Longin Korchagin

Life

Born

31 July 1961

Monastic tonsure

21 July 1986

Ordained deacon

29 August 1986

Ordained priest

7 June 1988

Made archimandrite

15 April 2000

Consecrated bishop

19 August 2003

Made metropolitan

8 October 2011

Sees

1. 19 August 2003 – 8 October 2011

   Bishop of Saratov and Volsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 8 October 2011 – 25 August 2020

   Metropolitan of Saratov and Volsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 25 August 2020 – present

   Metropolitan of Simbirsk and Novospasskoye

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 30 October 2025 – 2 July 2026

   Locum tenens of Barysh and Inza

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 19 August 2003 by:

• Aleksii II Ridiger Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1929–2008
• Juvenal Poyarkov Former Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomenskoye, b. 1935
• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Sergii Fomin Metropolitan of Voronezh and Liski, b. 1949
• Basil Kolokas Metropolitan of Elassona, 1953–2014
• Nathaniel Kalaidzhiev Metropolitan of Nevrokop, 1952–2013
• Onufrii Berezovskii Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, b. 1944
• Aleksii Kutepov Metropolitan of Tula and Yefremov, b. 1953
• Victor Oleinik Metropolitan of Tver and Kashin, b. 1940
• Alexander Mogilyov Metropolitan of Astana and Kazakhstan, b. 1957
• Arsenii Epifanov Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Zadonsk, b. 1955
• Constantine Goryanov Metropolitan of Petrozavodsk and Karelia, b. 1951
• Eugene Reshetnikov Archbishop of Vereya, b. 1957
• Cyril Nakonechnii Metropolitan of Kazan and Tatarstan, b. 1961
• Filaret Karagodin Archbishop of Penza and Kuznetsy, b. 1946
• Rostislav Devyatov Metropolitan of Tomsk and Asino, b. 1963
• Aleksii Frolov Archbishop of Kostroma and Halych, 1947–2013
• Justinian Ovchinnikov Archbishop of Elista and Kalmykia, b. 1961
• Savva Volkov Archbishop of Tiraspol and Dubăsari, b. 1958
• Alexander Ishchein Archbishop of Baku and Azerbaijan, 1952–2021
• Feofan Ashurkov Metropolitan of Kazan and Tatarstan, 1947–2020
• Alexander Agrikov Metropolitan of Bryansk and Sevsk, b. 1953
• Feognost Guzikov Metropolitan of Kashira, b. 1960
• Feofilakt Moiseyev Former Bishop of Mytishchi, 1949–2023
• George Danilov Metropolitan of Nizhny Novgorod and Arzamas, b. 1964
• Benjamin Zaritskii Metropolitan of Orenburg and Saraktash, 1953–2023

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. Longin Korchagin Metropolitan of Simbirsk and Novospasskoye consecrated 19 August 2003
2. Alexander Agrikov Metropolitan of Bryansk and Sevsk, b. 1953 consecrated 2 September 2001
3. Herman Swaiko Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada, 1931–2022 consecrated 10 February 1973
4. Silvester Haruns Archbishop of Montréal and Canada, 1914–2000 consecrated 27 April 1952
5. Vladimir Tikhonitskii Metropolitan of Białystok, 1873–1959 consecrated 3 June 1907
6. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
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

• 14 January 2004Mark Golovkov Metropolitan of Korsun and Western Europe, b. 1964
• 26 March 2005Ambrose Ermakov Metropolitan of Tver and Kashin, b. 1970
• 10 June 2007Irinei Semko Metropolitan of Nizhyn and Pryluky, 1963–2017
• 2 December 2009Clement Rodaikin Bishop of Krasnoslobodsk and Temnikov, b. 1971
• 1 August 2010Iliya Bykov Bishop of Balakhna, b. 1954
• 3 April 2011Zinovii Korzinkin Metropolitan of Saransk and Mordovia, b. 1948
• 4 December 2011Feodosii Gazhu Bishop of Isilkul and Russkaya Polyana, b. 1970
• 17 December 2011Tarasii Vladimirov Bishop of Balashov and Rtishchevo, b. 1974
• 19 December 2011Pakhomii Bruskov Bishop of Borovichi and Pestovo, b. 1976
• 31 August 2014Victor Sergeyev Bishop of Glazov and Igra, b. 1954
• 21 May 2015Sergii Zyatkov Bishop of Novorossiisk and Gelendzhik, b. 1967
• 24 October 2015Tikhon Shevkunov Metropolitan of Simferopol and the Crimea, b. 1958
• 1 August 2016Eugene Kulberg Metropolitan of Ekaterinburg and Verkhoturye, b. 1972

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata