Serapheim Savostyanov

Life

Born

15 December 1971

Monastic tonsure

3 January 1992

Ordained deacon

2 February 1992

Ordained priest

23 August 1992

Made archimandrite

19 April 2009

Elected bishop

22 October 2015

Consecrated bishop

4 December 2015

Sees

1. 4 December 2015 – 2019

   Bishop of Tarusa

   Vicar of Kaluga · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 2019 – present

   Bishop of Biisk and Belokurikha

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 4 December 2015 by:

• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Varsonofii Sudakov Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, b. 1955
• Clement Kapalin Metropolitan of Kaluga and Borovsk, b. 1949
• Maximilian Lazarenko Archbishop of Pesochenskii and Yukhnov, b. 1950
• Sergii Chashin Metropolitan of Singapore and Southeast Asia, b. 1974
• Feodosii Snigirov Metropolitan of Cherkasy and Kaniv, b. 1974
• Nikita Ananiev Metropolitan of Krasnoyarsk and Achinsk, b. 1969

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. Serapheim Savostyanov Bishop of Biisk and Belokurikha consecrated 4 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

• 18 July 2019Siluan Nikitin Bishop of Petergof, b. 1986
• 19 August 2020Joseph Korolyov Bishop of Mozhaisk, b. 1977

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata