Simon Morozov

Life

Born

13 October 1975

Monastic tonsure

22 May 1997

Ordained deacon

1 June 1997

Ordained priest

8 October 1999

Elected bishop

30 May 2014

Made archimandrite

31 May 2014

Consecrated bishop

11 July 2014

Sees

1. 11 July 2014 – 22 October 2026

   Bishop of Shakhtinsk and Millerovo

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 22 October 2026 (probably 2026-10-22: the directory gives the title, its biography not the date) – present

   Bishop of Atkarsk

   Vicar of Saratov · Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 11 July 2014 by:

• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Varsonofii Sudakov Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, b. 1955
• Merkurii Ivanov Metropolitan of Rostov and Novocherkassk, b. 1964
• Serapheim Domnin Metropolitan of Penza and Nizhny Lomov, b. 1977
• Pankratii Zherdev Archbishop of Troitskii, b. 1955
• Sergii Chashin Metropolitan of Singapore and Southeast Asia, b. 1974
• Ignatii Deputatov Metropolitan of Saratov and Volsk, b. 1977
• Cornelius Sinyayev Metropolitan of Arkhangelsk and Kholmogory, b. 1976
• Ignatii Tarasov Bishop of Kostomuksha and Kem, b. 1976

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. Simon Morozov Bishop of Atkarsk consecrated 11 July 2014
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 4

• 23 November 2014Flavian Mitrofanov Bishop of Cherepovets and Belozersk, b. 1975
• 20 November 2017Ignatii Suranov Bishop of Cherepovets and Belozersk, b. 1978
• 28 August 2020Artemii Kuzmin Bishop of Taganrog, b. 1983
• 17 April 2022Bartholomew Denisov Metropolitan of Novosibirsk and Berdsk, b. 1975

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru