Herman Timofeyev

Life

Born

11 November 1937

Monastic tonsure

19 December 1965

Ordained deacon

26 December 1965

Ordained priest

26 May 1966

Made archimandrite

12 September 1967

Consecrated bishop

6 December 1968

Made archbishop

9 September 1983

Made metropolitan

25 February 2000

Retired

28 December 2018

Sees

1. 6 December 1968 – 25 June 1970

   Bishop of Tikhvin

   Vicar of Leningrad · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 25 June 1970 – 3 September 1974

   Bishop of Vienna and Austria

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 3 September 1974 – 10 April 1978

   Bishop of Vilnius and Lithuania

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 10 April 1978 – 9 September 1983

   Bishop of Tula and Belyov

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 9 September 1983 – 29 July 1986

   Archbishop of Tula and Belyov

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 29 July 1986 – 31 January 1991

   Archbishop of Berlin and Central Europe

   Patriarchate of Moscow

7. 31 January 1991 – 25 February 2000

   Archbishop of Volgograd and Kamyshin

   Patriarchate of Moscow

8. 25 February 2000 – 15 March 2012

   Metropolitan of Volgograd and Kamyshin

   Patriarchate of Moscow

9. 15 March 2012 – 28 December 2018

   Metropolitan of Volgograd

   Patriarchate of Moscow

10. 28 December 2018 – present

    Former Metropolitan of Volgograd

    Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 6 December 1968 by:

• Nikodim Rotov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1929–1978
• Feodosii Pogorskii Archbishop of Ufa and Sterlitamak, 1909–1975
• Nikon Fomichyov Archbishop of Perm and Solikamsk, 1910–1995
• Filaret Vakhromeyev Metropolitan of Minsk and Slutsk, 1935–2021
• Juvenal Poyarkov Former Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomenskoye, b. 1935
• Hermogen Orekhov Archbishop of Krasnodar and Kuban, 1929–1980

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. Herman Timofeyev Metropolitan of Volgograd consecrated 6 December 1968
2. Nikodim Rotov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1929–1978 consecrated 10 July 1960
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 9

• 8 August 1982Clement Kapalin Metropolitan of Kaluga and Borovsk, b. 1949
• 25 October 1992Jonah Karpukhin Archbishop of Astrakhan and Kamyzyak, 1941–2020
• 31 January 1999Joseph Balabanov Metropolitan of Ulan-Ude and Buryatia, b. 1954
• 31 March 2012Elisei Fomkin Bishop of Uryupinsk and Novoanninskii, b. 1963
• 1 April 2012Nikifor Khoteyev Bishop of Otradny and Pokhvistnevo, b. 1975
• 2 December 2012Theodore Belkov Bishop of Pokrovsk and Novouzensk, b. 1960
• 13 December 2012Gedeon Gubka Bishop of Vyksa and Pavlovsk, b. 1962
• 6 November 2013John Kovalenko Bishop of Kalach-na-Donu and Pallasovka, b. 1970
• 3 June 2018Feoktist Igumnov Bishop of Pereslavl and Uglich, b. 1977

Sources

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