Vladimir Samokhin

Life

Born

18 November 1979

Ordained deacon

7 November 2004

Ordained priest

15 February 2005

Monastic tonsure

23 July 2011

Elected bishop

6 October 2011

Made archimandrite

9 October 2011

Consecrated bishop

2 December 2011

Made metropolitan

1 February 2015

Sees

1. 2 December 2011 – 30 May 2014

   Bishop of Skopin and Shatsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 30 May 2014 – 25 December 2014

   Bishop of Chita and Krasnokamensk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 25 December 2014 – 1 February 2015

   Bishop of Chita and Petrovsk-Zabaikal

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 1 February 2015 – 3 June 2016

   Metropolitan of Chita and Petrovsk-Zabaikal

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 3 June 2016 – 28 December 2018

   Metropolitan of Khabarovsk and Priamurskii

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 28 December 2018 – 24 October 2024

   Metropolitan of Vladivostok and Primorye

   Patriarchate of Moscow

7. 24 October 2024 – present

   Metropolitan of Donetsk and Mariupol

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 2 December 2011 by:

• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Varsonofii Sudakov Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, b. 1955
• Hilarion Alfeyev Metropolitan of Budapest and Hungary, b. 1966
• Paul Ponomaryov Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomna, b. 1952
• Arsenii Epifanov Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Zadonsk, b. 1955
• Constantine Goryanov Metropolitan of Petrozavodsk and Karelia, b. 1951
• Mark Golovkov Metropolitan of Korsun and Western Europe, b. 1964
• Alexander Agrikov Metropolitan of Bryansk and Sevsk, b. 1953
• Irinarkh Grezin Bishop of Ramenskoye, 1951–2024
• Sergii Chashin Metropolitan of Singapore and Southeast Asia, b. 1974
• Tikhon Zaitsev Archbishop of Ruza, b. 1967
• Savva Mikheyev Metropolitan of Vologda and Kirillov, b. 1980
• Dionisii Porubai Metropolitan of Omsk and Priirtyshye, b. 1975

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. Vladimir Samokhin Metropolitan of Donetsk and Mariupol consecrated 2 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 4

• 22 April 2012Barnabas Baranov Bishop of Karasuk and Ordynskoye, b. 1965
• 22 February 2015Dimitrii Eliseyev Metropolitan of Chita and Petrovsk-Zabaikal, b. 1961
• 30 October 2016Savvatii Perepelkin Bishop of Vanino and Pereyaslav, b. 1968
• 24 July 2019Basil Kulakov Metropolitan of Ekaterinodar and Kuban, b. 1971

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata