Anastasii Metkin

Life

Born

27 August 1944

Ordained deacon

6 May 1968

Ordained priest

7 February 1972

Monastic tonsure

5 September 1976

Made archimandrite

5 September 1976

Consecrated bishop

11 December 1988

Made archbishop

25 February 1996

Made metropolitan

18 July 2012

Retired

30 August 2019

Sees

1. 11 December 1988 – 11 June 1993

   Bishop of Kazan and Mari El

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 11 June 1993 – 25 February 1996

   Bishop of Kazan and Tatarstan

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 25 February 1996 – 6 June 2012

   Archbishop of Kazan and Tatarstan

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 6 June 2012 – 18 July 2012

   Archbishop of Tatarstan

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 18 July 2012 – 13 July 2015

   Metropolitan of Tatarstan

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 13 July 2015 – 30 August 2019

   Metropolitan of Simbirsk and Novospasskoye

   Patriarchate of Moscow

7. 30 August 2019 – present

   Former Metropolitan of Simbirsk and Novospasskoye

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 11 December 1988 by:

• Vladimir Sabodan Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, 1935–2014
• Valentine Mishchuk Metropolitan of Orenburg and Buzuluk, b. 1940
• Paisii Samchuk Archbishop of Oryol and Livny, 1930–2008
• Victor Oleinik Metropolitan of Tver and Kashin, b. 1940

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. Anastasii Metkin Former Metropolitan of Simbirsk and Novospasskoye consecrated 11 December 1988
2. Victor Oleinik Metropolitan of Tver and Kashin, b. 1940 consecrated 4 December 1988
3. Leontii Bondar Metropolitan of Orenburg and Buzuluk, 1913–1999 consecrated 10 August 1956
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

• 25 July 1993John Timofeyev Metropolitan of Yoshkar-Ola and Mari El, b. 1958
• 1 August 2010Iliya Bykov Bishop of Balakhna, b. 1954
• 11 July 2012Mefodii Zaitsev Bishop of Almetievsk and Bugulma, b. 1978
• 1 August 2012Pitirim Tvorogov Bishop of Dushanbe and Tajikistan, b. 1967
• 18 May 2015Parmen Shchipelev Bishop of Chistopol and Nizhnekamsk, b. 1956
• 12 July 2015Nicholas Krivenko Bishop of Severobaikalsk and Sosnovo-Ozerskoye, b. 1971

Sources

Also in: Wikidata