Benjamin Pushkar

Life

Born

8 November 1938

Ordained deacon

1988

Ordained priest

1988

Elected bishop

12 August 1992

Monastic tonsure

13 September 1992

Made archimandrite

20 September 1992

Consecrated bishop

21 September 1992

Made archbishop

25 February 2003

Made metropolitan

8 October 2011

Retired

28 December 2018

Sees

1. 21 September 1992 – 25 February 2003

   Bishop of Vladivostok and Primorye

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 25 February 2003 – 8 October 2011

   Archbishop of Vladivostok and Primorye

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 8 October 2011 – 28 December 2018

   Metropolitan of Vladivostok and Primorye

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 28 December 2018 – present

   Former Metropolitan of Vladivostok and Primorye

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 21 September 1992 by:

• Aleksii II Ridiger Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1929–2008
• Juvenal Poyarkov Former Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomenskoye, b. 1935
• Pitirim Nechayev Metropolitan of Volokolamsk and Yuriev, 1926–2003
• Sergii Fomin Metropolitan of Voronezh and Liski, b. 1949
• Arsenii Epifanov Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Zadonsk, b. 1955
• Filaret Karagodin Archbishop of Penza and Kuznetsy, b. 1946
• Victor Pyankov Bishop of Podilsk, b. 1944

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. Benjamin Pushkar Former Metropolitan of Vladivostok and Primorye consecrated 21 September 1992
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 8

• 2 September 2001Alexander Agrikov Metropolitan of Bryansk and Sevsk, b. 1953
• 15 February 2007Sergii Chashin Metropolitan of Singapore and Southeast Asia, b. 1974
• 28 May 2009Nazarii Lavrinenko Bishop of Kuznetsk and Nikolsk, b. 1952
• 7 December 2010Innocent Erokhin Bishop of Balakovo and Nikolayevskii, b. 1967
• 17 April 2011Nicholas Chashin Archbishop of Salekhard and Novo-Urengoisk, b. 1972
• 1 September 2011Nicholas Dutka Bishop of Nakhodka and Preobrazhensk, b. 1966
• 6 November 2011Gurii Fyodorov Bishop of Arseniev and Dalnegorsk, b. 1960
• 25 November 2012Filaret Gavrin Bishop of Chistopol and Nizhnekamsk, b. 1973

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata