Paul Ponomaryov

Life

Born

19 February 1952

Monastic tonsure

17 December 1977

Ordained deacon

5 March 1978

Ordained priest

6 May 1978

Made archimandrite

August 1986

Consecrated bishop

22 March 1992

Made archbishop

23 February 2001

Made metropolitan

8 October 2011

Sees

1. 22 March 1992 – 29 December 1999

   Bishop of Zaraisk

   Vicar of Moscow · Patriarchate of Moscow · administrator of the Patriarchal parishes in the USA (and until 1993-11-01 in Canada)

2. 29 December 1999 – 23 February 2001

   Bishop of Vienna and Austria

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 23 February 2001 – 7 May 2003

   Archbishop of Vienna and Budapest

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 7 May 2003 – 8 October 2011

   Archbishop of Ryazan and Kasimov

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 8 October 2011 – 25 December 2013

   Metropolitan of Ryazan and Mikhailovka

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 25 December 2013 – 23 October 2014

   Metropolitan of Minsk and Slutsk

   Exarch of All Belarus · Patriarchate of Moscow

7. 23 October 2014 – 25 August 2020

   Metropolitan of Minsk and Zaslavsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

8. 25 August 2020 – 15 April 2021

   Metropolitan of Ekaterinodar and Kuban

   Patriarchate of Moscow

9. 15 April 2021 – present

   Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomna

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 22 March 1992 by:

• Aleksii II Ridiger Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1929–2008
• Juvenal Poyarkov Former Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomenskoye, b. 1935
• Vladimir Sabodan Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, 1935–2014
• Vladimir Kotlyarov Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1929–2022
• Sergii Fomin Metropolitan of Voronezh and Liski, b. 1949
• Arsenii Epifanov Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Zadonsk, b. 1955
• Victor Pyankov Bishop of Podilsk, b. 1944

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 10 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Paul Ponomaryov Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomna consecrated 22 March 1992
2. Vladimir Kotlyarov Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1929–2022 consecrated 30 December 1962
3. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
4. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
5. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
6. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
7. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
8. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
9. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
10. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
11. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 35

• 21 July 1993Nikon Mironov Bishop of Kudymkar and Vereshchagino, b. 1960
• 19 August 1995Aleksii Frolov Archbishop of Kostroma and Halych, 1947–2013
• 1 August 1997Jonathan Tsvetkov Archbishop of Abakan and Khakassia, b. 1962
• 15 February 1998Anatolii Aksyonov Bishop of Qostanai and Rudnyi, b. 1958
• 11 November 2001Daniel Dorovskikh Metropolitan of Kurgan and Belozersk, b. 1960
• 20 January 2002Maksim Dmitriev Bishop of Yelets and Lebedyansk, b. 1961
• 14 August 2003Benjamin Zaritskii Metropolitan of Orenburg and Saraktash, 1953–2023
• 2 June 2008Ieronim Chernyshov Bishop of Oryol and Livny, b. 1966
• 20 February 2011Sebastian Osokin Archbishop of Qarağandy and Şahtinsk, b. 1961
• 22 May 2011Serapheim Glushakov Bishop of Anadyr and Chukotka, 1969–2020
• 11 July 2011Savva Mikheyev Metropolitan of Vologda and Kirillov, b. 1980
• 19 August 2011Innocent Yakovlev Bishop of Alexandrovsk and Yuriev-Polskii, b. 1947
• 21 August 2011Ignatii Deputatov Metropolitan of Saratov and Volsk, b. 1977
• 27 November 2011Dionisii Porubai Metropolitan of Omsk and Priirtyshye, b. 1975
• 2 December 2011Vladimir Samokhin Metropolitan of Donetsk and Mariupol, b. 1979
• 22 April 2012Barnabas Baranov Bishop of Karasuk and Ordynskoye, b. 1965
• 25 January 2013Ignatii Rumyantsev Bishop of Uvarovsk and Kirsanovsk, b. 1971
• 18 May 2014Nestor Lyuberanskii Bishop of Tolyatti and Zhiguli, b. 1975
• 23 November 2014Flavian Mitrofanov Bishop of Cherepovets and Belozersk, b. 1975
• 2 December 2014Paul Timofeyenkov Bishop of Molodechno and Stolbtsy, b. 1963
• 3 January 2015Anthony Doronin Archbishop of Hrodna and Vaŭkavysk, b. 1980
• 5 April 2015Porfirii Prednyuk Bishop of Lida and Smarhoń, b. 1970
• 12 July 2015Nicholas Krivenko Bishop of Severobaikalsk and Sosnovo-Ozerskoye, b. 1971
• 18 November 2017Theophan Danchenkov Bishop of Volzhsk and Sernur, b. 1975
• 20 November 2017Ignatii Suranov Bishop of Cherepovets and Belozersk, b. 1978
• 28 October 2018Ignatii Lukovich Bishop of Polatsk and Hlybokaye, b. 1970
• 6 October 2019Ambrose Shevtsov Bishop of Borisov and Maryina Horka, b. 1975
• 20 March 2022Evfimiii Moiseyev Bishop of Lukhovitsy, b. 1972
• 1 May 2022Ignatii Sidorenko Bishop of Aktobe and Kyzylorda, b. 1965
• 6 May 2022Klavdian Polyakov Bishop of Taldykorgan, b. 1971
• 2 June 2022George Voitovich Bishop of Pinsk and Luninets, b. 1964
• 21 September 2022Cyril Zinkovskii Bishop of Sergiev Posad and Dmitrov, b. 1969
• 6 November 2022Paul Belokrylov Bishop of Sarapul and Mozhga, b. 1962
• 27 November 2022Peter Pruteanu Bishop of Kaffa, b. 1979
• 30 April 2023Benjamin Rudyi Bishop of Talǵar, b. 1959

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata