Ephrem Prosyanok

Life

Born

27 June 1977

Monastic tonsure

26 March 2004

Ordained deacon

2 May 2004

Ordained priest

5 March 2006

Made archimandrite

30 October 2011

Elected bishop

28 December 2011 (Synod session of 27-28 December 2011 (for Bikin; elected for Nikolayevsk on 2011-10-06))

Consecrated bishop

28 January 2012

Made archbishop

4 December 2017

Retired

12 March 2024 (relieved of the diocese)

Sees

1. 28 January 2012 – 5 May 2015

   Bishop of Bikin

   Vicar of Khabarovsk · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 5 May 2015 – 4 December 2017

   Bishop of Birobidzhan and Kuldur

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 4 December 2017 – 12 March 2024

   Archbishop of Birobidzhan and Kuldur

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 12 March 2024 – present

   Former Archbishop of Birobidzhan and Kuldur

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 28 January 2012 by:

• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Varsonofii Sudakov Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, b. 1955
• Ignatii Pologrudov Metropolitan of Argentina and South America, b. 1956
• Arsenii Epifanov Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Zadonsk, b. 1955
• Arkadii Afonin Former Bishop of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk and the Kurile Islands, 1943–2021
• Sergii Chashin Metropolitan of Singapore and Southeast Asia, b. 1974
• Aristarkh Yatsurin Bishop of Vanino and Pereyaslav, b. 1965

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. Ephrem Prosyanok Archbishop of Birobidzhan and Kuldur consecrated 28 January 2012
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

• 29 January 2012Nicholas Ashimov Bishop of Amur and Chegdomyn, b. 1980
• 25 November 2012Filaret Gavrin Bishop of Chistopol and Nizhnekamsk, b. 1973
• 2 December 2015Paramon Golubka Bishop of Gorodets and Vetluga, b. 1977
• 24 July 2019Basil Kulakov Metropolitan of Ekaterinodar and Kuban, b. 1971

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata