Isidore Kirichenko

Life

Born

25 May 1941

Monastic tonsure

5 January 1967

Ordained deacon

5 February 1967

Ordained priest

7 April 1967

Made archimandrite

12 June 1977

Consecrated bishop

19 June 1977

Made archbishop

10 March 1989

Made metropolitan

22 February 2001

Died

8 August 2020

Sees

1. 19 June 1977 – June 1985

   Bishop of Arkhangelsk and Kholmogory

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. June 1985 – 12 May 1987

   Bishop of Arkhangelsk and Murmansk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 12 May 1987 – 10 March 1989

   Bishop of Krasnodar and Kuban

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 10 March 1989 – 26 February 1994

   Archbishop of Krasnodar and Kuban

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 26 February 1994 – 22 February 2001

   Archbishop of Krasnodar and Novorossiisk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 22 February 2001 – 3 April 2001

   Metropolitan of Krasnodar and Novorossiisk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

7. 3 April 2001 – 8 August 2020

   Metropolitan of Ekaterinodar and Kuban

   Patriarchate of Moscow

8. 2002 – 2003

   Locum tenens of Stavropol and Vladikavkaz

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 19 June 1977 by:

• Nikodim Rotov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1929–1978
• Juvenal Poyarkov Former Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomenskoye, b. 1935
• Melkhisedek Lebedev Archbishop of Bryansk and Sevsk, 1927–2016
• Meliton Solovyov Archbishop of Tikhvin, 1897–1986
• Irinei Serednii Metropolitan of Dnipropetrovsk and Pavlohrad, b. 1939
• Anthony Zavgorodnii Archbishop of Stavropol and Baku, b. 1938
• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946

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. Isidore Kirichenko Metropolitan of Ekaterinodar and Kuban consecrated 19 June 1977
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 14

• 23 April 1978Khrisanf Chepil Metropolitan of Kirov and Sloboda, 1937–2011
• 31 May 1987Eugene Zhdan Archbishop of Tambov and Michurinsk, 1942–2002
• 27 September 1989Alexander Mogilyov Metropolitan of Astana and Kazakhstan, b. 1957
• 25 October 1992Jonah Karpukhin Archbishop of Astrakhan and Kamyzyak, 1941–2020
• 6 March 1994Nestor Sapsai Bishop of Petropavl and Kamchatka, 1931–2004
• 26 March 1994Nektarii Korobov Bishop of Saratov and Volsk, 1942–1994
• 3 April 2005Tikhon Lobkovskii Archbishop of Maikop and Adygea, b. 1968
• 28 May 2009Nazarii Lavrinenko Bishop of Kuznetsk and Nikolsk, b. 1952
• 7 December 2010Innocent Erokhin Bishop of Balakovo and Nikolayevskii, b. 1967
• 1 May 2011Herman Kamalov Bishop of Sochi and Tuapse, b. 1968
• 13 December 2012Gedeon Gubka Bishop of Vyksa and Pavlovsk, b. 1962
• 14 April 2013Feognost Dmitriev Bishop of Serov and Krasnoturinsk, b. 1965
• 25 February 2014Stephen Kavtarashvili Bishop of Tikhoretsk and Korenovsk, b. 1971
• 13 April 2014Ignatii Buzin Bishop of Armavir and Labinsk, b. 1973

Sources

Also in: Wikidata