Herman Moralin

Life

Born

24 December 1956

Ordained deacon

19 August 1983

Monastic tonsure

8 March 1984

Ordained priest

10 March 1984

Made archimandrite

1987

Elected bishop

23 February 1993

Consecrated bishop

28 March 1993

Made archbishop

25 February 2000

Made metropolitan

1 August 2012

Sees

1. 28 March 1993 – 26 December 1995

   Bishop of Yakutsk and Vilyuisk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 26 December 1995 – 25 February 2000

   Bishop of Yakutsk and Lensk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 25 February 2000 – 17 August 2004

   Archbishop of Yakutsk and Lensk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 17 August 2004 – 1 August 2012

   Archbishop of Kursk and Rylsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 1 August 2012 – present

   Metropolitan of Kursk and Rylsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 28 March 1993 by:

• Aleksii II Ridiger Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1929–2008
• Juvenal Poyarkov Former Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomenskoye, b. 1935
• Serapion Fadeyev Metropolitan of Tula and Belyov, 1933–1999
• Sergii Fomin Metropolitan of Voronezh and Liski, b. 1949
• Arsenii Epifanov Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Zadonsk, b. 1955
• Victor Pyankov Bishop of Podilsk, b. 1944
• Evlogii Smirnov Metropolitan of Vladimir and Suzdal, 1937–2020

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. Herman Moralin Metropolitan of Kursk and Rylsk consecrated 28 March 1993
2. Aleksii II Ridiger Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1929–2008 consecrated 3 September 1961
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 14

• 3 April 1993Michael Raskovalov Bishop of Kurgan and Shadrinsk, 1953–2008
• 4 April 1993John Popov Metropolitan of Belgorod and Staryi Oskol, b. 1960
• 27 September 2004Zosima Davydov Bishop of Yakutsk and Lensk, 1963–2010
• 26 March 2005Ambrose Ermakov Metropolitan of Tver and Kashin, b. 1970
• 10 August 2006Roman Gavrilov Bishop of Serpukhov, b. 1957
• 3 April 2011Zinovii Korzinkin Metropolitan of Saransk and Mordovia, b. 1948
• 18 September 2011Andrew Tarasov Bishop of Rossosh and Ostrogozhsk, b. 1975
• 2 May 2012Nil Sychev Bishop of Murom and Vyazniki, b. 1964
• 1 July 2012Nikon Fomin Metropolitan of Astrakhan and Kamyzyak, b. 1963
• 22 July 2012Sofronii Kitayev Bishop of Gubkin and Graivoron, b. 1978
• 1 August 2012Pitirim Tvorogov Bishop of Dushanbe and Tajikistan, b. 1967
• 1 September 2012Benjamin Korolyov Bishop of Zheleznogorsk and Lgov, 1965–2020
• 19 August 2014Paisii Yurkov Bishop of Zheleznogorsk and Lgov, b. 1970
• 22 November 2015Savva Nikiforov Bishop of Valuiki and Alekseyevka, b. 1974

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata