Serapheim Amelchenkov

Life

Born

25 April 1985

Monastic tonsure

22 April 2008

Ordained deacon

27 April 2008

Ordained priest

15 June 2008

Elected bishop

4 May 2017

Made archimandrite

10 May 2017

Consecrated bishop

4 June 2017

Sees

1. 4 June 2017 – 14 July 2018

   Bishop of Lyubertsy

   Vicar of the Patriarch of Moscow · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 14 July 2018 – 9 July 2019

   Bishop of Petergof

   Vicar of Saint Petersburg · Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 9 July 2019 – present

   Bishop of Istra

   Vicar of the Patriarch of Moscow · Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 4 June 2017 by:

• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Isidore Tupikin Metropolitan of Smolensk and Dorogobuzh, b. 1974
• George Chrysostomou Metropolitan of Kitros, Katerini and Platamon, b. 1964
• Eugene Reshetnikov Archbishop of Vereya, b. 1957
• Serapheim Melkonyan Metropolitan of Baltiysk and Svetlogorsk, b. 1961
• Feognost Guzikov Metropolitan of Kashira, b. 1960
• Sergii Chashin Metropolitan of Singapore and Southeast Asia, b. 1974

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 Amelchenkov Bishop of Istra consecrated 4 June 2017
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 4

• 18 June 2017Aksii Lobov Archbishop of Podilsk and Lyubertsy, b. 1980
• 18 November 2017Theophan Danchenkov Bishop of Volzhsk and Sernur, b. 1975
• 20 November 2017Ignatii Suranov Bishop of Cherepovets and Belozersk, b. 1978
• 7 July 2019Ignatii Grigoriev Bishop of Guriev, b. 1967

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata