Cyril Pokrovskii

Life

Born

5 August 1963

Monastic tonsure

1989

Ordained deacon

1989

Ordained priest

1989

Made archimandrite

2000

Elected bishop

10 October 2009

Consecrated bishop

29 November 2009

Made metropolitan

18 July 2012

Sees

1. 29 November 2009 – 22 March 2011

   Bishop of Pavlovskii Posad

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 22 March 2011 – 18 July 2012

   Bishop of Stavropol

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. June 2012 – December 2012

   Locum tenens of Georgievsk and Praskoveya

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 18 July 2012 – present

   Metropolitan of Stavropol and Nevinnomyssk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. March 2014 – July 2014

   Locum tenens of Elista and Kalmykia

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 8 August 2020 – 25 August 2020

   Locum tenens of Ekaterinodar and Kuban

   Patriarchate of Moscow

7. 11 October 2023 – 27 December 2023

   Locum tenens of Ekaterinodar and Kuban

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 29 November 2009 by:

• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Nektarios Papadakis Metropolitan of Petras and Cheronissos, 1951–2015
• Juvenal Poyarkov Former Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomenskoye, b. 1935
• Cyril Kovachev Metropolitan of Varna and Veliki Preslav, 1954–2013
• Varsonofii Sudakov Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, b. 1955
• Arsenii Epifanov Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Zadonsk, b. 1955
• Rostislav Devyatov Metropolitan of Tomsk and Asino, b. 1963
• Eugene Reshetnikov Archbishop of Vereya, b. 1957
• Paul Lebed Metropolitan of Vyshhorod and Chernobyl, b. 1961
• Feognost Guzikov Metropolitan of Kashira, b. 1960
• George Danilov Metropolitan of Nizhny Novgorod and Arzamas, b. 1964
• Sergii Chashin Metropolitan of Singapore and Southeast Asia, b. 1974
• Tikhon Zaitsev Archbishop of Ruza, b. 1967

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. Cyril Pokrovskii Metropolitan of Stavropol and Nevinnomyssk consecrated 29 November 2009
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 15

• 2 December 2009Clement Rodaikin Bishop of Krasnoslobodsk and Temnikov, b. 1971
• 4 December 2011Feodosii Gazhu Bishop of Isilkul and Russkaya Polyana, b. 1970
• 22 April 2012Barnabas Baranov Bishop of Karasuk and Ordynskoye, b. 1965
• 1 September 2012Benjamin Korolyov Bishop of Zheleznogorsk and Lgov, 1965–2020
• 13 December 2012Gedeon Gubka Bishop of Vyksa and Pavlovsk, b. 1962
• 27 January 2013Varlaam Ponomaryov Archbishop of Makhachkala and Derbent, b. 1974
• 25 February 2014Stephen Kavtarashvili Bishop of Tikhoretsk and Korenovsk, b. 1971
• 1 September 2014Vladimir Agibalov Bishop of Novokuznetsk and Tashtagol, b. 1966
• 23 November 2014Flavian Mitrofanov Bishop of Cherepovets and Belozersk, b. 1975
• 22 February 2015Dimitrii Eliseyev Metropolitan of Chita and Petrovsk-Zabaikal, b. 1961
• 1 September 2015Vladimir Novikov Bishop of Klintsy and Trubchevsk, b. 1958
• 18 November 2017Theophan Danchenkov Bishop of Volzhsk and Sernur, b. 1975
• 20 November 2017Ignatii Suranov Bishop of Cherepovets and Belozersk, b. 1978
• 2 December 2018Spyridon Morozov Bishop of Birsk and Beloretsk, b. 1987
• 16 June 2019Aleksii Polikarpov Bishop of Solnechnogorsk, b. 1948

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata