Nikifor Khoteyev

Life

Born

14 August 1975

Monastic tonsure

21 February 2007

Ordained deacon

24 February 2007

Ordained priest

4 March 2007

Elected bishop

15 March 2012

Made archimandrite

18 March 2012

Consecrated bishop

1 April 2012

Retired

24 July 2025

Sees

1. 1 April 2012 – 24 July 2025

   Bishop of Otradny and Pokhvistnevo

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 24 July 2025 – present

   Former Bishop of Otradny and Pokhvistnevo

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 1 April 2012 by:

• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Varsonofii Sudakov Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, b. 1955
• Hilarion Alfeyev Metropolitan of Budapest and Hungary, b. 1966
• Herman Timofeyev Metropolitan of Volgograd, b. 1937
• Sergii Poletkin Metropolitan of Samara and Tolyattinsk, b. 1951
• Arsenii Epifanov Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Zadonsk, b. 1955
• Eugene Reshetnikov Archbishop of Vereya, b. 1957
• Sergii Chashin Metropolitan of Singapore and Southeast Asia, b. 1974
• Elisei Fomkin Bishop of Uryupinsk and Novoanninskii, b. 1963

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. Nikifor Khoteyev Bishop of Otradny and Pokhvistnevo consecrated 1 April 2012
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

• 6 December 2015Thomas Mosolov Archbishop of Odintsovo and Krasnogorsk, b. 1978
• 12 September 2019Leontii Kozlov Metropolitan of Voronezh and Liski, b. 1970

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata