Feodosii Gazhu

Life

Born

18 July 1970

Monastic tonsure

13 April 1995

Ordained deacon

29 April 1995

Ordained priest

13 April 1996

Elected bishop

6 October 2011 (Synod session of 5-6 октября 2011)

Made archimandrite

8 October 2011

Consecrated bishop

4 December 2011

Sees

1. 4 December 2011 – 25 July 2014

   Bishop of Bishkek and Kyrgyzstan

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 25 July 2014 – present

   Bishop of Isilkul and Russkaya Polyana

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 4 December 2011 by:

• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Vincent Morar Metropolitan of Tashkent and Uzbekistan, b. 1953
• Varsonofii Sudakov Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, b. 1955
• Vadim Lazebnyi Metropolitan of Yaroslavl and Rostov, b. 1954
• Cyril Nakonechnii Metropolitan of Kazan and Tatarstan, b. 1961
• Longin Korchagin Metropolitan of Simbirsk and Novospasskoye, b. 1961
• Alexander Agrikov Metropolitan of Bryansk and Sevsk, b. 1953
• Sergii Chashin Metropolitan of Singapore and Southeast Asia, b. 1974
• Cyril Pokrovskii Metropolitan of Stavropol and Nevinnomyssk, 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. Feodosii Gazhu Bishop of Isilkul and Russkaya Polyana consecrated 4 December 2011
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 2

• 1 August 2016Eugene Kulberg Metropolitan of Ekaterinburg and Verkhoturye, b. 1972
• 8 January 2019Zosima Balin Bishop of Magnitogorsk and Verkhneuralsk, b. 1975

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

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