Ephrem Barbinyagra

Life

Born

1 May 1941

Ordained deacon

1 January 1972

Ordained priest

27 February 1972

Monastic tonsure

12 February 1980

Made archimandrite

21 July 1981

Elected bishop

28 December 2011

Consecrated bishop

5 February 2012

Retired

14 May 2026

Sees

1. 5 February 2012 – 14 May 2026

   Bishop of Borovichi and Pestovo

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 14 May 2026 – present

   Former Bishop of Borovichi and Pestovo

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 5 February 2012 by:

• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Varsonofii Sudakov Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, b. 1955
• Leo Tserpitskii Metropolitan of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, b. 1946
• Sergii Chashin Metropolitan of Singapore and Southeast Asia, b. 1974
• Savva Mikheyev Metropolitan of Vologda and Kirillov, b. 1980

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. Ephrem Barbinyagra Bishop of Borovichi and Pestovo consecrated 5 February 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

• 13 April 2014Ignatii Buzin Bishop of Armavir and Labinsk, b. 1973
• 3 May 2016Arsenii Perevalov Metropolitan of Zvenigorod, b. 1979

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata