Ambrose Shevtsov

Life

Born

9 December 1975

Monastic tonsure

7 July 1995

Ordained deacon

16 July 1995

Ordained priest

21 May 1997

Made archimandrite

25 February 2012

Elected bishop

30 August 2019

Consecrated bishop

6 October 2019

Sees

1. 6 October 2019 – 27 December 2023

   Bishop of Svetlogorsk

   Vicar of Homieĺ · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 27 December 2023 – present

   Bishop of Borisov and Maryina Horka

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 6 October 2019 by:

• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Paul Ponomaryov Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomna, b. 1952
• Arsenii Epifanov Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Zadonsk, b. 1955
• Alexander Ishchein Archbishop of Baku and Azerbaijan, 1952–2021
• Stephen Neshcheret Archbishop of Homieĺ and Zhlobin, b. 1966
• Benjamin Tupeko Bishop of Borisov and Maryina Horka, b. 1968
• Dionisii Porubai Metropolitan of Omsk and Priirtyshye, b. 1975
• Thomas Mosolov Archbishop of Odintsovo and Krasnogorsk, b. 1978
• Savva Tutunov Archbishop of Zelenograd, b. 1978

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. Ambrose Shevtsov Bishop of Borisov and Maryina Horka consecrated 6 October 2019
2. Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946 consecrated 14 March 1976
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 1

• 5 June 2022Evsevii Tyukhlov Bishop of Drutsk, b. 1975

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata