Merkurii Ivanov

Life

Born

21 January 1964

Monastic tonsure

12 March 1988

Ordained deacon

15 January 1989

Ordained priest

6 August 1989

Made archimandrite

9 January 2000

Consecrated bishop

6 February 2000

Made metropolitan

8 October 2011

Sees

1. 6 February 2000 – 27 July 2011

   Bishop of Zaraisk

   Vicar of the Patriarch of Moscow · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 27 July 2011 – 8 October 2011

   Bishop of Rostov and Novocherkassk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 8 October 2011 – present

   Metropolitan of Rostov and Novocherkassk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 30 August 2019 – 24 September 2021

   Locum tenens of Volgodonsk and Salsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 22 October 2026 – present

   Locum tenens of Shakhty and Millerovo

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 6 February 2000 by:

• Aleksii II Ridiger Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1929–2008
• Filaret Vakhromeyev Metropolitan of Minsk and Slutsk, 1935–2021
• Juvenal Poyarkov Former Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomenskoye, b. 1935
• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Sergii Fomin Metropolitan of Voronezh and Liski, b. 1949
• Pitirim Nechayev Metropolitan of Volokolamsk and Yuriev, 1926–2003
• Evsevii Savvin Metropolitan of Pskov and Porkhov, b. 1939
• Victor Oleinik Metropolitan of Tver and Kashin, b. 1940
• Tikhon Emelyanov Metropolitan of Vladimir and Suzdal, b. 1948
• Panteleimon Kutovoi Metropolitan of Krasnoyarsk and Achinsk, b. 1955
• Aleksii Frolov Archbishop of Kostroma and Halych, 1947–2013
• Savva Volkov Archbishop of Tiraspol and Dubăsari, b. 1958

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. Merkurii Ivanov Metropolitan of Rostov and Novocherkassk consecrated 6 February 2000
2. Pitirim Nechayev Metropolitan of Volokolamsk and Yuriev, 1926–2003 consecrated 23 May 1963
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 23

• 26 March 2005Ambrose Ermakov Metropolitan of Tver and Kashin, b. 1970
• 7 July 2005Ignatii Punin Bishop of Minusinsk and Kuraginsk, b. 1973
• 21 July 2009Lazar Gurkin Bishop of Narva and Prichudye, b. 1969
• 23 January 2011Tikhon Dorovskikh Metropolitan of Oryol and Bolkhov, b. 1959
• 3 April 2011Zinovii Korzinkin Metropolitan of Saransk and Mordovia, b. 1948
• 10 April 2011Artemii Snigur Metropolitan of Khabarovsk and Priamurskii, b. 1962
• 17 April 2011Nicholas Chashin Archbishop of Salekhard and Novo-Urengoisk, b. 1972
• 12 June 2011Paul Fokin Metropolitan of Khanty-Mansiysk and Surgut, b. 1956
• 19 June 2011Roman Lukin Archbishop of Yakutsk and Lensk, b. 1968
• 21 August 2011Ignatii Deputatov Metropolitan of Saratov and Volsk, b. 1977
• 11 September 2011Cornelius Sinyayev Metropolitan of Arkhangelsk and Kholmogory, b. 1976
• 12 October 2011John Pavlikhin Archbishop of Magadan and Sinegorsk, b. 1974
• 14 October 2011Benjamin Kirillov Bishop of Kronstadt, b. 1979
• 13 December 2012Gedeon Gubka Bishop of Vyksa and Pavlovsk, b. 1962
• 27 January 2013Varlaam Ponomaryov Archbishop of Makhachkala and Derbent, b. 1974
• 31 March 2013Silouan Vyurov Bishop of Pavlovo-Posadskii, b. 1972
• 11 July 2014Simon Morozov Bishop of Atkarsk, b. 1975
• 18 May 2015Parmen Shchipelev Bishop of Chistopol and Nizhnekamsk, b. 1956
• 1 September 2015Vladimir Novikov Bishop of Klintsy and Trubchevsk, b. 1958
• 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
• 28 August 2020Artemii Kuzmin Bishop of Taganrog, b. 1983

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata