Barnabas Safonov

Life

Born

21 February 1957

Monastic tonsure

28 February 1980

Ordained deacon

20 July 1980

Ordained priest

14 March 1982

Made archimandrite

10 January 1990

Elected bishop

6 October 2010

Consecrated bishop

14 November 2010

Made archbishop

6 May 2022

Retired

22 October 2026 (relieved of the diocese for health reasons)

Sees

1. 14 November 2010 – 5 October 2011

   Bishop of Pavlodar and Ust-Kamenogorsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 5 October 2011 – 6 May 2022

   Bishop of Pavlodar and Ekibastuz

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 6 May 2022 – 22 October 2026

   Archbishop of Pavlodar and Ekibastuz

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 22 October 2026 – present

   Former Archbishop of Pavlodar and Ekibastuz

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 14 November 2010 by:

• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Juvenal Poyarkov Former Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomenskoye, b. 1935
• Varsonofii Sudakov Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, b. 1955
• Alexander Mogilyov Metropolitan of Astana and Kazakhstan, b. 1957
• Prokl Khazov Metropolitan of Simbirsk and Melekess, 1943–2014
• Feognost Guzikov Metropolitan of Kashira, b. 1960
• Atanasije Jevtić Former Bishop of Zahumlje and Hercegovina, 1938–2021
• Savva Volkov Archbishop of Tiraspol and Dubăsari, b. 1958
• Daniel Dorovskikh Metropolitan of Kurgan and Belozersk, b. 1960
• Sergii Chashin Metropolitan of Singapore and Southeast Asia, b. 1974
• Lazar Gurkin Bishop of Narva and Prichudye, b. 1969
• Clement Rodaikin Bishop of Krasnoslobodsk and Temnikov, b. 1971

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. Barnabas Safonov Archbishop of Pavlodar and Ekibastuz consecrated 14 November 2010
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 4

• 23 January 2011Tikhon Dorovskikh Metropolitan of Oryol and Bolkhov, b. 1959
• 20 February 2011Sebastian Osokin Archbishop of Qarağandy and Şahtinsk, b. 1961
• 1 May 2022Ignatii Sidorenko Bishop of Aktobe and Kyzylorda, b. 1965
• 6 May 2022Klavdian Polyakov Bishop of Taldykorgan, b. 1971

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata