Adam Gritskov

Life

Born

1 August 1991

Ordained deacon

15 October 2007

Monastic tonsure

2008

Ordained priest

7 January 2008

Consecrated bishop

19 February 2012

Defrocked

22 November 2016

Sees

1. 19 February 2012 – 2012

   Archbishop of Kyiv and Halych

   Exarch of Ukraine · Patriarchate of the Russian True Orthodox Catacomb Church

2. 2012 – 2014

   Former Archbishop of Kyiv and Halych

   Exarch of Ukraine · Patriarchate of the Russian True Orthodox Catacomb Church

3. 2014 – 15 February 2015

   Archimandrite

   True Orthodox Church in Russia (Rafail)

4. 15 February 2015 – 22 November 2016

   Bishop of Belgorod and Yuriev

   True Orthodox Church in Russia (Rafail)

5. 22 November 2016 – present

   Layperson

   True Orthodox Church in Russia (Rafail)

Consecration

Consecrated 19 February 2012 by:

• Raphael Prokopiev-Motovilov Archbishop of Moscow, Metropolitan of All Russia, b. 1947
• Andrew Davidyan/Davidov Metropolitan of Pyatigorsk and the Northern Caucasus, b. 1960
• Mark Voinov Metropolitan of Solnechnogorsk and Klin, b. 1963

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 13 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Adam Gritskov Bishop of Belgorod and Yuriev consecrated 19 February 2012
2. Andrew Davidyan/Davidov Metropolitan of Pyatigorsk and the Northern Caucasus, b. 1960 consecrated 21 November 2004
3. Nikodim Kolesov Archbishop of Saint Petersburg and Novgorod, b. 1955 consecrated 2003
4. Anthony Korbut/Korbat Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and the Baltics, 1934–2016 consecrated 27 September 2002
5. Epifanii Kaminskii Metropolitan of Minsk and Svetlogorsk, b. 1931 consecrated 1980
6. Anthony Golynskii-Mikhailovskii Archbishop, 1890–1976 consecrated 1923
7. Juvenal Maslovskii Archbishop of Ryazan and Shatsk, 1878–1937 consecrated 24 August 1914
8. Vladimir Bogoyavlenskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1848–1918 consecrated 13 June 1888
9. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
10. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
11. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
12. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
13. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
14. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735