Paisii Kuznetsov

Life

Born

22 August 1975

Ordained deacon

1 March 1996

Ordained priest

24 March 1996

Monastic tonsure

7 September 2012

Elected bishop

4 October 2012

Made archimandrite

14 October 2012

Consecrated bishop

6 December 2012

Sees

1. 6 December 2012 – present

   Bishop of Yaransk and Luzsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 6 December 2012 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
• Mark Tuzhikov Metropolitan of Vyatka and Sloboda, b. 1961
• Gregory Chirkov Archbishop of Mozhaisk, 1942–2018
• Ilian Vostryakov Bishop of Serpukhov, b. 1945
• Tikhon Nedosekin Bishop of Vidnoye, b. 1956
• Roman Gavrilov Bishop of Serpukhov, b. 1957
• Sergii Chashin Metropolitan of Singapore and Southeast Asia, b. 1974
• Nicholas Pogrebnyak Bishop of Balashikha and Orekhovo-Zuevo, b. 1950
• Constantine Ostrovskii Metropolitan of Cairo and North Africa, b. 1977

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. Paisii Kuznetsov Bishop of Yaransk and Luzsk consecrated 6 December 2012
2. Tikhon Nedosekin Bishop of Vidnoye, b. 1956 consecrated 10 August 1999
3. Pitirim Nechayev Metropolitan of Volokolamsk and Yuriev, 1926–2003 consecrated 23 May 1963
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 3

• 23 December 2012Daniel Kuznetsov Bishop of Guriev, b. 1980
• 3 November 2013Tikhon Bobov Bishop of Ishim and Aromashevo, b. 1954
• 14 December 2014Leonid Tolmachyov Bishop of Iskitim, b. 1975

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata