Benjamin Rudyi

Life

Born

17 July 1959

Ordained deacon

7 April 1990

Ordained priest

28 August 1990

Monastic tonsure

12 April 1992

Made hegumen

2000

Made archimandrite

2016

Elected bishop

16 March 2023

Consecrated bishop

30 April 2023

Sees

1. 30 April 2023 – present

   Bishop of Talǵar

   Vicar of Astana · Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 30 April 2023 by:

• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Alexander Mogilyov Metropolitan of Astana and Kazakhstan, b. 1957
• Paul Ponomaryov Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomna, b. 1952
• Anthony Sevryuk Metropolitan of Volokolamsk, b. 1984
• Mitrofan Badanin Metropolitan of Murmansk and Monchegorsk, b. 1953
• Benjamin Likhomanov Bishop of Rybinsk and Romanov-Borisoglebsk, b. 1952
• Constantine Ostrovskii Metropolitan of Cairo and North Africa, b. 1977

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 Rudyi Bishop of Talǵar consecrated 30 April 2023
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