Isidore Tupikin

Life

Born

27 May 1974

Monastic tonsure

31 March 2006

Ordained deacon

16 April 2006

Ordained priest

19 December 2006

Elected bishop

12 March 2013

Made archimandrite

14 March 2013

Consecrated bishop

17 March 2013

Made metropolitan

21 May 2015

Sees

1. 17 March 2013 – 5 May 2015

   Bishop of Smolensk and Vyazma

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 5 May 2015 – 21 May 2015

   Bishop of Smolensk and Roslavl

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 21 May 2015 – 4 May 2017

   Metropolitan of Smolensk and Roslavl

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 4 May 2017 – present

   Metropolitan of Smolensk and Dorogobuzh

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. October 2024 – December 2025

   Locum tenens of Vyazma and Gagarinskii

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 17 March 2013 by:

• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Juvenal Poyarkov Former Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomenskoye, b. 1935
• Hilarion Alfeyev Metropolitan of Budapest and Hungary, b. 1966
• Arsenii Epifanov Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Zadonsk, b. 1955
• Mark Golovkov Metropolitan of Korsun and Western Europe, b. 1964
• Sergii Chashin Metropolitan of Singapore and Southeast Asia, b. 1974
• Tikhon Zaitsev Archbishop of Ruza, b. 1967
• Panteleimon Shatov Bishop of Vereya, b. 1950
• Savva Mikheyev Metropolitan of Vologda and Kirillov, b. 1980

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. Isidore Tupikin Metropolitan of Smolensk and Dorogobuzh consecrated 17 March 2013
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 14

• 13 June 2013Sergii Bulatnikov Bishop of Velikie Luki and Nevel, b. 1950
• 23 February 2014Victorin Kostenkov Metropolitan of Izhevsk and Udmurtia, b. 1953
• 6 July 2014Agafangel Daineko Bishop of Norilsk and Turukhansk, b. 1975
• 23 November 2014Flavian Mitrofanov Bishop of Cherepovets and Belozersk, b. 1975
• 21 May 2015Sergii Zyatkov Bishop of Novorossiisk and Gelendzhik, b. 1967
• 2 December 2015Paramon Golubka Bishop of Gorodets and Vetluga, b. 1977
• 1 August 2016Eugene Kulberg Metropolitan of Ekaterinburg and Verkhoturye, b. 1972
• 27 November 2016Nicholas Degtyaryov Bishop of Chernyakovsk and Slavsk, b. 1963
• 4 June 2017Serapheim Amelchenkov Bishop of Istra, b. 1985
• 11 June 2017Meletii Pavlyuchenkov Bishop of Roslavl and Desnogorsk, b. 1977
• 20 November 2017Ignatii Suranov Bishop of Cherepovets and Belozersk, b. 1978
• 3 March 2019Savva Tutunov Archbishop of Zelenograd, b. 1978
• 18 July 2019Siluan Nikitin Bishop of Petergof, b. 1986
• 5 June 2022Evsevii Tyukhlov Bishop of Drutsk, b. 1975

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata