Flavian Mitrofanov

Life

Born

17 November 1975

Ordained deacon

31 December 1995

Ordained priest

13 April 1997

Monastic tonsure

19 August 2014

Elected bishop

23 October 2014

Made archimandrite

25 October 2014

Consecrated bishop

23 November 2014

Retired

25 August 2020 (relieved of the diocese)

Defrocked

29 December 2020

Sees

1. 23 November 2014 – 25 August 2020

   Bishop of Cherepovets and Belozersk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 25 August 2020 – 29 December 2020

   Former Bishop of Cherepovets and Belozersk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 29 December 2020 – present

   Monk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 23 November 2014 by:

• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Varsonofii Sudakov Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, b. 1955
• Paul Ponomaryov Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomna, b. 1952
• John Popov Metropolitan of Belgorod and Staryi Oskol, b. 1960
• Nicholas Pachuashvili Metropolitan of Akhalkalaki, Kumurdo and Kars, b. 1961
• Cyril Nakonechnii Metropolitan of Kazan and Tatarstan, b. 1961
• Cyril Pokrovskii Metropolitan of Stavropol and Nevinnomyssk, b. 1963
• Ignatii Deputatov Metropolitan of Saratov and Volsk, b. 1977
• Justinian Ovchinnikov Archbishop of Elista and Kalmykia, b. 1961
• Elisei Ganaba Archbishop of the Hague and the Netherlands, b. 1962
• Tikhon Dorovskikh Metropolitan of Oryol and Bolkhov, b. 1959
• Sergii Chashin Metropolitan of Singapore and Southeast Asia, b. 1974
• Sofronii Kitayev Bishop of Gubkin and Graivoron, b. 1978
• Aleksii Mulyar Bishop of Sayansk and Nizhneudinsk, b. 1976
• Isidore Tupikin Metropolitan of Smolensk and Dorogobuzh, b. 1974
• Silouan Vyurov Bishop of Pavlovo-Posadskii, b. 1972
• Ferapont Kashin Metropolitan of Kostroma and Nerekhta, b. 1969
• Anthony Azizov Bishop of Volgodonsk and Salsk, b. 1979
• Ignatii Tarasov Bishop of Kostomuksha and Kem, b. 1976
• Hermogen Seryi Bishop of Michurinsk and Morshansk, b. 1973
• Roman Kornev Bishop of Rubtsovsk and Aleisk, b. 1972
• Tikhon Bobov Bishop of Ishim and Aromashevo, b. 1954
• John Kovalenko Bishop of Kalach-na-Donu and Pallasovka, b. 1970
• Silouan Glazkin Bishop of Kalachinsk and Muromtsevo, b. 1969
• Mefodii Kondratiev Bishop of Kamensk and Alapayevsk, b. 1957
• Victorin Kostenkov Metropolitan of Izhevsk and Udmurtia, b. 1953
• Gregory Petrov Metropolitan of Voskresensk, b. 1974
• Ignatii Buzin Bishop of Armavir and Labinsk, b. 1973
• Nestor Lyuberanskii Bishop of Tolyatti and Zhiguli, b. 1975
• Agafangel Daineko Bishop of Norilsk and Turukhansk, b. 1975
• Simon Morozov Bishop of Atkarsk, b. 1975

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. Flavian Mitrofanov Bishop of Cherepovets and Belozersk consecrated 23 November 2014
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 2

• 9 July 2015Vsevolod Ponich Bishop of Urzhum and Omutninsk, b. 1961
• 2 May 2017Tarasii Perov Bishop of Severomorsk and Umba, b. 1976

Sources

Suspended from ministry on 2020-12-08 and deposed on 2020-12-29 by the Holy Synod (patriarchia.ru)

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata