Arsenii Kiselev

Life

Monastic tonsure

1990s

Consecrated bishop

18 April 1995

Made archbishop

1998

Made metropolitan

2004

Sees

1. 18 April 1995 – 1997

   Bishop of Tula and Bryansk

   Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church

2. 1997 – 1998

   Bishop of Tula and Bryansk

   Provisional Supreme Ecclesiastical Administration of the Orthodox Russian Church

3. 1998

   Bishop of Vladimir and Murom

   Russian True Orthodox Church

4. 1998

   Archbishop of Vladimir and Murom

   Russian True Orthodox Church

5. 1998 – 1999

   Archbishop of Vladimir and Murom

   Russian True Orthodox Church (Amvrosii)

6. 1999 – 2003

   Archbishop of Vladimir and Murom

   Self-proclaimed/Independent

7. 2003 – 2004

   Archbishop of Vladimir and Tula

   True Orthodox Church in Russia (Rafail)

8. 2004 – 2005

   Metropolitan of Kolomna and Mozhaisk

   True Orthodox Church in Russia (Rafail)

9. 2005 – 2006

   Metropolitan of Kolomna and Mozhaisk

   Synod of Metropolitans

10. 2006 – 2010

    Metropolitan of Kolomna and Mozhaisk

    Orthodox Russian Church (Supreme Church Administration)

11. 2010 – present

    Metropolitan of Kolomna and Mozhaisk

    True Orthodox Church in Russia (Rafail)

Consecration

Consecrated 18 April 1995 by:

• Valentine Rusantsov Metropolitan of Suzdal and Vladimir, 1939–2012
• Theodore Gineyevskii Metropolitan of Suzdal and Vladimir, b. 1955
• Serapheim Zinchenko Archbishop of Sukhumi and Abkhazia, b. 1936
• Alexander Mironov Metropolitan of Kazan

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. Arsenii Kiselev Metropolitan of Kolomna and Mozhaisk consecrated 18 April 1995
2. Valentine Rusantsov Metropolitan of Suzdal and Vladimir, 1939–2012 consecrated 10 February 1991
3. Anthony Bartoshevich Archbishop of Geneva and Western Europe, 1910–1993 consecrated 5 May 1957
4. John Maximovich Archbishop of San Francisco and Western America, 1896–1966 consecrated 1934
5. Anthony Khrapovitsky Metropolitan of Kyiv and Halych, 1863–1936 consecrated 7 September 1897
6. Arsenii Bryantsev Archbishop of Kharkiv and Okhtyrka, 1839–1914 consecrated 17 May 1882
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 3

• 1996Tikhon Kiselyov Archbishop of Penza and Siberia, cons. 1996
• 1998Nicholas Modebadze Bishop of Poti, b. 1960
• 23 February 2004Anthony Bozhuk Metropolitan of Orekhovo-Zuyevo, b. 1935