Nikita Ananiev

Life

Born

14 November 1969

Monastic tonsure

9 April 1992

Ordained deacon

20 May 1992

Ordained priest

19 August 1992

Made archimandrite

11 April 2004

Elected bishop

16 March 2012

Consecrated bishop

27 May 2012

Made metropolitan

13 April 2025

Sees

1. 27 May 2012 – 2 October 2013

   Bishop of Lyudinovo

   Vicar of Kaluga · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 2 October 2013 – 20 March 2025

   Bishop of Kozelsk and Lyudinovo

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 20 March 2025 – 13 April 2025

   Bishop of Krasnoyarsk and Achinsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 13 April 2025 – present

   Metropolitan of Krasnoyarsk and Achinsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 16 July 2026 – present

   Locum tenens of Yeniseisk and Lesosibirsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 27 May 2012 by:

• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Juvenal Poyarkov Former Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomenskoye, b. 1935
• Clement Kapalin Metropolitan of Kaluga and Borovsk, b. 1949
• Arsenii Epifanov Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Zadonsk, b. 1955
• Sergii Chashin Metropolitan of Singapore and Southeast Asia, b. 1974

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. Nikita Ananiev Metropolitan of Krasnoyarsk and Achinsk consecrated 27 May 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 6

• 28 October 2012Filaret Konkov Metropolitan of Ufa and Bashkiria, b. 1963
• 23 October 2013Serapion Kolosnitsin Archbishop of Kökşetau and Akmola, 1964–2025
• 9 September 2014Nektarii Seleznyov Bishop of Livny and Maloarkhangelsk, b. 1974
• 24 October 2015Tikhon Shevkunov Metropolitan of Simferopol and the Crimea, b. 1958
• 4 December 2015Serapheim Savostyanov Bishop of Biisk and Belokurikha, b. 1971
• 19 August 2020Joseph Korolyov Bishop of Mozhaisk, b. 1977

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru