Theodore Kazanov

Life

Born

10 July 1973

Monastic tonsure

30 June 2000

Ordained deacon

2 July 2000

Ordained priest

16 July 2000

Elected bishop

24 December 2015

Made archimandrite

25 December 2015

Consecrated bishop

27 December 2015

Made metropolitan

3 January 2019

Sees

1. 27 December 2015 – 2018

   Bishop of Pereslavl and Uglich

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 2018 – 3 January 2019

   Bishop of Volgograd and Kamyshin

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 3 January 2019 – present

   Metropolitan of Volgograd and Kamyshin

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 27 December 2015 by:

• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Varsonofii Sudakov Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, b. 1955
• Panteleimon Dolganov Metropolitan of Yaroslavl and Rostov, b. 1941
• Cyril Nakonechnii Metropolitan of Kazan and Tatarstan, b. 1961
• Feofilakt Moiseyev Former Bishop of Mytishchi, 1949–2023
• Benjamin Likhomanov Bishop of Rybinsk and Romanov-Borisoglebsk, b. 1952
• 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. Theodore Kazanov Metropolitan of Volgograd and Kamyshin consecrated 27 December 2015
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 2

• 1 August 2016Eugene Kulberg Metropolitan of Ekaterinburg and Verkhoturye, b. 1972
• 20 November 2017Ignatii Suranov Bishop of Cherepovets and Belozersk, b. 1978

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata