Irinei Steenberg

Life

Born

7 December 1978

Ordained deacon

28 August 2007

Monastic tonsure

8 March 2010

Ordained priest

14 March 2010

Made archimandrite

26 August 2011

Consecrated bishop

6 November 2016

Sees

1. 6 November 2016 – 20 September 2018

   Bishop of Sacramento

   Vicar of Western America · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 20 September 2018 – 27 June 2019

   Bishop of Richmond and Western Europe

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 27 June 2019 – present

   Bishop of London and Western Europe

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 6 November 2016 by:

• Cyril Dmitriev Archbishop of San Francisco and Western America, b. 1954
• Peter Lukyanov Archbishop of Chicago and the Midwest, 1948–2024
• Feodosii Ivashchenko Bishop of Manhattan, b. 1964
• John Roshchin Metropolitan of Vienna and Austria, b. 1974

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 12 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Irinei Steenberg Bishop of London and Western Europe consecrated 6 November 2016
2. John Roshchin Metropolitan of Vienna and Austria, b. 1974 consecrated 1 August 2014
3. Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946 consecrated 14 March 1976
4. Nikodim Rotov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1929–1978 consecrated 10 July 1960
5. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
6. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
7. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
8. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
9. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
10. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
11. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
12. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
13. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 3

• 5 February 2017Sergii Telikh Bishop of Maardu, b. 1966
• 20 January 2019Alexander Bishop of Vevey, b. 1956
• 10 December 2021Job Bandmann Bishop of Stuttgart, b. 1982

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru