Benjamin Zaritskii

Life

Born

12 September 1953

Ordained deacon

30 March 1975

Ordained priest

6 April 1975

Monastic tonsure

27 May 1977

Made hegumen

25 March 1982

Made archimandrite

6 June 1987

Consecrated bishop

14 August 2003

Made metropolitan

1 August 2012

Died

6 September 2023

Sees

1. 14 August 2003 – 31 May 2010

   Bishop of Lyubertsy

   Vicar of Moscow · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 31 May 2010 – 26 July 2012

   Bishop of Penza and Kuznetsy

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. July 2012 – August 2013

   Locum tenens of Serdobsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 26 July 2012 – 1 August 2012

   Bishop of Penza and Nizhny Lomov

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 1 August 2012 – 25 December 2013

   Metropolitan of Penza and Nizhny Lomov

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 25 December 2013 – 22 October 2015

   Metropolitan of Ryazan and Mikhailovka

   Patriarchate of Moscow

7. 30 May 2014 – date unknown

   Locum tenens of Skopin and Shatsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

8. 22 October 2015 – 6 September 2023

   Metropolitan of Orenburg and Saraktash

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 14 August 2003 by:

• Aleksii II Ridiger Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1929–2008
• Juvenal Poyarkov Former Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomenskoye, b. 1935
• Sergii Fomin Metropolitan of Voronezh and Liski, b. 1949
• Victor Oleinik Metropolitan of Tver and Kashin, b. 1940
• Arsenii Epifanov Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Zadonsk, b. 1955
• Paul Ponomaryov Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomna, b. 1952
• Eugene Reshetnikov Archbishop of Vereya, b. 1957
• Cyril Nakonechnii Metropolitan of Kazan and Tatarstan, b. 1961
• Nephon Saykali Metropolitan of Philippopolis (Chehba), cons. 1988
• Aleksii Frolov Archbishop of Kostroma and Halych, 1947–2013
• Savva Volkov Archbishop of Tiraspol and Dubăsari, b. 1958
• Alexander Ishchein Archbishop of Baku and Azerbaijan, 1952–2021
• Alexander Agrikov Metropolitan of Bryansk and Sevsk, b. 1953
• Feognost Guzikov Metropolitan of Kashira, b. 1960
• Irinarkh Grezin Bishop of Ramenskoye, 1951–2024

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. Benjamin Zaritskii Metropolitan of Orenburg and Saraktash consecrated 14 August 2003
2. Alexander Agrikov Metropolitan of Bryansk and Sevsk, b. 1953 consecrated 2 September 2001
3. Herman Swaiko Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada, 1931–2022 consecrated 10 February 1973
4. Silvester Haruns Archbishop of Montréal and Canada, 1914–2000 consecrated 27 April 1952
5. Vladimir Tikhonitskii Metropolitan of Białystok, 1873–1959 consecrated 3 June 1907
6. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
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 22

• 19 August 2003Longin Korchagin Metropolitan of Simbirsk and Novospasskoye, b. 1961
• 14 January 2004Mark Golovkov Metropolitan of Korsun and Western Europe, b. 1964
• 27 September 2004Zosima Davydov Bishop of Yakutsk and Lensk, 1963–2010
• 30 January 2005Savvatii Antonov Metropolitan of Cheboksary and Chuvash, b. 1968
• 26 March 2005Ambrose Ermakov Metropolitan of Tver and Kashin, b. 1970
• 3 April 2005Tikhon Lobkovskii Archbishop of Maikop and Adygea, b. 1968
• 2 June 2005Pankratii Zherdev Archbishop of Troitskii, b. 1955
• 19 August 2006Alexander Matryonin Bishop of Daugavpils and Rēzekne, b. 1973
• 15 February 2007Sergii Chashin Metropolitan of Singapore and Southeast Asia, b. 1974
• 2 June 2008Ieronim Chernyshov Bishop of Oryol and Livny, b. 1966
• 21 July 2009Lazar Gurkin Bishop of Narva and Prichudye, b. 1969
• 2 December 2009Clement Rodaikin Bishop of Krasnoslobodsk and Temnikov, b. 1971
• 1 August 2010Iliya Bykov Bishop of Balakhna, b. 1954
• 22 May 2011Serapheim Glushakov Bishop of Anadyr and Chukotka, 1969–2020
• 19 December 2011Pakhomii Bruskov Bishop of Borovichi and Pestovo, b. 1976
• 22 April 2012Barnabas Baranov Bishop of Karasuk and Ordynskoye, b. 1965
• 1 August 2012Pitirim Tvorogov Bishop of Dushanbe and Tajikistan, b. 1967
• 12 September 2012Serapheim Domnin Metropolitan of Penza and Nizhny Lomov, b. 1977
• 19 August 2013Mitrofan Seryogin Bishop of Serdobsk and Spasskii, b. 1972
• 18 May 2014Nestor Lyuberanskii Bishop of Tolyatti and Zhiguli, b. 1975
• 31 August 2014Victor Sergeyev Bishop of Glazov and Igra, b. 1954
• 1 August 2016Eugene Kulberg Metropolitan of Ekaterinburg and Verkhoturye, b. 1972

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata