Nikon Vasyukov

Life

Born

1 October 1950

Ordained deacon

26 June 1983

Ordained priest

21 September 1983

Monastic tonsure

13 April 1984

Elected bishop

26 June 1990

Consecrated bishop

26 August 1990

Made archbishop

23 February 2001

Made metropolitan

8 January 2012

Retired

30 October 2025

Sees

1. 26 August 1990 – 23 February 2001

   Bishop of Ufa and Sterlitamak

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 23 February 2001 – 8 January 2012

   Archbishop of Ufa and Sterlitamak

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 8 January 2012 – 24 March 2022

   Metropolitan of Ufa and Sterlitamak

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 30 May 2019 – 1 March 2024

   Locum tenens of Neftekamsk and Belebei

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 24 March 2022 – 30 October 2025

   Metropolitan of Ufa and Bashkiria

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 30 October 2025 – present

   Former Metropolitan of Ufa and Bashkiria

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 26 August 1990 by:

• Aleksii II Ridiger Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1929–2008

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 Vasyukov Metropolitan of Ufa and Bashkiria consecrated 26 August 1990
2. Aleksii II Ridiger Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1929–2008 consecrated 3 September 1961
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 6

• 1 August 2010Iliya Bykov Bishop of Balakhna, b. 1954
• 27 September 2011Nicholas Subbotin Bishop of Salavat and Kumertau, b. 1973
• 4 March 2012Ambrose Munteanu Bishop of Bogorodsk, b. 1973
• 21 May 2015Sergii Zyatkov Bishop of Novorossiisk and Gelendzhik, b. 1967
• 21 August 2017Iliya Kazantsev Bishop of Birsk and Beloretsk, 1970–2018
• 2 December 2018Spyridon Morozov Bishop of Birsk and Beloretsk, b. 1987

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata