Simon Getya

Life

Born

14 November 1949

Monastic tonsure

2 December 1983

Ordained deacon

8 January 1984

Ordained priest

15 February 1984

Made archimandrite

1990

Consecrated bishop

3 October 1993

Made archbishop

29 February 2004

Made metropolitan

8 October 2013

Retired

4 April 2019

Sees

1. 3 October 1993 – 27 December 1995

   Bishop of Tikhvin

   Vicar of Saint Petersburg · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 27 December 1995 – 29 February 2004

   Bishop of Murmansk and Monchegorsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 29 February 2004 – 8 October 2013

   Archbishop of Murmansk and Monchegorsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 8 October 2013 – 26 February 2019

   Metropolitan of Murmansk and Monchegorsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 26 February 2019 – 4 April 2019

   Metropolitan of Oryol and Bolkhov

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 4 April 2019 – present

   Former Metropolitan of Oryol and Bolkhov

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 3 October 1993 by:

• Aleksii II Ridiger Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1929–2008
• John Snychyov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Ladoga, 1927–1995
• Juvenal Poyarkov Former Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomenskoye, b. 1935
• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Leontii Bondar Metropolitan of Orenburg and Buzuluk, 1913–1999
• Anatolii Kuznetsov Archbishop of Kerch, 1930–2024
• Sergii Fomin Metropolitan of Voronezh and Liski, b. 1949
• Victor Oleinik Metropolitan of Tver and Kashin, b. 1940
• Arsenii Epifanov Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Zadonsk, b. 1955
• Cornelius Jakobs Metropolitan of Tallinn and All Estonia, 1924–2018
• Evlogii Smirnov Metropolitan of Vladimir and Suzdal, 1937–2020
• Elevferii Kozorev Archbishop of Şymkent and Taraz, 1953–2021

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 10 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Simon Getya Metropolitan of Oryol and Bolkhov consecrated 3 October 1993
2. Leontii Bondar Metropolitan of Orenburg and Buzuluk, 1913–1999 consecrated 10 August 1956
3. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
4. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
5. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
6. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
7. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
8. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
9. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
10. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
11. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 2

• 24 November 2013Mitrofan Badanin Metropolitan of Murmansk and Monchegorsk, b. 1953
• 2 May 2017Tarasii Perov Bishop of Severomorsk and Umba, b. 1976