Parmen Shchipelev

Life

Born

1 May 1956

Ordained deacon

17 September 1980

Ordained priest

21 September 1980

Monastic tonsure

28 November 2002

Elected bishop

5 May 2015

Made archimandrite

10 May 2015

Consecrated bishop

18 May 2015

Retired

16 March 2023

Sees

1. 18 May 2015 – 4 April 2019

   Bishop of Chistopol and Nizhnekamsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 4 April 2019 – 26 December 2019

   Bishop of Troitsk and Yuzhnouralsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 26 December 2019 – 13 April 2021

   Bishop of Kopeysk

   Vicar of Chelyabinsk · Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 13 April 2021 – 16 March 2023

   Bishop of Vargashi

   Vicar of Kurgan · Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 16 March 2023 – present

   Bishop of Vargashi

   Vicar of Kurgan · Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 18 May 2015 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
• Anastasii Metkin Former Metropolitan of Simbirsk and Novospasskoye, b. 1944
• Merkurii Ivanov Metropolitan of Rostov and Novocherkassk, b. 1964
• Ilian Vostryakov Bishop of Serpukhov, b. 1945
• Tikhon Nedosekin Bishop of Vidnoye, b. 1956
• Roman Gavrilov Bishop of Serpukhov, b. 1957
• Sergii Chashin Metropolitan of Singapore and Southeast Asia, b. 1974
• Nicholas Pogrebnyak Bishop of Balashikha and Orekhovo-Zuevo, b. 1950
• Mefodii Zaitsev Bishop of Almetievsk and Bugulma, b. 1978
• Constantine Ostrovskii Metropolitan of Cairo and North Africa, b. 1977

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. Parmen Shchipelev Bishop of Chistopol and Nizhnekamsk consecrated 18 May 2015
2. Tikhon Nedosekin Bishop of Vidnoye, b. 1956 consecrated 10 August 1999
3. Pitirim Nechayev Metropolitan of Volokolamsk and Yuriev, 1926–2003 consecrated 23 May 1963
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

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata