Serapheim Domnin

Life

Born

25 September 1977

Ordained deacon

27 July 1997

Ordained priest

11 September 1997

Monastic tonsure

2 April 1999

Elected bishop

26 July 2012

Made archimandrite

14 August 2012

Consecrated bishop

12 September 2012

Made metropolitan

1 February 2014

Sees

1. 12 September 2012 – 25 December 2013

   Bishop of Kuznetsk and Nikolsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 25 December 2013 – 1 February 2014

   Bishop of Penza and Nizhny Lomov

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 1 February 2014 – present

   Metropolitan of Penza and Nizhny Lomov

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 12 September 2012 by:

• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Varsonofii Sudakov Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, b. 1955
• Panteleimon Kutovoi Metropolitan of Krasnoyarsk and Achinsk, b. 1955
• Benjamin Zaritskii Metropolitan of Orenburg and Saraktash, 1953–2023
• Bartholomew Vashchuk Metropolitan of Rivne and Ostroh, 1953–2021
• Sergii Chashin Metropolitan of Singapore and Southeast Asia, b. 1974
• Nikodim Chibisov Metropolitan of Ryazan and Mikhailovka, b. 1969
• Filaret Gusev Bishop of Dalneye Konstantinovo, b. 1975

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. Serapheim Domnin Metropolitan of Penza and Nizhny Lomov consecrated 12 September 2012
2. Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946 consecrated 14 March 1976
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 7

• 18 November 2012Basil Danilov Bishop of Kotlas and Velsk, b. 1956
• 19 August 2013Mitrofan Seryogin Bishop of Serdobsk and Spasskii, b. 1972
• 3 November 2013Tikhon Bobov Bishop of Ishim and Aromashevo, b. 1954
• 18 May 2014Nestor Lyuberanskii Bishop of Tolyatti and Zhiguli, b. 1975
• 11 July 2014Simon Morozov Bishop of Atkarsk, b. 1975
• 1 August 2016Eugene Kulberg Metropolitan of Ekaterinburg and Verkhoturye, b. 1972
• 2 May 2017Tarasii Perov Bishop of Severomorsk and Umba, b. 1976

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata