John Roshchin

Life

Born

22 October 1974

Ordained deacon

28 August 2007

Ordained priest

23 September 2007

Monastic tonsure

11 March 2014

Elected bishop

25 July 2014

Made archimandrite

28 July 2014

Consecrated bishop

1 August 2014

Made metropolitan

3 January 2019

Retired

11 March 2020

Sees

1. 1 August 2014 – 15 October 2018

   Bishop of Naro-Fominsk

   Vicar of the Patriarch of Moscow · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 15 October 2018 – 28 December 2018

   Bishop of Bogorodsk

   Vicar of the Patriarch of Moscow · Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 28 December 2018 – 3 January 2019

   Bishop of Korsun and Western Europe

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 3 January 2019 – 30 May 2019

   Metropolitan of Korsun and Western Europe

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 30 May 2019 – 30 August 2019

   Metropolitan of Vienna and Budapest

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 30 August 2019 – 11 March 2020

   Metropolitan of Vienna and Austria

   Patriarchate of Moscow

7. 11 March 2020 – present

   Former Metropolitan of Vienna and Austria

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 1 August 2014 by:

• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Juvenal Poyarkov Former Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomenskoye, b. 1935
• Hilarion Alfeyev Metropolitan of Budapest and Hungary, b. 1966
• Mark Golovkov Metropolitan of Korsun and Western Europe, b. 1964
• Sergii Chashin Metropolitan of Singapore and Southeast Asia, b. 1974

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. John Roshchin Metropolitan of Vienna and Austria consecrated 1 August 2014
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 2

• 24 January 2015Daniel Brum Archbishop of Chicago and the Midwest, b. 1954
• 6 November 2016Irinei Steenberg Bishop of London and Western Europe, b. 1978

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata