bishop of Lida and Smarhoń, b. 1970
• 6 October 2019Ambrose Shevtsov Bishop of Borisov and Maryina Horka, b. 1975
• 2 June 2022George Voitovich Bishop of Pinsk and Luninets, b. 1964
• 5 June 2022Evsevii Tyukhlov Bishop of Drutsk, b. 1975

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata