Benjamin Korolyov

Life

Born

26 October 1965

Ordained deacon

15 March 1997

Ordained priest

7 April 1997

Monastic tonsure

27 December 1998 (monastic tonsure (mantle); minor tonsure (rassophore) 1997-02-23)

Elected bishop

26 July 2012

Made archimandrite

19 August 2012

Consecrated bishop

1 September 2012

Died

26 April 2020

Sees

1. 1 September 2012 – 26 April 2020

   Bishop of Zheleznogorsk and Lgov

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 1 September 2012 by:

• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Varsonofii Sudakov Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, b. 1955
• Herman Moralin Metropolitan of Kursk and Rylsk, b. 1956
• John Popov Metropolitan of Belgorod and Staryi Oskol, b. 1960
• Cyril Pokrovskii Metropolitan of Stavropol and Nevinnomyssk, b. 1963
• Sergii Chashin Metropolitan of Singapore and Southeast Asia, b. 1974
• Zinovii Korzinkin Metropolitan of Saransk and Mordovia, b. 1948

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. Benjamin Korolyov Bishop of Zheleznogorsk and Lgov consecrated 1 September 2012
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 1

• 3 November 2013Tikhon Bobov Bishop of Ishim and Aromashevo, b. 1954

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata