Serapheim Zaliznitskii

Life

Born

16 January 1953

Ordained deacon

24 February 1985

Ordained priest

30 May 1985

Monastic tonsure

31 July 1994

Consecrated bishop

1 August 1994

Made archbishop

25 June 2019

Made metropolitan

17 August 2021

Retired

23 November 2022

Sees

1. 1 August 1994 – 31 May 2007

   Bishop of Bila Tserkva and Bohuslav

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 31 May 2007 – 4 June 2007

   Bishop of Severodonetsk and Starobilsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 4 June 2007 – 29 January 2016

   Former Bishop of Severodonetsk and Starobilsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 29 January 2016 – 25 September 2018

   Bishop of Shumsk

   Vicar of Ternopil · Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 25 September 2018 – 25 June 2019

   Bishop of Ivano-Frankivsk and Kolomyya

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 25 June 2019 – 17 August 2021

   Archbishop of Ivano-Frankivsk and Kolomyya

   Patriarchate of Moscow

7. 17 August 2021 – 23 November 2022

   Metropolitan of Ivano-Frankivsk and Kolomyya

   Patriarchate of Moscow

8. 23 November 2022 – present

   Former Metropolitan of Ivano-Frankivsk and Kolomyya

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 1 August 1994 by:

• Vladimir Sabodan Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, 1935–2014
• Ioannikii Kobzev Metropolitan of Luhansk and Alchevsk, 1938–2020
• Jonathan Eletskikh Metropolitan of Tulchyn and Bratslav, b. 1949
• Hilarion Shukalo Metropolitan of Donetsk and Mariupol, b. 1951

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. Serapheim Zaliznitskii Metropolitan of Ivano-Frankivsk and Kolomyya consecrated 1 August 1994
2. Vladimir Sabodan Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, 1935–2014 consecrated 9 July 1966
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 6

• 13 December 1996John Siopko Metropolitan of Kherson and Taurida, b. 1964
• 26 November 2006Anthony Pakanich Metropolitan of Boryspil and Brovary, b. 1967
• 21 July 2009Lazar Gurkin Bishop of Narva and Prichudye, b. 1969
• 2 December 2013Aleksii Mulyar Bishop of Sayansk and Nizhneudinsk, b. 1976
• 2 December 2015Paramon Golubka Bishop of Gorodets and Vetluga, b. 1977
• 18 July 2019Siluan Nikitin Bishop of Petergof, b. 1986

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata