Irinei Tafunya

Life

Born

30 May 1971

Monastic tonsure

13 April 1995

Ordained deacon

28 May 1995

Ordained priest

10 September 1995

Elected bishop

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

Made archimandrite

27 October 2011

Consecrated bishop

22 November 2011

Sees

1. 22 November 2011 – present

   Bishop of Orsk and Gai

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 22 November 2011 by:

• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Juvenal Poyarkov Former Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomenskoye, b. 1935
• Vladimir Cantarean Metropolitan of Chișinău and Moldova, b. 1952
• Varsonofii Sudakov Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, b. 1955
• Valentine Mishchuk Metropolitan of Orenburg and Buzuluk, b. 1940
• Arsenii Epifanov Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Zadonsk, b. 1955
• Sergii Chashin Metropolitan of Singapore and Southeast Asia, 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. Irinei Tafunya Bishop of Orsk and Gai consecrated 22 November 2011
2. Vladimir Cantarean Metropolitan of Chișinău and Moldova, b. 1952 consecrated 21 July 1989
3. Leontii Bondar Metropolitan of Orenburg and Buzuluk, 1913–1999 consecrated 10 August 1956
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 3

• 4 March 2012Ambrose Munteanu Bishop of Bogorodsk, b. 1973
• 25 March 2012Aleksii Antipov Bishop of Buzuluk and Sorochinsk, b. 1956
• 19 August 2014Paisii Yurkov Bishop of Zheleznogorsk and Lgov, b. 1970

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata