Bartholomew Denisov

Life

Born

26 February 1975

Monastic tonsure

24 June 2004

Ordained deacon

27 June 2004

Ordained priest

4 July 2004

Made hegumen

19 April 2009

Elected bishop

24 March 2022

Made archimandrite

29 March 2022

Consecrated bishop

17 April 2022

Made metropolitan

5 April 2026

Sees

1. 17 April 2022 – 12 March 2026

   Bishop of Balakovo and Nikolayevskii

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 12 March 2026 – 5 April 2026

   Bishop of Novosibirsk and Berdsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 5 April 2026 – present

   Metropolitan of Novosibirsk and Berdsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 17 April 2022 by:

• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Dionisii Porubai Metropolitan of Omsk and Priirtyshye, b. 1975
• Ignatii Deputatov Metropolitan of Saratov and Volsk, b. 1977
• Tarasii Vladimirov Bishop of Balashov and Rtishchevo, b. 1974
• Pakhomii Bruskov Bishop of Borovichi and Pestovo, b. 1976
• Silouan Vyurov Bishop of Pavlovo-Posadskii, b. 1972
• Simon Morozov Bishop of Atkarsk, b. 1975

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. Bartholomew Denisov Metropolitan of Novosibirsk and Berdsk consecrated 17 April 2022
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

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru