Raphael Prokopiev-Motovilov

Life

Born

18 September 1947

Consecrated bishop

1996 · Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church

Consecrated bishop

21 September 1997 · Russian True Orthodox Church

Made metropolitan

1998

Tonsured into the great schema

14 October 2017

Sees

1. 1996 – 21 September 1997

   Bishop of Krasnoyarsk

   Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church

2. 21 September 1997 – 1998

   Bishop of Volokolamsk

   Russian True Orthodox Church

3. 1998 – 1999

   Metropolitan of Moscow

   Russian True Orthodox Church

4. 1999 – 2003

   Metropolitan of Moscow

   Orthodox Church of Russia (True Orthodox Church)

5. 2003 – present

   Archbishop of Moscow, Metropolitan of All Russia

   True Orthodox Church in Russia

Consecration

Consecrated 1996 by:

• Ambrose Katamadze Archbishop of Nikortsminda, 1941–2008
• Stephen Linitskii Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Mozhaisk, b. 1934
• Moses Khodzhava Bishop of Gaenati and Imeretia, cons. 1997

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 14 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Raphael Prokopiev-Motovilov Archbishop of Moscow, Metropolitan of All Russia consecrated 1996
2. Stephen Linitskii Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Mozhaisk, b. 1934 consecrated 17 December 1996
3. John Modzalevskii Archbishop of Uman, b. 1970 consecrated 17 June 1996
4. Roman Blashchuk/Balashchuk Metropolitan of Vinnytsya and Bratslav, b. 1953 consecrated 22 May 1990
5. John Bodnarchuk Metropolitan of Lutsk and Volyn, 1929–1994 consecrated 23 October 1977
6. Nicholas Yurik Metropolitan of Lviv and Ternopil, 1910–1984 consecrated 31 October 1965
7. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
8. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
9. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
10. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
11. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
12. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
13. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
14. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
15. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 13

• 1996Tikhon Kiselyov Archbishop of Penza and Siberia, cons. 1996
• 19 October 1997Sergii Moiseyenko Metropolitan of Mesembria, b. 1958
• 1998Nicholas Modebadze Bishop of Poti, b. 1960
• 30 June 1998Didim Nesterov Archbishop of Saint Petersburg, b. 1944
• 23 January 1999Philip Filipchenko Bishop of Nizhny Novgorod, cons. 1999
• 27 September 2002Anthony Korbut/Korbat Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and the Baltics, 1934–2016
• 23 February 2004Anthony Bozhuk Metropolitan of Orekhovo-Zuyevo, b. 1935
• 19 September 2004Paul Zinkevich Bishop of Volokolamsk, cons. 2004
• 21 November 2004Andrew Davidyan/Davidov Metropolitan of Pyatigorsk and the Northern Caucasus, b. 1960
• 21 June 2005Aleksii Boiko Metropolitan of Pyatigorsk and the Caucasus, b. 1963
• 28 January 2008Matthew Maistrenko Bishop of Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhya, b. 1940
• 19 February 2012Adam Gritskov Bishop of Belgorod and Yuriev, b. 1991
• 15 July 2012Onufrii Popov Bishop of Chernivtsi (Cernăuţi), b. 1970