Matthew Andreyev

Life

Born

18 May 1971

Ordained deacon

1 March 1998

Ordained priest

4 October 1998

Elected bishop

22 October 2015

Monastic tonsure

24 October 2015

Made archimandrite

27 October 2015

Consecrated bishop

15 November 2015

Sees

1. 15 November 2015 – 29 July 2017

   Bishop of Skopin and Shatsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 29 July 2017 – 28 December 2017

   Bishop of Bogorodsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 28 December 2017 – present

   Bishop of Sourozh

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 15 November 2015 by:

• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Varsonofii Sudakov Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, b. 1955
• Mark Golovkov Metropolitan of Korsun and Western Europe, b. 1964
• Serapheim Melkonyan Metropolitan of Baltiysk and Svetlogorsk, b. 1961
• Ignatii Punin Bishop of Minusinsk and Kuraginsk, b. 1973
• Sergii Chashin Metropolitan of Singapore and Southeast Asia, b. 1974
• Dionisii Porubai Metropolitan of Omsk and Priirtyshye, b. 1975

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. Matthew Andreyev Bishop of Sourozh consecrated 15 November 2015
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 2

• 19 August 2017Feodorit Tikhonov Bishop of Venyov, b. 1980
• 1 September 2019Ignatii Golinchenko Metropolitan of Perm and Kungur, b. 1989

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata