Paul Fokin

Life

Born

9 January 1956

Ordained deacon

21 September 1996

Ordained priest

27 September 1996

Monastic tonsure

8 October 1996

Made archimandrite

21 May 1998

Consecrated bishop

12 June 2011

Made metropolitan

1 February 2015

Sees

1. 12 June 2011 – 1 February 2015

   Bishop of Khanty-Mansiysk and Surgut

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 1 February 2015 – present

   Metropolitan of Khanty-Mansiysk and Surgut

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 30 August 2019 – present

   Locum tenens of Manila and Hanoi

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 16 March 2023 – 6 September 2024

   Locum tenens of Yugorsk and Nyagan

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 12 June 2011 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
• Alexander Mogilyov Metropolitan of Astana and Kazakhstan, b. 1957
• Victor Oleinik Metropolitan of Tver and Kashin, b. 1940
• Arsenii Epifanov Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Zadonsk, b. 1955
• Dimitrii Kapalin Metropolitan of Tobolsk and Tyumen, b. 1952
• Eugene Reshetnikov Archbishop of Vereya, b. 1957
• Cyril Nakonechnii Metropolitan of Kazan and Tatarstan, b. 1961
• Feognost Guzikov Metropolitan of Kashira, b. 1960
• Merkurii Ivanov Metropolitan of Rostov and Novocherkassk, b. 1964
• Sergii Chashin Metropolitan of Singapore and Southeast Asia, b. 1974
• Herman Kamalov Bishop of Sochi and Tuapse, b. 1968

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. Paul Fokin Metropolitan of Khanty-Mansiysk and Surgut consecrated 12 June 2011
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 11

• 22 May 2012Mstislav Dyachina Bishop of Tikhvin and Lodeinoye Pole, b. 1967
• 27 January 2013Varlaam Ponomaryov Archbishop of Makhachkala and Derbent, b. 1974
• 28 April 2013Ferapont Kashin Metropolitan of Kostroma and Nerekhta, b. 1969
• 3 November 2013Tikhon Bobov Bishop of Ishim and Aromashevo, b. 1954
• 22 June 2014Nikanor Anfilatov Archbishop of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk and the Kurile Islands, b. 1970
• 15 February 2015Fotii Evtikheyev Bishop of Velikii Ustyug and Totma, b. 1962
• 12 July 2015Nicholas Krivenko Bishop of Severobaikalsk and Sosnovo-Ozerskoye, b. 1971
• 26 October 2015Anthony Sevryuk Metropolitan of Volokolamsk, b. 1984
• 20 November 2017Ignatii Suranov Bishop of Cherepovets and Belozersk, b. 1978
• 18 July 2019Siluan Nikitin Bishop of Petergof, b. 1986
• 1 September 2020Pitirim Dondenko Bishop of Jakarta, b. 1979

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru