Matthew Kopylov

Life

Born

5 July 1979

Monastic tonsure

31 March 2006

Ordained deacon

17 June 2007

Ordained priest

5 April 2009

Elected bishop

24 December 2015

Made archimandrite

25 December 2015

Consecrated bishop

3 January 2016

Made archbishop

4 December 2017

Made metropolitan

1 August 2024

Sees

1. 3 January 2016 – 4 December 2017

   Bishop of Anadyr and Chukotka

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 4 December 2017 – 2018

   Archbishop of Anadyr and Chukotka

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 2018 – 10 April 2024

   Archbishop of Yegoriev

   Vicar of the Patriarch of Moscow · Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 10 April 2024 – 25 July 2024

   Archbishop of Pechory

   Vicar of Pskov · Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 25 July 2024 – 1 August 2024

   Archbishop of Pskov and Porkhov

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 1 August 2024 – present

   Metropolitan of Pskov and Porkhov

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 3 January 2016 by:

• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Arsenii Epifanov Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Zadonsk, b. 1955
• Artemii Snigur Metropolitan of Khabarovsk and Priamurskii, b. 1962
• Nicholas Chashin Archbishop of Salekhard and Novo-Urengoisk, b. 1972
• Savva Mikheyev Metropolitan of Vologda and Kirillov, b. 1980
• Luke Volchkov Bishop of Birobidzhan and Kuldur, b. 1971
• Nikon Fomin Metropolitan of Astrakhan and Kamyzyak, b. 1963

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. Matthew Kopylov Metropolitan of Pskov and Porkhov consecrated 3 January 2016
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 8

• 14 August 2016Theodore Malakhanov Archbishop of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskii, b. 1978
• 21 August 2018Ipatii Golubev Archbishop of Satpaev, b. 1966
• 2 December 2018Spyridon Morozov Bishop of Birsk and Beloretsk, b. 1987
• 6 January 2019Leonid Soldatov Bishop of Argentina and South America, b. 1984
• 8 January 2019Zosima Balin Bishop of Magnitogorsk and Verkhneuralsk, b. 1975
• 24 July 2019Basil Kulakov Metropolitan of Ekaterinodar and Kuban, b. 1971
• 2 December 2022Khrisanf Konoplyov Bishop of Şymkent and Türkıstan, b. 1962
• 25 December 2022Dionisii Shumilin Bishop of Rossosh and Ostrogozhsk, b. 1979

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata