Alexander Zaitsev

Life

Born

13 May 1969

Monastic tonsure

2000

Ordained deacon

28 August 2000

Ordained priest

4 March 2001

Elected bishop

9 March 2017

Made archimandrite

12 March 2017

Consecrated bishop

30 April 2017

Sees

1. 30 April 2017 – present

   Bishop of Plesetsk and Kargopol

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 30 April 2017 by:

• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Varsonofii Sudakov Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, b. 1955
• Daniel Dorovskikh Metropolitan of Kurgan and Belozersk, b. 1960
• Ambrose Ermakov Metropolitan of Tver and Kashin, b. 1970
• Sergii Chashin Metropolitan of Singapore and Southeast Asia, b. 1974
• Ignatii Punin Bishop of Minusinsk and Kuraginsk, b. 1973
• Marcel Vetrov Bishop of Tsarskoye Selo, 1952–2019
• Nazarii Lavrinenko Bishop of Kuznetsk and Nikolsk, b. 1952
• Iakov Tislenko Bishop of Naryan-Mar and Mezen, b. 1960
• Mstislav Dyachina Bishop of Tikhvin and Lodeinoye Pole, b. 1967
• Basil Danilov Bishop of Kotlas and Velsk, b. 1956
• Mitrofan Osyak Bishop of Gatchina and Luga, b. 1972

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. Alexander Zaitsev Bishop of Plesetsk and Kargopol consecrated 30 April 2017
2. Marcel Vetrov Bishop of Tsarskoye Selo, 1952–2019 consecrated 27 September 2006
3. Vladimir Kotlyarov Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1929–2022 consecrated 30 December 1962
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 1

• 21 August 2017Iliya Kazantsev Bishop of Birsk and Beloretsk, 1970–2018

Sources

Also in: Wikidata