Zosima Ostapenko

Life

Born

12 July 1950

Ordained deacon

13 December 1981

Ordained priest

27 December 1981

Monastic tonsure

21 August 1987

Made archimandrite

6 October 1995

Consecrated bishop

24 December 1995

Made archbishop

24 February 2006

Retired

24 July 2025

Died

25 September 2026

Sees

1. 24 December 1995 – 24 February 2006

   Bishop of Elista and Kalmykia

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 24 February 2006 – 22 March 2011

   Archbishop of Elista and Kalmykia

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 22 March 2011 – 26 December 2012

   Archbishop of Vladikavkaz

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 26 December 2012 – 3 June 2016

   Archbishop of Vladikavkaz and the Alans

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 3 June 2016 – 21 October 2016

   Former Archbishop of Vladikavkaz and the Alans

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 21 October 2016 – 24 July 2025

   Archbishop of Solikamsk and Chusovoi

   Patriarchate of Moscow

7. 24 July 2025 – 25 September 2026

   Former Archbishop of Solikamsk and Chusovoi

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 24 December 1995 by:

• Aleksii II Ridiger Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1929–2008
• Juvenal Poyarkov Former Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomenskoye, b. 1935
• Job Tyvonyuk Metropolitan of Chelyabinsk and Zlatoust, 1938–2020
• Sergii Fomin Metropolitan of Voronezh and Liski, b. 1949
• Arsenii Epifanov Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Zadonsk, b. 1955
• Innocent Vasiliev Metropolitan of Vilnius and Lithuania, b. 1947
• Jonah Karpukhin Archbishop of Astrakhan and Kamyzyak, 1941–2020
• Maximilian Lazarenko Archbishop of Pesochenskii and Yukhnov, b. 1950
• Eugene Reshetnikov Archbishop of Vereya, b. 1957
• Aleksii Frolov Archbishop of Kostroma and Halych, 1947–2013

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. Zosima Ostapenko Archbishop of Solikamsk and Chusovoi consecrated 24 December 1995
2. Aleksii II Ridiger Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1929–2008 consecrated 3 September 1961
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

• 24 September 2006Feofilakt Kuryanov Archbishop of Pyatigorsk and Cherkessk, b. 1974
• 7 December 2010Innocent Erokhin Bishop of Balakovo and Nikolayevskii, b. 1967
• 3 April 2011Zinovii Korzinkin Metropolitan of Saransk and Mordovia, b. 1948
• 13 December 2012Gedeon Gubka Bishop of Vyksa and Pavlovsk, b. 1962
• 27 January 2013Varlaam Ponomaryov Archbishop of Makhachkala and Derbent, b. 1974
• 25 February 2014Stephen Kavtarashvili Bishop of Tikhoretsk and Korenovsk, b. 1971

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata