Nicholas Modebadze

Life

Born

16 February 1960

Ordained deacon

28 August 1985

Ordained priest

13 September 1986

Consecrated bishop

1998 · Russian True Orthodox Church

Monastic tonsure

September 1998

Made metropolitan

2003

Consecrated bishop

29 May 2011 · ROCOR (Agafangel)

Sees

1. 1998

   Bishop of Poti and Mingrelia

   True Orthodox Church in Russia

2. 1998 – 2003

   Bishop of Poti and Mingrelia

   Russian True Orthodox Church (Metropolitan Ambrose Katamadze))

3. 2003

   Bishop of Poti and Mingrelia

   True Orthodox Church in Russia (Rafail)

4. 2003 – 2006

   Metropolitan of Iberia and the Black Sea

   True Orthodox Church in Russia (Rafail)

5. 2006 – 2007

   Metropolitan of Siberia and the Far East

   Supreme Ecclesiastical Administration of the Orthodox Russian Church

6. 2007 – 29 May 2011

   Metropolitan of Iberia and the Black Sea

   True Orthodox Church in Russia (Rafail)

7. 29 May 2011 – present

   Bishop of Poti

   ROCOR (Agafangel)

Consecration

Consecrated 1998 by:

• Sofronii Musienko Bishop of Saint Petersburg and Northern Russia, b. 1970
• Cyriil Kravets Bishop of Voronezh and Southern Russia, b. 1948
• Dionisii Alfyorov Former Bishop of Novgorod and Tver, b. 1961
• Nikon Iost Bishop of Ishim and Siberia, b. 1972
• Ambrose Katamadze Archbishop of Nikortsminda, 1941–2008
• Moses Khodzhava Bishop of Gaenati and Imeretia, cons. 1997
• Arsenii Kiselev Metropolitan of Kolomna and Mozhaisk, cons. 1995
• Raphael Prokopiev-Motovilov Archbishop of Moscow, Metropolitan of All Russia, b. 1947

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. Nicholas Modebadze Bishop of Poti consecrated 1998
2. Arsenii Kiselev Metropolitan of Kolomna and Mozhaisk, cons. 1995 consecrated 18 April 1995
3. Valentine Rusantsov Metropolitan of Suzdal and Vladimir, 1939–2012 consecrated 10 February 1991
4. Anthony Bartoshevich Archbishop of Geneva and Western Europe, 1910–1993 consecrated 5 May 1957
5. John Maximovich Archbishop of San Francisco and Western America, 1896–1966 consecrated 1934
6. Anthony Khrapovitsky Metropolitan of Kyiv and Halych, 1863–1936 consecrated 7 September 1897
7. Arsenii Bryantsev Archbishop of Kharkiv and Okhtyrka, 1839–1914 consecrated 17 May 1882
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

• 19 September 2004Paul Zinkevich Bishop of Volokolamsk, cons. 2004
• 21 November 2004Andrew Davidyan/Davidov Metropolitan of Pyatigorsk and the Northern Caucasus, b. 1960
• 28 January 2008Matthew Maistrenko Bishop of Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhya, b. 1940