Jonah Karpukhin

Life

Born

13 June 1941

Monastic tonsure

21 September 1965

Ordained deacon

6 February 1966

Ordained priest

5 May 1968

Made archimandrite

14 October 1981

Elected bishop

20 October 1992

Consecrated bishop

25 October 1992

Made archbishop

25 February 2002

Made metropolitan

24 March 2013

Retired

15 July 2016

Died

4 May 2020

Sees

1. 25 October 1992 – 25 February 2002

   Bishop of Astrakhan and Yenotayevka

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 25 February 2002 – 24 March 2013

   Archbishop of Astrakhan and Yenotayevka

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 24 March 2013 – 15 July 2016

   Metropolitan of Astrakhan and Kamyzyak

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 15 July 2016 – 4 May 2020

   Former Metropolitan of Astrakhan and Kamyzyak

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 25 October 1992 by:

• Aleksii II Ridiger Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1929–2008
• Sergii Fomin Metropolitan of Voronezh and Liski, b. 1949
• Barnabas Kedrov Metropolitan of Cheboksary and Chuvash, 1931–2020
• Isidore Kirichenko Metropolitan of Ekaterinodar and Kuban, 1941–2020
• Herman Timofeyev Metropolitan of Volgograd, b. 1937
• Arsenii Epifanov Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Zadonsk, b. 1955
• Filaret Karagodin Archbishop of Penza and Kuznetsy, b. 1946
• Prokl Khazov Metropolitan of Simbirsk and Melekess, 1943–2014
• Anthony Moskalenko Archbishop of the Urals and Atyrau, 1940–2025
• Victor Oleinik Metropolitan of Tver and Kashin, b. 1940

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. Jonah Karpukhin Archbishop of Astrakhan and Kamyzyak consecrated 25 October 1992
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 5

• 19 August 1995Aleksii Frolov Archbishop of Kostroma and Halych, 1947–2013
• 3 September 1995Mark Tuzhikov Metropolitan of Vyatka and Sloboda, b. 1961
• 24 December 1995Zosima Ostapenko Archbishop of Solikamsk and Chusovoi, 1950–2026
• 7 December 2010Innocent Erokhin Bishop of Balakovo and Nikolayevskii, b. 1967
• 13 December 2012Gedeon Gubka Bishop of Vyksa and Pavlovsk, b. 1962

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata