Ambrose Ermakov

Life

Born

15 June 1970

Monastic tonsure

7 April 1994

Ordained deacon

29 May 1994

Ordained priest

8 October 1994

Elected bishop

24 December 2004

Made archimandrite

28 December 2004

Consecrated bishop

26 March 2005

Made archbishop

1 February 2014

Made metropolitan

28 August 2020

Sees

1. 26 March 2005 – 19 July 2006

   Bishop of Prokopievsk

   Vicar of Kemerovo · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 19 July 2006 – 6 October 2008

   Bishop of Bronnitsy

   Vicar of Moscow · Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 6 October 2008 – 12 March 2013

   Bishop of Gatchina

   Vicar of Saint Petersburg · Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 12 March 2013 – 1 February 2014

   Bishop of Petergof

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 1 February 2014 – 2018

   Archbishop of Petergof

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 2018 – 25 August 2020

   Archbishop of Vereya

   Vicar of the Patriarch of Moscow · Patriarchate of Moscow

7. 25 August 2020 – 28 August 2020

   Archbishop of Tver and Kashin

   Patriarchate of Moscow

8. 28 August 2020 – present

   Metropolitan of Tver and Kashin

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 26 March 2005 by:

• Aleksii II Ridiger Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1929–2008
• Juvenal Poyarkov Former Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomenskoye, b. 1935
• Clement Kapalin Metropolitan of Kaluga and Borovsk, b. 1949
• Arsenii Epifanov Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Zadonsk, b. 1955
• Filaret Karagodin Archbishop of Penza and Kuznetsy, b. 1946
• Herman Moralin Metropolitan of Kursk and Rylsk, b. 1956
• Maximilian Lazarenko Archbishop of Pesochenskii and Yukhnov, b. 1950
• Rostislav Devyatov Metropolitan of Tomsk and Asino, b. 1963
• Eugene Reshetnikov Archbishop of Vereya, b. 1957
• Aleksii Frolov Archbishop of Kostroma and Halych, 1947–2013
• Savva Volkov Archbishop of Tiraspol and Dubăsari, b. 1958
• Merkurii Ivanov Metropolitan of Rostov and Novocherkassk, b. 1964
• Alexander Agrikov Metropolitan of Bryansk and Sevsk, b. 1953
• Feognost Guzikov Metropolitan of Kashira, b. 1960
• Benjamin Zaritskii Metropolitan of Orenburg and Saraktash, 1953–2023
• Longin Korchagin Metropolitan of Simbirsk and Novospasskoye, b. 1961
• Savvatii Antonov Metropolitan of Cheboksary and Chuvash, b. 1968

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. Ambrose Ermakov Metropolitan of Tver and Kashin consecrated 26 March 2005
2. Alexander Agrikov Metropolitan of Bryansk and Sevsk, b. 1953 consecrated 2 September 2001
3. Herman Swaiko Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada, 1931–2022 consecrated 10 February 1973
4. Silvester Haruns Archbishop of Montréal and Canada, 1914–2000 consecrated 27 April 1952
5. Vladimir Tikhonitskii Metropolitan of Białystok, 1873–1959 consecrated 3 June 1907
6. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
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 30

• 3 April 2005Tikhon Lobkovskii Archbishop of Maikop and Adygea, b. 1968
• 19 August 2006Alexander Matryonin Bishop of Daugavpils and Rēzekne, b. 1973
• 20 August 2006Aristarkh Smirnov Metropolitan of Kemerovo and Prokopievsk, b. 1959
• 24 September 2006Feofilakt Kuryanov Archbishop of Pyatigorsk and Cherkessk, b. 1974
• 26 November 2006Elisei Ganaba Archbishop of the Hague and the Netherlands, b. 1962
• 15 February 2007Sergii Chashin Metropolitan of Singapore and Southeast Asia, b. 1974
• 11 March 2007Marcel Mihăescu Archbishop of Bălţi and Făleşti, b. 1959
• 23 March 2008Nikodim Chibisov Metropolitan of Ryazan and Mikhailovka, b. 1969
• 2 June 2008Ieronim Chernyshov Bishop of Oryol and Livny, b. 1966
• 26 April 2009Tikhon Zaitsev Archbishop of Ruza, b. 1967
• 28 May 2009Nazarii Lavrinenko Bishop of Kuznetsk and Nikolsk, b. 1952
• 21 July 2009Lazar Gurkin Bishop of Narva and Prichudye, b. 1969
• 5 September 2010Nestor Sirotenko Metropolitan of Stupino, b. 1974
• 2 January 2011Filaret Kucherov Metropolitan of Lviv and Halych, b. 1972
• 21 September 2011Adrian Ulyanov Bishop of Rzhev and Toropets, b. 1951
• 22 May 2012Mstislav Dyachina Bishop of Tikhvin and Lodeinoye Pole, b. 1967
• 18 November 2012Basil Danilov Bishop of Kotlas and Velsk, b. 1956
• 27 January 2013Varlaam Ponomaryov Archbishop of Makhachkala and Derbent, b. 1974
• 9 July 2015Vsevolod Ponich Bishop of Urzhum and Omutninsk, b. 1961
• 12 July 2015Nicholas Krivenko Bishop of Severobaikalsk and Sosnovo-Ozerskoye, b. 1971
• 26 October 2015Anthony Sevryuk Metropolitan of Volokolamsk, b. 1984
• 28 December 2015Anthony Prostikhin Bishop of Slavgorod and Kamensk, b. 1976
• 30 April 2017Alexander Zaitsev Bishop of Plesetsk and Kargopol, b. 1969
• 2 May 2017Tarasii Perov Bishop of Severomorsk and Umba, b. 1976
• 19 August 2017Feodorit Tikhonov Bishop of Venyov, b. 1980
• 2 December 2018Spyridon Morozov Bishop of Birsk and Beloretsk, b. 1987
• 3 March 2019Savva Tutunov Archbishop of Zelenograd, b. 1978
• 16 June 2019Aleksii Polikarpov Bishop of Solnechnogorsk, b. 1948
• 28 August 2020Artemii Kuzmin Bishop of Taganrog, b. 1983
• 2 December 2022Khrisanf Konoplyov Bishop of Şymkent and Türkıstan, b. 1962

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata