Nil Sychev

Life

Born

19 April 1964

Monastic tonsure

24 June 1986

Ordained deacon

17 July 1986

Ordained priest

19 August 1986

Made archimandrite

8 September 1988

Elected bishop

16 March 2012

Consecrated bishop

2 May 2012

Sees

1. 2 May 2012 – 16 July 2013

   Bishop of Murom

   Vicar of Vladimir · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 16 July 2013 – present

   Bishop of Murom and Vyazniki

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 2 May 2012 by:

• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Varsonofii Sudakov Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, b. 1955
• Aleksii Kutepov Metropolitan of Tula and Yefremov, b. 1953
• Cyril Nakonechnii Metropolitan of Kazan and Tatarstan, b. 1961
• Evlogii Smirnov Metropolitan of Vladimir and Suzdal, 1937–2020
• Herman Moralin Metropolitan of Kursk and Rylsk, b. 1956
• Sergii Chashin Metropolitan of Singapore and Southeast Asia, b. 1974
• Marcel Mihăescu Archbishop of Bălţi and Făleşti, b. 1959
• Innocent Yakovlev Bishop of Alexandrovsk and Yuriev-Polskii, b. 1947

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. Nil Sychev Bishop of Murom and Vyazniki consecrated 2 May 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 1

• 1 August 2016Eugene Kulberg Metropolitan of Ekaterinburg and Verkhoturye, b. 1972

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata