Serapion Kolosnitsin

Life

Born

6 July 1964

Monastic tonsure

3 July 1988

Ordained deacon

17 July 1988

Ordained priest

10 October 1990

Made hegumen

1999

Elected bishop

2 October 2013

Made archimandrite

13 October 2013

Consecrated bishop

23 October 2013

Made archbishop

6 May 2022

Died

28 January 2025

Sees

1. 23 October 2013 – 6 May 2022

   Bishop of Kökşetau and Akmola

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 6 May 2022 – 28 January 2025

   Archbishop of Kökşetau and Akmola

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 23 October 2013 by:

• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Alexander Mogilyov Metropolitan of Astana and Kazakhstan, b. 1957
• Varsonofii Sudakov Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, b. 1955
• Clement Kapalin Metropolitan of Kaluga and Borovsk, b. 1949
• Justinian Ovchinnikov Archbishop of Elista and Kalmykia, b. 1961
• Feognost Guzikov Metropolitan of Kashira, b. 1960
• Sergii Chashin Metropolitan of Singapore and Southeast Asia, b. 1974
• Nikita Ananiev Metropolitan of Krasnoyarsk and Achinsk, b. 1969

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. Serapion Kolosnitsin Archbishop of Kökşetau and Akmola consecrated 23 October 2013
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

• 1 May 2022Ignatii Sidorenko Bishop of Aktobe and Kyzylorda, b. 1965
• 6 May 2022Klavdian Polyakov Bishop of Taldykorgan, b. 1971

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata