Stephen Gordeyev

Life

Born

5 July 1966

Monastic tonsure

5 April 1996

Ordained deacon

10 April 1996

Ordained priest

19 May 1996

Elected bishop

5 October 2011

Made archimandrite

14 October 2011

Consecrated bishop

25 December 2011

Sees

1. 25 December 2011 – 4 October 2012

   Bishop of Alatyr

   Vicar of Cheboksary · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 4 October 2012 – 27 May 2022

   Bishop of Kanash and Yantikovo

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 27 May 2022 – present

   Bishop of Kanash and Belaya Volozhka

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 25 December 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
• Barnabas Kedrov Metropolitan of Cheboksary and Chuvash, 1931–2020
• Eugene Reshetnikov Archbishop of Vereya, b. 1957
• Savvatii Antonov Metropolitan of Cheboksary and Chuvash, b. 1968
• Sergii Chashin Metropolitan of Singapore and Southeast Asia, b. 1974
• Clement Rodaikin Bishop of Krasnoslobodsk and Temnikov, b. 1971
• Benjamin Kirillov Bishop of Kronstadt, b. 1979

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. Stephen Gordeyev Bishop of Kanash and Belaya Volozhka consecrated 25 December 2011
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 2

• 2 December 2012Theodore Belkov Bishop of Pokrovsk and Novouzensk, b. 1960
• 20 November 2017Ignatii Suranov Bishop of Cherepovets and Belozersk, b. 1978

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata