Tikhon Dorovskikh

Life

Born

8 April 1959

Monastic tonsure

10 April 2003

Ordained deacon

13 April 2003

Ordained priest

20 April 2003

Made archimandrite

21 September 2010

Elected bishop

24 December 2010

Consecrated bishop

23 January 2011

Made archbishop

1 February 2014

Made metropolitan

21 April 2019

Sees

1. 23 January 2011 – 1 February 2014

   Bishop of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk and the Kurile Islands

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 1 February 2014 – 4 April 2019

   Archbishop of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk and the Kurile Islands

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 4 April 2019 – 21 April 2019

   Archbishop of Oryol and Bolkhov

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 21 April 2019 – present

   Metropolitan of Oryol and Bolkhov

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 23 January 2011 by:

• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Juvenal Poyarkov Former Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomenskoye, b. 1935
• Varsonofii Sudakov Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, b. 1955
• Serapheim Djodjua Metropolitan of Borjomi and Bakuriani, b. 1961
• Sergii Poletkin Metropolitan of Samara and Tolyattinsk, b. 1951
• Arsenii Epifanov Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Zadonsk, b. 1955
• Vincent Morar Metropolitan of Tashkent and Uzbekistan, b. 1953
• Eugene Reshetnikov Archbishop of Vereya, b. 1957
• George Danilov Metropolitan of Nizhny Novgorod and Arzamas, b. 1964
• Merkurii Ivanov Metropolitan of Rostov and Novocherkassk, b. 1964
• Daniel Dorovskikh Metropolitan of Kurgan and Belozersk, b. 1960
• Sergii Chashin Metropolitan of Singapore and Southeast Asia, b. 1974
• Barnabas Safonov Archbishop of Pavlodar and Ekibastuz, b. 1957

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 Dorovskikh Metropolitan of Oryol and Bolkhov consecrated 23 January 2011
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 3

• 23 November 2014Flavian Mitrofanov Bishop of Cherepovets and Belozersk, b. 1975
• 12 July 2015Nicholas Krivenko Bishop of Severobaikalsk and Sosnovo-Ozerskoye, b. 1971
• 21 April 2019Stephen Privalov Bishop of Alexandrovsk and Yuriev-Polskii, b. 1961

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata