Leo Tserpitskii

Life

Born

13 April 1946

Monastic tonsure

28 March 1971

Ordained deacon

7 April 1971

Ordained priest

20 April 1971

Made archimandrite

8 August 1978

Consecrated bishop

1 November 1987

Made archbishop

25 February 1995

Made metropolitan

8 January 2012

Sees

1. 1 November 1987 – 1990

   Bishop of Tashkent and Central Asia

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 1990 – 25 February 1995

   Bishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 25 February 1995 – 8 January 2012

   Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 8 January 2012 – present

   Metropolitan of Novgorod and Staraya Russa

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 2015

   Locum tenens of Petrozavodsk and Karelia

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 14 May 2026 – 17 July 2026

   Locum tenens of Borovichi and Pestovo

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 1 November 1987 by:

• Aleksii II Ridiger Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1929–2008
• Gedeon Dokukin Metropolitan of Stavropol and Vladikavkaz, 1929–2003
• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Simon Ishunin Archbishop of Brussels and Belgium, b. 1951
• Prokl Khazov Metropolitan of Simbirsk and Melekess, 1943–2014

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. Leo Tserpitskii Metropolitan of Novgorod and Staraya Russa consecrated 1 November 1987
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 11

• 21 July 1989Vladimir Cantarean Metropolitan of Chișinău and Moldova, b. 1952
• 23 July 1989Alexander Kudrjašovs Metropolitan of Riga and All Latvia, b. 1939
• 5 October 1989Arsenii Epifanov Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Zadonsk, b. 1955
• 14 August 1990Manuel Pavlov Metropolitan of Petrozavodsk and Karelia, 1950–2015
• 15 September 1990Cornelius Jakobs Metropolitan of Tallinn and All Estonia, 1924–2018
• 27 September 2006Marcel Vetrov Bishop of Tsarskoye Selo, 1952–2019
• 5 February 2012Ephrem Barbinyagra Bishop of Borovichi and Pestovo, b. 1941
• 9 July 2015Vsevolod Ponich Bishop of Urzhum and Omutninsk, b. 1961
• 24 April 2016John Rudenko Bishop of Shuya and Teikovo, b. 1966
• 3 May 2016Arsenii Perevalov Metropolitan of Zvenigorod, b. 1979
• 19 August 2017Feodorit Tikhonov Bishop of Venyov, b. 1980

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata