Benedict Molchanov

Life

Born

10 December 1975

Ordained deacon

10 March 1996

Monastic tonsure

29 March 1996

Ordained priest

3 June 1996

Consecrated bishop

16 January 2000

Made archbishop

25 June 2001

Made metropolitan

14 December 2002

Became patriarch

July 2020

Sees

1. 16 January 2000 – 25 June 2001

   Bishop of Tsaritsyn and Sicheslavsk

   Apostolic Orthodox Church

2. 25 June 2001 – 14 December 2002

   Archbishop of Tsaritsyn and Verkhnodniprovsk

   Apostolic Orthodox Church

3. 14 December 2002 – 14 July 2003

   Metropolitan of Tsaritsyn and Verkhnodniprovsk

   Ukrainian True Orthodox Church

4. 14 July 2003 – 16 February 2004

   Metropolitan of Tsaritsyn and Verkhnodniprovsk

   True Orthodox Church in Russia

5. 16 February 2004 – July 2020

   Metropolitan of Zaporizhzhya and Kamskii

   True Orthodox Church in Russia

6. July 2020 – present

   Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia

   Patriarchate of the Russian True Orthodox Catacomb Church

Consecration

Consecrated 16 January 2000 by:

• Stephen Linitskii Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Mozhaisk, b. 1934
• Kiriak Temertsidi/Timirtsidi Metropolitan of the Southern Russian Autonomous Metropolitical Region, b. 1942

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 14 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Benedict Molchanov Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia consecrated 16 January 2000
2. Stephen Linitskii Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Mozhaisk, b. 1934 consecrated 17 December 1996
3. John Modzalevskii Archbishop of Uman, b. 1970 consecrated 17 June 1996
4. Roman Blashchuk/Balashchuk Metropolitan of Vinnytsya and Bratslav, b. 1953 consecrated 22 May 1990
5. John Bodnarchuk Metropolitan of Lutsk and Volyn, 1929–1994 consecrated 23 October 1977
6. Nicholas Yurik Metropolitan of Lviv and Ternopil, 1910–1984 consecrated 31 October 1965
7. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
8. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
9. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
10. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
11. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
12. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
13. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
14. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
15. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 9

• 18 October 2002Damian Akimov Archbishop of Khersones Tavricheskii and All Gotiya, cons. 2002
• 19 December 2002Luke Nikolayenko Metropolitan of Odessa and Izmail, cons. 2002
• 21 June 2005Aleksii Boiko Metropolitan of Pyatigorsk and the Caucasus, b. 1963
• 11 May 2012Peter Kirichenko Metropolitan of Solntsevo and Odintsovo, d. 2016
• January 2013Joseph Anufriev Chor-Bishop of Tikhvin, b. 1996
• 19 January 2013Varsonofii Semenchuk Bishop of Ekaterinburg and Zabaikal, b. 1995
• 7 August 2014Alexander Ergashin Bishop of Orenburg and Kuvandyk, b. 1978
• George Krotkevich Bishop of Almaty
• date unknownRostislav Melnikov Bishop of Volga