Didim Nesterov

Life

Born

1 February 1944

Monastic tonsure

1991

Consecrated bishop

30 June 1998

Made archbishop

1999

Retired

2005

Sees

1. 30 June 1998 – 1999

   Bishop of Saratov

   Russian True Orthodox Church (Amvrosii)

2. 1999 – date unknown

   Archbishop of Vyborg

   Russian True Orthodox Church (Amvrosii)

3. date unknown – 2005

   Archbishop of Tikhvin

   Russian True Orthodox Church (Amvrosii)

4. 2005 – 2008

   Former Archbishop of Tikhvin

   Russian True Orthodox Church (Amvrosii)

5. 2008 – present

   Archbishop of Saint Petersburg

   Russian True Orthodox Church (Amvrosii)

Consecration

Consecrated 30 June 1998 by:

• Raphael Prokopiev-Motovilov Archbishop of Moscow, Metropolitan of All Russia, b. 1947
• Alexander Mironov Metropolitan of Kazan
• Sergii Moiseyenko Metropolitan of Mesembria, b. 1958

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 15 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Didim Nesterov Archbishop of Saint Petersburg consecrated 30 June 1998
2. Raphael Prokopiev-Motovilov Archbishop of Moscow, Metropolitan of All Russia, b. 1947 consecrated 1996
3. Stephen Linitskii Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Mozhaisk, b. 1934 consecrated 17 December 1996
4. John Modzalevskii Archbishop of Uman, b. 1970 consecrated 17 June 1996
5. Roman Blashchuk/Balashchuk Metropolitan of Vinnytsya and Bratslav, b. 1953 consecrated 22 May 1990
6. John Bodnarchuk Metropolitan of Lutsk and Volyn, 1929–1994 consecrated 23 October 1977
7. Nicholas Yurik Metropolitan of Lviv and Ternopil, 1910–1984 consecrated 31 October 1965
8. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
9. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
10. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
11. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
12. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
13. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
14. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
15. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
16. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 5

• 22 November 1998Vyacheslav Lisovoi Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1966–2011
• 23 January 1999Philip Filipchenko Bishop of Nizhny Novgorod, cons. 1999
• 16 January 2000Benedict Patriarch of the Great City of Moscow, All Orthodox Christians and Primate of the New Lands, b. 1975
• 2003Nikodim Kolesov Archbishop of Saint Petersburg and Novgorod, b. 1955
• July 2009Aleksii Dyatlov Archbishop of Ulan-Ude and Zabaikal, b. 1976