Damian Parfyonov

Life

Born

14 August 1980

Ordained deacon

August 2001

Monastic tonsure

14 January 2002

Ordained priest

15 October 2003

Made archimandrite

15 October 2003

Consecrated bishop

27 December 2004

Made metropolitan

2011

Sees

1. 27 December 2004 – 2006

   Bishop of Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi

   Vicar of Odessa · Self-proclaimed/Independent

2. 2006 – 2009

   Hegumen

   True Orthodox Church in Russia (Rafail)

3. 2009 – 2011

   Bishop

   True Orthodox Church in Russia (Rafail)

4. 2011 – present

   Metropolitan of Nizhny Novgorod and Arzamas

   Patriarchate of the Russian True Orthodox Catacomb Church

Consecration

Consecrated 27 December 2004 by:

• Luke Nikolayenko Metropolitan of Odessa and Izmail, cons. 2002
• Afanasii Lobov Bishop

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 16 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Damian Parfyonov Metropolitan of Nizhny Novgorod and Arzamas consecrated 27 December 2004
2. Luke Nikolayenko Metropolitan of Odessa and Izmail, cons. 2002 consecrated 19 December 2002
3. Benedict Molchanov Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, b. 1975 consecrated 16 January 2000
4. Stephen Linitskii Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Mozhaisk, b. 1934 consecrated 17 December 1996
5. John Modzalevskii Archbishop of Uman, b. 1970 consecrated 17 June 1996
6. Roman Blashchuk/Balashchuk Metropolitan of Vinnytsya and Bratslav, b. 1953 consecrated 22 May 1990
7. John Bodnarchuk Metropolitan of Lutsk and Volyn, 1929–1994 consecrated 23 October 1977
8. Nicholas Yurik Metropolitan of Lviv and Ternopil, 1910–1984 consecrated 31 October 1965
9. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
10. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
11. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
12. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
13. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
14. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
15. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
16. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
17. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 2

• 11 May 2012Peter Kirichenko Metropolitan of Solntsevo and Odintsovo, d. 2016
• 29 November 2012Melkhisedek Dudka Archbishop of Odessa and Taurida, 1987–2016