Benedict

Life

Born

10 December 1975

Consecrated bishop

16 January 2000

Made archbishop

25 June 2001

Became patriarch

5 September 2010

Sees

1. 16 January 2000 – 25 June 2001

   Bishop of Tsaritsyn

   Russian Orthodox Catholic (True Orthodox Catacomb) Church

2. 25 June 2001 – 2002

   Archbishop of Tsaritsyn

   Russian Orthodox Catholic (True Orthodox Catacomb) Church

3. 2002 – 2004

   Archbishop

   Russian Orthodox Catholic (True Orthodox Catacomb) Church

4. 2004 – 5 September 2010

   Ukrainian Exarch of the Orthodox Russian Church of Metropolitan Rafail (Prokopiev)

   Orthodox Russian Church of Metropolitan Rafail (Prokopiev)

5. 5 September 2010 – 2015

   Patriarch of the Great City of Moscow

   Patriarchate of the Russian True Orthodox Catacomb Church

6. 2015 – 2016

   Former Patriarch of the Great City of Moscow

   Patriarchate of the Russian True Orthodox Catacomb Church

7. 2016 – present

   Schemahierarch-arkhont

   Russian Orthodox Catholic (True Orthodox Catacomb) Church

Consecration

Consecrated 16 January 2000 by:

• Stephen Linitskii Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Mozhaisk, b. 1934
• Kiriak Temertsidi/Timirtsidi Metropolitan of the Southern Russian Autonomous Metropolitical Region, b. 1942
• Didim Nesterov Archbishop of Saint Petersburg, b. 1944

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 14 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Benedict Patriarch of the Great City of Moscow, All Orthodox Christians and Primate of the New Lands consecrated 16 January 2000
2. Stephen Linitskii Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Mozhaisk, b. 1934 consecrated 17 December 1996
3. John Modzalevskii Archbishop of Uman, b. 1970 consecrated 17 June 1996
4. Roman Blashchuk/Balashchuk Metropolitan of Vinnytsya and Bratslav, b. 1953 consecrated 22 May 1990
5. John Bodnarchuk Metropolitan of Lutsk and Volyn, 1929–1994 consecrated 23 October 1977
6. Nicholas Yurik Metropolitan of Lviv and Ternopil, 1910–1984 consecrated 31 October 1965
7. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
8. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
9. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
10. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
11. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
12. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
13. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
14. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
15. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735