Barnabas Prokofiev

Life

Born

1945

Monastic tonsure

29 April 1982

Consecrated bishop

29 April 1982

Defrocked

24 June 2014

Died

2 November 2017

Sees

1. 29 April 1982 – 11 January 1995

   Bishop of Menton

   ROCOR

2. 11 January 1995 – September 1995

   Bishop of Sydney, Australia and New Zealand

   ROCOR

3. September 1995 – November 2001

   Bishop of No See

   ROCOR

4. November 2001 – 2001

   Bishop

   ROCOR (Vitaly)

5. 2001 – 2003

   Archbishop of Cannes and Europe

   ROCOR (Vitaly)

6. 2003 – 2004

   Archbishop of Cannes and Western Europe

   ROCOR (Vitaly)

7. 2004

   Former Archbishop of Cannes and Western Europe

   ROCOR (Vitaly)

8. 2004 – 2006

   Layperson

   ROCOR (Vitaly)

9. February 2006 – 24 June 2014

   Former Bishop of Cannes

   Patriarchate of Moscow

10. 24 June 2014 – 2 November 2017

    Layperson

    Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 29 April 1982 by:

• Anthony Bartoshevich Archbishop of Geneva and Western Europe, 1910–1993
• Mark Arndt Metropolitan of Berlin and Germany, b. 1941

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. Barnabas Prokofiev Bishop of Cannes consecrated 29 April 1982
2. Anthony Bartoshevich Archbishop of Geneva and Western Europe, 1910–1993 consecrated 5 May 1957
3. John Maximovich Archbishop of San Francisco and Western America, 1896–1966 consecrated 1934
4. Anthony Khrapovitsky Metropolitan of Kyiv and Halych, 1863–1936 consecrated 7 September 1897
5. Arsenii Bryantsev Archbishop of Kharkiv and Okhtyrka, 1839–1914 consecrated 17 May 1882
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 8

• 10 May 1982Lazar Zhurbenko Archbishop of Tambov and Morshansk, d. 2005
• 10 February 1991Valentine Rusantsov Metropolitan of Suzdal and Vladimir, 1939–2012
• 19 September 1993Serapheim Dulgoff Archbishop of Brussels and Western Europe, 1923–2003
• 3 November 2001Sergii Kindyakov Archbishop of Montréal and Eastern Canada, 1933–2006
• 6 November 2001Vladimir Tselishchev Bishop of San Francisco and Western America, b. 1966
• 28 June 2003Anthony Rudei Bishop of Bălţi, cons. 2003
• 30 June 2003Victor Pivovarov Bishop of Slovyansk and Southern Russia, b. 1937
• 2004Anthony Orlov Archbishop of Los Angeles and South America, cons. 2004

Sources

Also in: Wikidata