Constantine Goryanov

Life

Born

23 March 1951

Monastic tonsure

14 April 1986

Ordained deacon

4 May 1986

Ordained priest

12 June 1986

Made archimandrite

September 1990

Consecrated bishop

16 June 1991

Made archbishop

25 February 2003

Made metropolitan

24 May 2015

Retired

22 October 2026

Sees

1. 16 June 1991 – 1992

   Bishop of Navahrudak

   Vicar of Minsk · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 1992 – 1996

   Bishop of Navahrudak and Lida

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 1996 – 25 February 2003

   Bishop of Tikhvin

   Vicar of Saint Petersburg · Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 25 February 2003 – 2008

   Archbishop of Tikhvin

   Vicar of Kyiv · Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 2008 – 2015

   Archbishop of Kurgan and Shadrinsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 2015 – 24 May 2015

   Archbishop of Petrozavodsk and Karelia

   Patriarchate of Moscow

7. 24 May 2015 – 22 October 2026

   Metropolitan of Petrozavodsk and Karelia

   Patriarchate of Moscow

8. 22 October 2026 – present

   Former Metropolitan of Petrozavodsk and Karelia

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 16 June 1991 by:

• Aleksii II Ridiger Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1929–2008
• Filaret Vakhromeyev Metropolitan of Minsk and Slutsk, 1935–2021
• Maksim Krokha Archbishop of Mahilioŭ and Mstsislaw, 1928–2002
• Eugene Zhdan Archbishop of Tambov and Michurinsk, 1942–2002
• Constantine Khomich Archbishop of Brest and Kobryn, 1911–2000
• Dimitrii Drozdov Archbishop of Vitebsk and Orsha, b. 1953
• Arsenii Epifanov Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Zadonsk, b. 1955
• Stephen Korzun Archbishop of Pinsk and Luninets, 1944–2022
• Aristarkh Stankevich Archbishop of Homieĺ and Zhlobin, 1941–2012

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. Constantine Goryanov Metropolitan of Petrozavodsk and Karelia consecrated 16 June 1991
2. Aleksii II Ridiger Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1929–2008 consecrated 3 September 1961
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 9

• 4 February 1996Artemii Kishchenko Archbishop of Hrodna and Vaŭkavysk, 1952–2023
• 4 August 1996Gurii Apalko Archbishop of Navahrudak and Slonim, b. 1956
• 14 April 2002Irinarkh Grezin Bishop of Ramenskoye, 1951–2024
• 19 August 2003Longin Korchagin Metropolitan of Simbirsk and Novospasskoye, b. 1961
• 27 September 2006Marcel Vetrov Bishop of Tsarskoye Selo, 1952–2019
• 2 December 2011Vladimir Samokhin Metropolitan of Donetsk and Mariupol, b. 1979
• 9 July 2015Vsevolod Ponich Bishop of Urzhum and Omutninsk, b. 1961
• 11 July 2015Vladimir Mashtanov Bishop of Shadrinsk and Dalmatovo, b. 1965
• 11 July 2019Boris Baranov Bishop of Kostomuksha and Kem, b. 1964

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru