Benjamin Likhomanov

Life

Born

2 October 1952

Ordained deacon

8 October 1978

Ordained priest

14 October 1978

Monastic tonsure

13 March 2003

Elected bishop

31 May 2010

Consecrated bishop

22 August 2010

Sees

1. 22 August 2010 – 15 March 2012

   Bishop of Rybinsk

   Vicar of Yaroslavl · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 15 March 2012 – 24 December 2015

   Bishop of Rybinsk and Uglich

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 24 December 2015 – 13 April 2021

   Bishop of Rybinsk and Danilov

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 13 April 2021 – present

   Bishop of Rybinsk and Romanov-Borisoglebsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 22 August 2010 by:

• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Vladimir Cantarean Metropolitan of Chișinău and Moldova, b. 1952
• Varsonofii Sudakov Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, b. 1955
• Hilarion Alfeyev Metropolitan of Budapest and Hungary, b. 1966
• Panteleimon Dolganov Metropolitan of Yaroslavl and Rostov, b. 1941
• Feognost Guzikov Metropolitan of Kashira, b. 1960
• Cyril Nakonechnii Metropolitan of Kazan and Tatarstan, b. 1961
• Savva Volkov Archbishop of Tiraspol and Dubăsari, b. 1958
• Tikhon Stepanov Bishop of Arkhangelsk and Kholmogory, 1963–2010
• Anatolii Botnari Archbishop of Cahul and Comrat, b. 1950
• Peter Musteață Archbishop of Ungheni and Nisporeni, b. 1967
• Sergii Chashin Metropolitan of Singapore and Southeast Asia, b. 1974
• Marcel Mihăescu Archbishop of Bălţi and Făleşti, b. 1959
• Tikhon Zaitsev Archbishop of Ruza, b. 1967
• Panteleimon Shatov Bishop of Vereya, b. 1950

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. Benjamin Likhomanov Bishop of Rybinsk and Romanov-Borisoglebsk consecrated 22 August 2010
2. Vladimir Cantarean Metropolitan of Chișinău and Moldova, b. 1952 consecrated 21 July 1989
3. Leontii Bondar Metropolitan of Orenburg and Buzuluk, 1913–1999 consecrated 10 August 1956
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 13

• 17 April 2011Nicholas Chashin Archbishop of Salekhard and Novo-Urengoisk, b. 1972
• 11 July 2011Savva Mikheyev Metropolitan of Vologda and Kirillov, b. 1980
• 22 April 2012Barnabas Baranov Bishop of Karasuk and Ordynskoye, b. 1965
• 1 July 2012Nikon Fomin Metropolitan of Astrakhan and Kamyzyak, b. 1963
• 16 March 2014Gregory Petrov Metropolitan of Voskresensk, b. 1974
• 9 July 2015Vsevolod Ponich Bishop of Urzhum and Omutninsk, b. 1961
• 27 December 2015Theodore Kazanov Metropolitan of Volgograd and Kamyshin, b. 1973
• 24 April 2016John Rudenko Bishop of Shuya and Teikovo, b. 1966
• 1 August 2016Eugene Kulberg Metropolitan of Ekaterinburg and Verkhoturye, b. 1972
• 30 October 2016Savvatii Perepelkin Bishop of Vanino and Pereyaslav, b. 1968
• 2 December 2016Matthew Samknulov Bishop of Akhtubinsk and Yenotayevka, b. 1971
• 11 July 2019Boris Baranov Bishop of Kostomuksha and Kem, b. 1964
• 30 April 2023Benjamin Rudyi Bishop of Talǵar, b. 1959

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata