Nicholas Pogrebnyak

Life

Born

15 May 1950

Ordained deacon

25 February 1990

Ordained priest

27 August 1990

Monastic tonsure

28 September 2011

Elected bishop

6 October 2011 (Synod session of 5-6 октября 2011)

Made archimandrite

9 October 2011

Consecrated bishop

1 January 2012

Sees

1. 1 January 2012 – 28 November 2017

   Bishop of Balashikha

   Vicar of Moscow · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 28 November 2017 – 13 April 2021

   Bishop of Balashikha

   Vicar of the Patriarch of Moscow · Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 13 April 2021 – present

   Bishop of Balashikha and Orekhovo-Zuevo

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 1 January 2012 by:

• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Juvenal Poyarkov Former Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomenskoye, b. 1935
• Gregory Chirkov Archbishop of Mozhaisk, 1942–2018
• Arsenii Epifanov Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Zadonsk, b. 1955
• Ilian Vostryakov Bishop of Serpukhov, b. 1945
• Tikhon Nedosekin Bishop of Vidnoye, b. 1956
• Roman Gavrilov Bishop of Serpukhov, b. 1957
• Sergii Chashin Metropolitan of Singapore and Southeast Asia, b. 1974
• Savva Mikheyev Metropolitan of Vologda and Kirillov, b. 1980

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. Nicholas Pogrebnyak Bishop of Balashikha and Orekhovo-Zuevo consecrated 1 January 2012
2. Tikhon Nedosekin Bishop of Vidnoye, b. 1956 consecrated 10 August 1999
3. Pitirim Nechayev Metropolitan of Volokolamsk and Yuriev, 1926–2003 consecrated 23 May 1963
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 14

• 4 March 2012Ambrose Munteanu Bishop of Bogorodsk, b. 1973
• 22 April 2012Barnabas Baranov Bishop of Karasuk and Ordynskoye, b. 1965
• 6 December 2012Paisii Kuznetsov Bishop of Yaransk and Luzsk, b. 1975
• 6 July 2014Agafangel Daineko Bishop of Norilsk and Turukhansk, b. 1975
• 18 May 2015Parmen Shchipelev Bishop of Chistopol and Nizhnekamsk, b. 1956
• 26 October 2015Anthony Sevryuk Metropolitan of Volokolamsk, b. 1984
• 14 August 2016Theodore Malakhanov Archbishop of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskii, b. 1978
• 26 October 2016Peter Dmitriev Bishop of Berdyansk and Primorye, b. 1979
• 11 June 2017Meletii Pavlyuchenkov Bishop of Roslavl and Desnogorsk, b. 1977
• 18 June 2017Aksii Lobov Archbishop of Podilsk and Lyubertsy, b. 1980
• 20 November 2017Ignatii Suranov Bishop of Cherepovets and Belozersk, b. 1978
• 2 December 2018Spyridon Morozov Bishop of Birsk and Beloretsk, b. 1987
• 3 March 2019Savva Tutunov Archbishop of Zelenograd, b. 1978
• 6 November 2022Paul Belokrylov Bishop of Sarapul and Mozhga, b. 1962

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata