Serapheim Tsujie

Life

Born

23 March 1951

Ordained deacon

5 November 1989

Ordained priest

18 August 1991

Monastic tonsure

20 August 1999

Elected bishop

28 December 1999

Made archimandrite

9 January 2000

Consecrated bishop

15 January 2000

Made archbishop

8 July 2012

Sees

1. 15 January 2000 – 8 July 2012

   Bishop of Sendai and Eastern Japan

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 8 July 2012 – 7 July 2019

   Archbishop of Sendai and Eastern Japan

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 7 July 2019 – 28 September 2023

   Archbishop of Sendai

   Vicar of Tokyo · Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 28 September 2023 – present

   Archbishop of Tokyo, Metropolitan of All Japan

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 15 January 2000 by:

• Aleksii II Ridiger Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1929–2008
• Filaret Vakhromeyev Metropolitan of Minsk and Slutsk, 1935–2021
• Juvenal Poyarkov Former Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomenskoye, b. 1935
• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Sergii Fomin Metropolitan of Voronezh and Liski, b. 1949
• Pitirim Nechayev Metropolitan of Volokolamsk and Yuriev, 1926–2003
• Arsenii Epifanov Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Zadonsk, b. 1955
• Nephon Saykali Metropolitan of Philippopolis (Chehba), cons. 1988
• Tikhon Emelyanov Metropolitan of Vladimir and Suzdal, b. 1948
• Aleksii Frolov Archbishop of Kostroma and Halych, 1947–2013
• Daniel Nushiro Archbishop of Tokyo, Metropolitan of All Japan, 1938–2023

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 10 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Serapheim Tsujie Archbishop of Tokyo, Metropolitan of All Japan consecrated 15 January 2000
2. Pitirim Nechayev Metropolitan of Volokolamsk and Yuriev, 1926–2003 consecrated 23 May 1963
3. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
4. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
5. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
6. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
7. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
8. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
9. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
10. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
11. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

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