Leonid Gorbachev

Life

Born

26 October 1968

Ordained deacon

8 April 1990

Monastic tonsure

18 June 1990

Ordained priest

8 October 1990

Made archimandrite

11 April 2010

Elected bishop

29 May 2013

Consecrated bishop

17 June 2013

Made archbishop

4 December 2017

Made metropolitan

7 January 2022

Retired

27 December 2023

Sees

1. 17 June 2013 – 3 June 2016

   Bishop of Argentina and South America

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 3 June 2016 – 4 December 2017

   Bishop of Vladikavkaz and the Alans

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 4 December 2017 – 23 September 2021

   Archbishop of Vladikavkaz and the Alans

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 23 September 2021 – 15 October 2021

   Archbishop of Klin

   Vicar of Moscow · Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 15 October 2021 – 29 December 2021

   Archbishop of Yerevan and Armenia

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 29 December 2021 – 7 January 2022

   Archbishop of Klin

   Exarch of Africa · Patriarchate of Moscow

7. 7 January 2022 – 27 December 2023

   Metropolitan of Klin

   Exarch of Africa · Patriarchate of Moscow

8. 27 December 2023 – present

   Former Metropolitan of Klin

   Exarch of Africa · Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 17 June 2013 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
• Arsenii Epifanov Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Zadonsk, b. 1955
• Mark Golovkov Metropolitan of Korsun and Western Europe, b. 1964
• Sergii Chashin Metropolitan of Singapore and Southeast Asia, b. 1974
• Tikhon Zaitsev Archbishop of Ruza, b. 1967

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. Leonid Gorbachev Archbishop of Vladikavkaz and the Alans consecrated 17 June 2013
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 2

• 12 September 2019Leontii Kozlov Metropolitan of Voronezh and Liski, b. 1970
• 14 October 2021Gerasim Shevtsov Archbishop of Vladikavkaz and the Alans, b. 1971

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata