Orthodox Hierarchs

Patriarchate of Moscow

Cyril Gundyayev

Кирилл

Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' · b. 1946

Born Vladimir Mikhailovich Gundyayev (Владимир Михайлович Гундяев)

Life

Born
20 November 1946
Monastic tonsure
3 April 1969
Ordained deacon
7 April 1969
Ordained priest
1 June 1969
Made archimandrite
12 September 1971
Consecrated bishop
14 March 1976
Made archbishop
2 September 1977
Made metropolitan
25 February 1991
Became patriarch
27 June 2009

Sees

  1. 14 March 1976 – 2 September 1977

    Bishop of Vyborg

    Patriarchate of Moscow

  2. 2 September 1977 – 26 December 1984

    Archbishop of Vyborg

    Patriarchate of Moscow

  3. 26 December 1984 – 10 April 1989

    Archbishop of Smolensk and Vyazma

    Patriarchate of Moscow

  4. 10 April 1989 – 25 February 1991

    Archbishop of Smolensk and Kaliningrad

    Patriarchate of Moscow

  5. 25 February 1991 – 27 June 2009

    Metropolitan of Smolensk and Kaliningrad

    Patriarchate of Moscow

  6. 27 June 2009 – present

    Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus'

    Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 14 March 1976 by:

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 10 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

  1. Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' consecrated 14 March 1976
  2. Nikodim Rotov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1929–1978 consecrated 10 July 1960
  3. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
  4. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
  5. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
  6. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
  7. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
  8. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
  9. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
  10. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
  11. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 291

Sources

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