Savvatii Antonov

Life

Born

1 September 1968

Monastic tonsure

20 August 1989

Ordained deacon

27 August 1989

Ordained priest

22 October 1989

Made archimandrite

1996

Consecrated bishop

30 January 2005

Made archbishop

1 February 2014

Made metropolitan

24 May 2015

Sees

1. 30 January 2005 – 10 October 2009

   Bishop of Alatyr

   Vicar of Cheboksary · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 10 October 2009 – 1 February 2014

   Bishop of Ulan-Ude and Buryatia

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 1 February 2014 – 5 May 2015

   Archbishop of Ulan-Ude and Buryatia

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 5 May 2015 – 24 May 2015

   Archbishop of Buryatia

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 24 May 2015 – 25 August 2020

   Metropolitan of Buryatia

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 25 August 2020 – present

   Metropolitan of Cheboksary and Chuvash

   Patriarchate of Moscow

7. 12 March 2024 – 16 June 2024

   Locum tenens of Alatyr and Poretskoye

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 30 January 2005 by:

• Aleksii II Ridiger Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1929–2008
• Juvenal Poyarkov Former Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomenskoye, b. 1935
• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Clement Kapalin Metropolitan of Kaluga and Borovsk, b. 1949
• Barnabas Kedrov Metropolitan of Cheboksary and Chuvash, 1931–2020
• Arsenii Epifanov Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Zadonsk, b. 1955
• Dimitrii Kapalin Metropolitan of Tobolsk and Tyumen, b. 1952
• Innocent Vasiliev Metropolitan of Vilnius and Lithuania, b. 1947
• Eugene Reshetnikov Archbishop of Vereya, b. 1957
• Aleksii Frolov Archbishop of Kostroma and Halych, 1947–2013
• Savva Volkov Archbishop of Tiraspol and Dubăsari, b. 1958
• Alexander Agrikov Metropolitan of Bryansk and Sevsk, b. 1953
• Feognost Guzikov Metropolitan of Kashira, b. 1960
• Feodosii Vasnev Metropolitan of Tambov and Rasskazovo, b. 1961
• George Danilov Metropolitan of Nizhny Novgorod and Arzamas, b. 1964
• Benjamin Zaritskii Metropolitan of Orenburg and Saraktash, 1953–2023

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. Savvatii Antonov Metropolitan of Cheboksary and Chuvash consecrated 30 January 2005
2. Feodosii Vasnev Metropolitan of Tambov and Rasskazovo, b. 1961 consecrated 21 April 2002
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 6

• 26 March 2005Ambrose Ermakov Metropolitan of Tver and Kashin, b. 1970
• 3 April 2005Tikhon Lobkovskii Archbishop of Maikop and Adygea, b. 1968
• 3 September 2011Serapheim Kuzminov Bishop of Belyov and Aleksin, b. 1977
• 25 December 2011Stephen Gordeyev Bishop of Kanash and Belaya Volozhka, b. 1966
• 12 July 2015Nicholas Krivenko Bishop of Severobaikalsk and Sosnovo-Ozerskoye, b. 1971
• 20 November 2017Ignatii Suranov Bishop of Cherepovets and Belozersk, b. 1978

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata