Irinarkh Grezin

Life

Born

23 November 1951

Monastic tonsure

3 April 1985

Ordained deacon

13 April 1985

Ordained priest

15 April 1985

Elected bishop

13 March 2002 (Synod session of 12-13 марта 2002)

Made archimandrite

16 March 2002

Consecrated bishop

14 April 2002

Died

24 January 2024

Sees

1. 14 April 2002 – 5 March 2010

   Bishop of Perm and Solikamsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 5 March 2010 – 13 April 2021

   Bishop of Krasnogorsk

   Vicar of Moscow · Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 13 April 2021 – 24 January 2024

   Bishop of Ramenskoye

   Vicar of Moscow · Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 14 April 2002 by:

• Aleksii II Ridiger Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1929–2008
• Juvenal Poyarkov Former Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomenskoye, b. 1935
• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Sergii Fomin Metropolitan of Voronezh and Liski, b. 1949
• Pitirim Nechayev Metropolitan of Volokolamsk and Yuriev, 1926–2003
• Barnabas Kedrov Metropolitan of Cheboksary and Chuvash, 1931–2020
• Arsenii Epifanov Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Zadonsk, b. 1955
• Vincent Morar Metropolitan of Tashkent and Uzbekistan, b. 1953
• Sofronii Budko Archbishop of Kemerovo and Novokuznetsk, 1930–2008
• Nephon Saykali Metropolitan of Philippopolis (Chehba), cons. 1988
• Constantine Goryanov Metropolitan of Petrozavodsk and Karelia, b. 1951
• Aleksii Frolov Archbishop of Kostroma and Halych, 1947–2013
• Cyril Nakonechnii Metropolitan of Kazan and Tatarstan, b. 1961
• Alexander Agrikov Metropolitan of Bryansk and Sevsk, b. 1953
• Feognost Guzikov Metropolitan of Kashira, b. 1960

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. Irinarkh Grezin Bishop of Ramenskoye consecrated 14 April 2002
2. Pitirim Nechayev Metropolitan of Volokolamsk and Yuriev, 1926–2003 consecrated 23 May 1963
3. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
4. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
5. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
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 10

• 20 April 2002Feofilakt Moiseyev Former Bishop of Mytishchi, 1949–2023
• 21 April 2002Feodosii Vasnev Metropolitan of Tambov and Rasskazovo, b. 1961
• 14 August 2003Benjamin Zaritskii Metropolitan of Orenburg and Saraktash, 1953–2023
• 2 December 2011Vladimir Samokhin Metropolitan of Donetsk and Mariupol, b. 1979
• 29 January 2012Nicholas Ashimov Bishop of Amur and Chegdomyn, b. 1980
• 25 February 2012Iakov Tislenko Bishop of Naryan-Mar and Mezen, b. 1960
• 22 April 2012Barnabas Baranov Bishop of Karasuk and Ordynskoye, b. 1965
• 18 November 2012Basil Danilov Bishop of Kotlas and Velsk, b. 1956
• 24 November 2013Mitrofan Badanin Metropolitan of Murmansk and Monchegorsk, b. 1953
• 2 December 2013Aleksii Mulyar Bishop of Sayansk and Nizhneudinsk, b. 1976

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata