Alexander Mogilyov

Life

Born

18 May 1957

Ordained deacon

1 August 1983

Ordained priest

2 August 1983

Elected bishop

13 September 1989

Monastic tonsure

21 September 1989

Made archimandrite

21 September 1989

Consecrated bishop

27 September 1989

Made archbishop

25 February 1994

Made metropolitan

28 July 2010

Sees

1. 27 September 1989 – 25 February 1994

   Bishop of Kostroma and Halych

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 25 February 1994 – 5 March 2010

   Archbishop of Kostroma and Halych

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 5 March 2010 – 26 July 2010

   Archbishop of Astana

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 26 July 2010 – 28 July 2010

   Archbishop of Astana and Kazakhstan

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 28 July 2010 – present

   Metropolitan of Astana and Kazakhstan

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 25 August 2020 – present

   Locum tenens of Kostanay and Rudny

   Patriarchate of Moscow

7. 28 January 2025 – 20 March 2025

   Locum tenens of Kökşetau and Akmola

   Patriarchate of Moscow

8. 22 October 2026 – present

   Locum tenens of Pavlodar and Ekibastuz

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 27 September 1989 by:

• Vladimir Sabodan Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, 1935–2014
• Valentine Mishchuk Metropolitan of Orenburg and Buzuluk, b. 1940
• Isidore Kirichenko Metropolitan of Ekaterinodar and Kuban, 1941–2020
• Khrisanf Chepil Metropolitan of Kirov and Sloboda, 1937–2011
• Nephon Saykali Metropolitan of Philippopolis (Chehba), cons. 1988
• Victor Oleinik Metropolitan of Tver and Kashin, b. 1940
• Sergii Poletkin Metropolitan of Samara and Tolyattinsk, b. 1951

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. Alexander Mogilyov Metropolitan of Astana and Kazakhstan consecrated 27 September 1989
2. Victor Oleinik Metropolitan of Tver and Kashin, b. 1940 consecrated 4 December 1988
3. Leontii Bondar Metropolitan of Orenburg and Buzuluk, 1913–1999 consecrated 10 August 1956
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 29

• 14 August 1990Manuel Pavlov Metropolitan of Petrozavodsk and Karelia, 1950–2015
• 3 April 1993Michael Raskovalov Bishop of Kurgan and Shadrinsk, 1953–2008
• 4 April 1993John Popov Metropolitan of Belgorod and Staryi Oskol, b. 1960
• 16 April 1994Eugene Reshetnikov Archbishop of Vereya, b. 1957
• 4 February 1996Tikhon Stepanov Bishop of Arkhangelsk and Kholmogory, 1963–2010
• 14 January 2002Hilarion Alfeyev Metropolitan of Budapest and Hungary, b. 1966
• 19 August 2003Longin Korchagin Metropolitan of Simbirsk and Novospasskoye, b. 1961
• 15 February 2007Sergii Chashin Metropolitan of Singapore and Southeast Asia, b. 1974
• 21 March 2010Benjamin Tupeko Bishop of Borisov and Maryina Horka, b. 1968
• 5 September 2010Nestor Sirotenko Metropolitan of Stupino, b. 1974
• 10 October 2010Gennadii Gogolev Bishop of Qaskeleñ, b. 1967
• 14 November 2010Barnabas Safonov Archbishop of Pavlodar and Ekibastuz, b. 1957
• 26 December 2010Nikodim Vulpe Archbishop of Edineţ and Briceni, b. 1956
• 20 February 2011Sebastian Osokin Archbishop of Qarağandy and Şahtinsk, b. 1961
• 12 June 2011Paul Fokin Metropolitan of Khanty-Mansiysk and Surgut, b. 1956
• 19 December 2011Pakhomii Bruskov Bishop of Borovichi and Pestovo, b. 1976
• 25 February 2012Iakov Tislenko Bishop of Naryan-Mar and Mezen, b. 1960
• 26 February 2012Amfilokhii Bondarenko Archbishop of Ust-Kamenogorsk and Semipalatinsk, b. 1969
• 25 November 2012Filaret Gavrin Bishop of Chistopol and Nizhnekamsk, b. 1973
• 27 January 2013Varlaam Ponomaryov Archbishop of Makhachkala and Derbent, b. 1974
• 28 April 2013Ferapont Kashin Metropolitan of Kostroma and Nerekhta, b. 1969
• 23 October 2013Serapion Kolosnitsin Archbishop of Kökşetau and Akmola, 1964–2025
• 8 June 2014Vladimir Mikheikin Archbishop of Petropavl and Bulayevo, b. 1968
• 24 September 2017Atanazy Nos Bishop of Łódź and Poznań, b. 1968
• 25 September 2017Paul Tokajuk Bishop of Hajnówka, b. 1978
• 1 May 2022Ignatii Sidorenko Bishop of Aktobe and Kyzylorda, b. 1965
• 6 May 2022Klavdian Polyakov Bishop of Taldykorgan, b. 1971
• 2 December 2022Khrisanf Konoplyov Bishop of Şymkent and Türkıstan, b. 1962
• 30 April 2023Benjamin Rudyi Bishop of Talǵar, b. 1959

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata