Tikhon Shevkunov

Life

Born

2 July 1958

Ordained deacon

July 1991

Monastic tonsure

2 July 1991

Ordained priest

August 1991

Made archimandrite

1998

Elected bishop

22 October 2015

Consecrated bishop

24 October 2015

Made metropolitan

17 May 2018

Sees

1. 24 October 2015 – 14 May 2018

   Bishop of Yegoriev

   Vicar of the Patriarch of Moscow · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 14 May 2018 – 17 May 2018

   Bishop of Pskov and Porkhov

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 17 May 2018 – 11 October 2023

   Metropolitan of Pskov and Porkhov

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 11 October 2023 – present

   Metropolitan of Simferopol and the Crimea

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 25 July 2024 – April 2025

   Locum tenens of Feodosiya and Kerch

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 24 October 2015 by:

• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Clement Kapalin Metropolitan of Kaluga and Borovsk, b. 1949
• Hilarion Alfeyev Metropolitan of Budapest and Hungary, b. 1966
• Longin Korchagin Metropolitan of Simbirsk and Novospasskoye, b. 1961
• Maximilian Lazarenko Archbishop of Pesochenskii and Yukhnov, b. 1950
• Feognost Guzikov Metropolitan of Kashira, b. 1960
• Sergii Chashin Metropolitan of Singapore and Southeast Asia, b. 1974
• Nikita Ananiev Metropolitan of Krasnoyarsk and Achinsk, b. 1969

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. Tikhon Shevkunov Metropolitan of Simferopol and the Crimea consecrated 24 October 2015
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 6

• 2 December 2015Paramon Golubka Bishop of Gorodets and Vetluga, b. 1977
• 28 December 2015Anthony Prostikhin Bishop of Slavgorod and Kamensk, b. 1976
• 18 June 2017Aksii Lobov Archbishop of Podilsk and Lyubertsy, b. 1980
• 18 November 2017Theophan Danchenkov Bishop of Volzhsk and Sernur, b. 1975
• 20 November 2017Ignatii Suranov Bishop of Cherepovets and Belozersk, b. 1978
• 18 July 2019Siluan Nikitin Bishop of Petergof, b. 1986

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata