Hilarion Alfeyev

Life

Born

24 July 1966

Monastic tonsure

19 June 1987

Ordained deacon

21 June 1987

Ordained priest

19 August 1987

Elected bishop

27 December 2001

Consecrated bishop

14 January 2002

Made archbishop

20 April 2009

Made metropolitan

1 February 2010

Retired

27 December 2024

Sees

1. 14 January 2002 – 17 July 2002

   Bishop of Kerch

   Vicar of Sourozh · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 17 July 2002 – 7 May 2003

   Bishop of Podolsk

   Vicar of Moscow · Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 7 May 2003 – 31 March 2009

   Bishop of Vienna and Austria

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 31 March 2009 – 20 April 2009

   Bishop of Volokolamsk

   Vicar of the Patriarch of Moscow · Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 20 April 2009 – 1 February 2010

   Archbishop of Volokolamsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 1 February 2010 – 7 June 2022

   Metropolitan of Volokolamsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

7. 7 June 2022 – 27 December 2024

   Metropolitan of Budapest and Hungary

   Patriarchate of Moscow

8. 27 December 2024 – present

   Former Metropolitan of Budapest and Hungary

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 14 January 2002 by:

• Aleksii II Ridiger Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1929–2008
• Juvenal Poyarkov Former Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomenskoye, b. 1935
• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Pitirim Nechayev Metropolitan of Volokolamsk and Yuriev, 1926–2003
• Feofan Galinskii Archbishop of Berlin and Germany, 1954–2017
• Alexander Mogilyov Metropolitan of Astana and Kazakhstan, b. 1957
• Arsenii Epifanov Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Zadonsk, b. 1955
• Nephon Saykali Metropolitan of Philippopolis (Chehba), cons. 1988
• Basil Osborne Bishop of Amphipolis, b. 1938
• Aleksii Frolov Archbishop of Kostroma and Halych, 1947–2013
• Alexander Agrikov Metropolitan of Bryansk and Sevsk, b. 1953

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 10 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Hilarion Alfeyev Metropolitan of Budapest and Hungary consecrated 14 January 2002
2. Pitirim Nechayev Metropolitan of Volokolamsk and Yuriev, 1926–2003 consecrated 23 May 1963
3. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
4. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
5. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
6. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
7. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
8. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
9. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
10. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
11. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 44

• 20 January 2002Maksim Dmitriev Bishop of Yelets and Lebedyansk, b. 1961
• 7 July 2005Ignatii Punin Bishop of Minusinsk and Kuraginsk, b. 1973
• 26 November 2006Elisei Ganaba Archbishop of the Hague and the Netherlands, b. 1962
• 8 July 2007Siluan Manuilă Bishop of Hungary, b. 1972
• 26 April 2009Tikhon Zaitsev Archbishop of Ruza, b. 1967
• 28 May 2009Nazarii Lavrinenko Bishop of Kuznetsk and Nikolsk, b. 1952
• 21 July 2009Lazar Gurkin Bishop of Narva and Prichudye, b. 1969
• 2 December 2009Clement Rodaikin Bishop of Krasnoslobodsk and Temnikov, b. 1971
• 21 August 2010Panteleimon Shatov Bishop of Vereya, b. 1950
• 22 August 2010Benjamin Likhomanov Bishop of Rybinsk and Romanov-Borisoglebsk, b. 1952
• 5 September 2010Nestor Sirotenko Metropolitan of Stupino, b. 1974
• 26 December 2010Nikodim Vulpe Archbishop of Edineţ and Briceni, b. 1956
• 20 March 2011Elpidophoros Lambriniadis Archbishop of America, b. 1967
• 1 May 2011Herman Kamalov Bishop of Sochi and Tuapse, b. 1968
• 6 November 2011Gurii Fyodorov Bishop of Arseniev and Dalnegorsk, b. 1960
• 2 December 2011Vladimir Samokhin Metropolitan of Donetsk and Mariupol, b. 1979
• 25 February 2012Iakov Tislenko Bishop of Naryan-Mar and Mezen, b. 1960
• 4 March 2012Ambrose Munteanu Bishop of Bogorodsk, b. 1973
• 1 April 2012Nikifor Khoteyev Bishop of Otradny and Pokhvistnevo, b. 1975
• 22 April 2012Barnabas Baranov Bishop of Karasuk and Ordynskoye, b. 1965
• 22 May 2012Mstislav Dyachina Bishop of Tikhvin and Lodeinoye Pole, b. 1967
• 1 July 2012Nikon Fomin Metropolitan of Astrakhan and Kamyzyak, b. 1963
• 2 December 2012Theodore Belkov Bishop of Pokrovsk and Novouzensk, b. 1960
• 17 March 2013Isidore Tupikin Metropolitan of Smolensk and Dorogobuzh, b. 1974
• 17 June 2013Leonid Gorbachev Archbishop of Vladikavkaz and the Alans, b. 1968
• 6 November 2013John Kovalenko Bishop of Kalach-na-Donu and Pallasovka, b. 1970
• 1 August 2014John Roshchin Metropolitan of Vienna and Austria, b. 1974
• 22 February 2015Dimitrii Eliseyev Metropolitan of Chita and Petrovsk-Zabaikal, b. 1961
• 8 March 2015John Moșneguțu Archbishop of Soroca and Drochia, b. 1979
• 24 October 2015Tikhon Shevkunov Metropolitan of Simferopol and the Crimea, b. 1958
• 26 October 2015Anthony Sevryuk Metropolitan of Volokolamsk, b. 1984
• 27 March 2016John Sichyovskii Bishop of Jelgava, b. 1978
• 24 April 2016John Rudenko Bishop of Shuya and Teikovo, b. 1966
• 4 November 2016Silouan Şalari Bishop of Orhei, b. 1977
• 2 December 2016Matthew Samknulov Bishop of Akhtubinsk and Yenotayevka, b. 1971
• 5 February 2017Sergii Telikh Bishop of Maardu, b. 1966
• 15 February 2017Aleksii Eliseyev Bishop of Halych and Makariv, b. 1969
• 18 June 2017Aksii Lobov Archbishop of Podilsk and Lyubertsy, b. 1980
• 20 November 2017Ignatii Suranov Bishop of Cherepovets and Belozersk, b. 1978
• 3 June 2018Feoktist Igumnov Bishop of Pereslavl and Uglich, b. 1977
• 28 October 2018Ignatii Lukovich Bishop of Polatsk and Hlybokaye, b. 1970
• 11 July 2019Boris Baranov Bishop of Kostomuksha and Kem, b. 1964
• 12 September 2019Leontii Kozlov Metropolitan of Voronezh and Liski, b. 1970
• 23 August 2020Ambrose Fedukovich Bishop of Trakai, b. 1977

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata