John Timofeyev

Life

Born

20 January 1958

Ordained deacon

4 November 1987

Monastic tonsure

23 April 1989

Ordained priest

15 February 1990

Made archimandrite

28 June 1993

Consecrated bishop

25 July 1993

Made archbishop

29 February 2004

Made metropolitan

4 November 2017

Sees

1. 25 July 1993 – 29 February 2004

   Bishop of Yoshkar-Ola and Mari El

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 29 February 2004 – 4 November 2017

   Archbishop of Yoshkar-Ola and Mari El

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 5 January 2011 – 22 March 2011

   Locum tenens of Vyatka and Sloboda

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 4 November 2017 – present

   Metropolitan of Yoshkar-Ola and Mari El

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 1 June 2020 – 25 August 2020

   Locum tenens of Cheboksary and Chuvash

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 20 November 2020 – 8 December 2020

   Locum tenens of Kazan and Tatarstan

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 25 July 1993 by:

• Aleksii II Ridiger Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1929–2008
• Barnabas Kedrov Metropolitan of Cheboksary and Chuvash, 1931–2020
• Nicholas Shkrumko Metropolitan of Izhevsk and Udmurtia, 1927–2015
• Anastasii Metkin Former Metropolitan of Simbirsk and Novospasskoye, b. 1944
• Arsenii Epifanov Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Zadonsk, b. 1955

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. John Timofeyev Metropolitan of Yoshkar-Ola and Mari El consecrated 25 July 1993
2. Aleksii II Ridiger Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1929–2008 consecrated 3 September 1961
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 6

• 1 August 2010Iliya Bykov Bishop of Balakhna, b. 1954
• 19 December 2011Pakhomii Bruskov Bishop of Borovichi and Pestovo, b. 1976
• 1 August 2012Pitirim Tvorogov Bishop of Dushanbe and Tajikistan, b. 1967
• 21 May 2015Sergii Zyatkov Bishop of Novorossiisk and Gelendzhik, b. 1967
• 1 August 2016Eugene Kulberg Metropolitan of Ekaterinburg and Verkhoturye, b. 1972
• 18 November 2017Theophan Danchenkov Bishop of Volzhsk and Sernur, b. 1975

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata