Innocent Yakovlev

Life

Born

30 April 1947

Ordained deacon

28 March 1992

Ordained priest

19 April 1992

Monastic tonsure

13 April 1997

Made archimandrite

19 March 2007

Elected bishop

27 July 2011

Consecrated bishop

19 August 2011

Retired

27 December 2024

Sees

1. 19 August 2011 – 7 March 2018

   Bishop of Nizhny Tagil and Serov

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 7 March 2018 – 14 May 2018

   Bishop of Nizhny Tagil and Nevyansk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 14 May 2018 – 27 December 2024

   Bishop of Alexandrovsk and Yuriev-Polskii

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 27 December 2024 – present

   Former Bishop of Alexandrovsk and Yuriev-Polskii

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 19 August 2011 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
• Arsenii Epifanov Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Zadonsk, b. 1955
• Evlogii Smirnov Metropolitan of Vladimir and Suzdal, 1937–2020
• Paul Ponomaryov Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomna, b. 1952
• Eugene Reshetnikov Archbishop of Vereya, b. 1957
• Cyril Nakonechnii Metropolitan of Kazan and Tatarstan, b. 1961
• 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. Innocent Yakovlev Bishop of Alexandrovsk and Yuriev-Polskii consecrated 19 August 2011
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 5

• 2 May 2012Nil Sychev Bishop of Murom and Vyazniki, b. 1964
• 19 May 2013Diodor Isayev Bishop of Melekess and Cherdakly, b. 1976
• 25 January 2014Mefodii Kondratiev Bishop of Kamensk and Alapayevsk, b. 1957
• 1 August 2016Eugene Kulberg Metropolitan of Ekaterinburg and Verkhoturye, b. 1972
• 1 April 2018Aleksii Orlov Metropolitan of Chelyabinsk and Miass, b. 1974

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata