Aleksii Orlov

Life

Born

23 April 1974

Monastic tonsure

9 September 1995

Ordained deacon

11 September 1995

Ordained priest

13 September 1995

Elected bishop

7 March 2018

Made archimandrite

15 March 2018

Consecrated bishop

1 April 2018

Made metropolitan

20 April 2021

Sees

1. 1 April 2018 – 25 August 2020

   Bishop of Serov and Krasnoturinsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 25 August 2020 – 15 April 2021

   Bishop of Nizhny Tagil and Nevyansk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 8 December 2020 – 15 April 2021

   Locum tenens of Serov and Krasnoturinsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 15 April 2021 – 20 April 2021

   Bishop of Chelyabinsk and Miass

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 20 April 2021 – present

   Metropolitan of Chelyabinsk and Miass

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 1 April 2018 by:

• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Vincent Morar Metropolitan of Tashkent and Uzbekistan, b. 1953
• Cyril Nakonechnii Metropolitan of Kazan and Tatarstan, b. 1961
• Sergii Chashin Metropolitan of Singapore and Southeast Asia, b. 1974
• Savva Mikheyev Metropolitan of Vologda and Kirillov, b. 1980
• Innocent Yakovlev Bishop of Alexandrovsk and Yuriev-Polskii, b. 1947
• Mefodii Kondratiev Bishop of Kamensk and Alapayevsk, b. 1957
• John Rudenko Bishop of Shuya and Teikovo, b. 1966
• Eugene Kulberg Metropolitan of Ekaterinburg and Verkhoturye, b. 1972

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. Aleksii Orlov Metropolitan of Chelyabinsk and Miass consecrated 1 April 2018
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

• 6 January 2019Leonid Soldatov Bishop of Argentina and South America, b. 1984

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata