Nikon Fomin

Life

Born

7 January 1963

Ordained deacon

11 September 1985

Monastic tonsure

20 October 1985

Ordained priest

18 October 1990

Elected bishop

7 June 2012

Consecrated bishop

1 July 2012

Made metropolitan

18 July 2016

Sees

1. 1 July 2012 – 15 July 2016

   Bishop of Shuya and Teikovo

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 15 July 2016 – 18 July 2016

   Bishop of Astrakhan and Kamyzyak

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 18 July 2016 – present

   Metropolitan of Astrakhan and Kamyzyak

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 1 July 2012 by:

• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Hilarion Alfeyev Metropolitan of Budapest and Hungary, b. 1966
• Herman Moralin Metropolitan of Kursk and Rylsk, b. 1956
• Ambrose Polikopa Metropolitan of Chernihiv and Novhorod-Siverskyi, b. 1943
• Joseph Makedonov Metropolitan of Ivanovo-Voznesenskii and Vichuga, b. 1964
• Alexander Agrikov Metropolitan of Bryansk and Sevsk, b. 1953
• Stephen Neshcheret Archbishop of Homieĺ and Zhlobin, b. 1966
• Sergii Chashin Metropolitan of Singapore and Southeast Asia, b. 1974
• Panteleimon Shatov Bishop of Vereya, b. 1950
• Benjamin Likhomanov Bishop of Rybinsk and Romanov-Borisoglebsk, b. 1952
• Sebastian Osokin Archbishop of Qarağandy and Şahtinsk, b. 1961
• Artemii Snigur Metropolitan of Khabarovsk and Priamurskii, b. 1962
• Nicholas Chashin Archbishop of Salekhard and Novo-Urengoisk, b. 1972
• Gurii Fyodorov Bishop of Arseniev and Dalnegorsk, b. 1960
• Luke Volchkov Bishop of Birobidzhan and Kuldur, b. 1971
• Philip Novikov Metropolitan of Syktyvkar and Komi-Zyryanskii, b. 1973

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. Nikon Fomin Metropolitan of Astrakhan and Kamyzyak consecrated 1 July 2012
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 5

• 8 July 2012Hilarion Kaigorodtsev Bishop of Kineshma and Palekh, b. 1971
• 3 November 2013Tikhon Bobov Bishop of Ishim and Aromashevo, b. 1954
• 3 January 2016Matthew Kopylov Metropolitan of Pskov and Porkhov, b. 1979
• 24 April 2016John Rudenko Bishop of Shuya and Teikovo, b. 1966
• 2 December 2016Matthew Samknulov Bishop of Akhtubinsk and Yenotayevka, b. 1971

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata