Tikhon Emelyanov

Life

Born

2 June 1948

Ordained deacon

4 December 1978

Monastic tonsure

19 March 1981

Ordained priest

1 May 1981

Made archimandrite

4 July 1984

Elected bishop

25 January 1990

Consecrated bishop

19 August 1990

Made archbishop

25 February 2000

Made metropolitan

8 January 2012

Retired

27 December 2024

Sees

1. 19 August 1990 – 17 July 1995

   Bishop of Novosibirsk and Barnaul

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 17 July 1995 – 25 February 2000

   Bishop of Bronnitsy

   Vicar of Moscow · Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 25 February 2000 – 28 December 2000

   Archbishop of Bronnitsy

   Vicar of Moscow · Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 28 December 2000 – 8 January 2012

   Archbishop of Novosibirsk and Berdsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 8 January 2012 – 28 December 2018

   Metropolitan of Novosibirsk and Berdsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 28 December 2018 – 27 December 2024

   Metropolitan of Vladimir and Suzdal

   Patriarchate of Moscow

7. 27 December 2024 – present

   Former Metropolitan of Vladimir and Suzdal

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 19 August 1990 by:

• Aleksii II Ridiger Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1929–2008
• Juvenal Poyarkov Former Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomenskoye, b. 1935
• Clement Kapalin Metropolitan of Kaluga and Borovsk, b. 1949
• Arsenii Epifanov Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Zadonsk, b. 1955
• Victor Pyankov Bishop of Podilsk, b. 1944

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. Tikhon Emelyanov Metropolitan of Vladimir and Suzdal consecrated 19 August 1990
2. Aleksii II Ridiger Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1929–2008 consecrated 3 September 1961
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 22

• 19 August 1995Aleksii Frolov Archbishop of Kostroma and Halych, 1947–2013
• 3 September 1995Mark Tuzhikov Metropolitan of Vyatka and Sloboda, b. 1961
• 12 September 1995Savva Volkov Archbishop of Tiraspol and Dubăsari, b. 1958
• 31 March 1996Nikon Vasin Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Zadonsk, b. 1942
• 1 August 1997Jonathan Tsvetkov Archbishop of Abakan and Khakassia, b. 1962
• 15 February 1998Anatolii Aksyonov Bishop of Qostanai and Rudnyi, b. 1958
• 15 March 1998Cyril Nakonechnii Metropolitan of Kazan and Tatarstan, b. 1961
• 8 September 1998Joseph Makedonov Metropolitan of Ivanovo-Voznesenskii and Vichuga, b. 1964
• 12 September 1998Anatolii Botnari Archbishop of Cahul and Comrat, b. 1950
• 14 January 1999Alexander Ishchein Archbishop of Baku and Azerbaijan, 1952–2021
• 31 January 1999Joseph Balabanov Metropolitan of Ulan-Ude and Buryatia, b. 1954
• 10 August 1999Tikhon Nedosekin Bishop of Vidnoye, b. 1956
• 14 November 1999Daniel Nushiro Archbishop of Tokyo, Metropolitan of All Japan, 1938–2023
• 15 January 2000Serapheim Tsujie Archbishop of Tokyo, Metropolitan of All Japan, b. 1951
• 6 February 2000Merkurii Ivanov Metropolitan of Rostov and Novocherkassk, b. 1964
• 10 August 2000Diomid Dzyuban Bishop of Anadyr and Chukotka, 1961–2021
• 26 November 2000Feofan Ashurkov Metropolitan of Kazan and Tatarstan, 1947–2020
• 10 April 2011Artemii Snigur Metropolitan of Khabarovsk and Priamurskii, b. 1962
• 10 March 2012Luke Volchkov Bishop of Birobidzhan and Kuldur, b. 1971
• 11 March 2012Philip Novikov Metropolitan of Syktyvkar and Komi-Zyryanskii, b. 1973
• 17 March 2012Feodosii Chashchin Metropolitan of Samara and Novokuibyshevsk, b. 1973
• 8 January 2016Paul Grigoriev Metropolitan of Vladivostok and Primorye, b. 1974

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata