Sergii Bulatnikov

Life

Born

16 April 1950

Ordained deacon

14 April 1974

Ordained priest

21 April 1974

Monastic tonsure

13 November 1979

Elected bishop

29 May 2013

Consecrated bishop

13 June 2013

Retired

15 May 2025

Sees

1. 13 June 2013 – 25 December 2014

   Bishop of Klintsy and Trubchevsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 25 December 2014 – 15 May 2025

   Bishop of Velikie Luki and Nevel

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 15 May 2025 – present

   Former Bishop of Velikie Luki and Nevel

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 13 June 2013 by:

• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Juvenal Poyarkov Former Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomenskoye, b. 1935
• Varsonofii Sudakov Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, b. 1955
• Arsenii Epifanov Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Zadonsk, b. 1955
• Alexander Agrikov Metropolitan of Bryansk and Sevsk, b. 1953
• Ignatii Punin Bishop of Minusinsk and Kuraginsk, b. 1973
• Sergii Chashin Metropolitan of Singapore and Southeast Asia, b. 1974
• Tikhon Zaitsev Archbishop of Ruza, b. 1967
• Isidore Tupikin Metropolitan of Smolensk and Dorogobuzh, b. 1974

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. Sergii Bulatnikov Bishop of Velikie Luki and Nevel consecrated 13 June 2013
2. Alexander Agrikov Metropolitan of Bryansk and Sevsk, b. 1953 consecrated 2 September 2001
3. Herman Swaiko Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada, 1931–2022 consecrated 10 February 1973
4. Silvester Haruns Archbishop of Montréal and Canada, 1914–2000 consecrated 27 April 1952
5. Vladimir Tikhonitskii Metropolitan of Białystok, 1873–1959 consecrated 3 June 1907
6. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
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 1

• 2 July 2017Thomas Demchuk Bishop of Pokrovsk and Novouzensk, b. 1983

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata