Paul Grigoriev

Life

Born

30 June 1974

Monastic tonsure

10 July 1998

Ordained deacon

12 September 1998

Ordained priest

26 December 1998

Elected bishop

24 December 2015

Made archimandrite

25 December 2015

Consecrated bishop

8 January 2016

Made metropolitan

2 December 2024

Sees

1. 8 January 2016 – 28 December 2018

   Bishop of Kolyvan

   Vicar of Novosibirsk · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 28 December 2018 – 24 October 2024

   Bishop of Yeisk and Timashyovsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 30 August 2019 – 24 October 2024

   Locum tenens of Dushanbe and Tajikistan

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 24 October 2024 – 2 December 2024

   Bishop of Vladivostok and Primorye

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 2 December 2024 – present

   Metropolitan of Vladivostok and Primorye

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 8 January 2016 by:

• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Arsenii Epifanov Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Zadonsk, b. 1955
• Tikhon Emelyanov Metropolitan of Vladimir and Suzdal, b. 1948
• Sergii Chashin Metropolitan of Singapore and Southeast Asia, b. 1974
• Luke Volchkov Bishop of Birobidzhan and Kuldur, b. 1971
• Philip Novikov Metropolitan of Syktyvkar and Komi-Zyryanskii, b. 1973
• Feodosii Chashchin Metropolitan of Samara and Novokuibyshevsk, b. 1973

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. Paul Grigoriev Metropolitan of Vladivostok and Primorye consecrated 8 January 2016
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

• 24 July 2019Basil Kulakov Metropolitan of Ekaterinodar and Kuban, b. 1971

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata