Leonid Soldatov

Life

Born

8 July 1984

Monastic tonsure

29 April 2012

Ordained deacon

3 June 2012

Ordained priest

15 July 2012

Elected bishop

28 December 2018

Made archimandrite

31 December 2018

Consecrated bishop

6 January 2019

Sees

1. 6 January 2019 – 11 March 2020

   Bishop of Alapayevsk and Irbit

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 11 March 2020 – present

   Bishop of Argentina and South America

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 6 January 2019 by:

• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Cyril Nakonechnii Metropolitan of Kazan and Tatarstan, b. 1961
• Sergii Chashin Metropolitan of Singapore and Southeast Asia, b. 1974
• Matthew Kopylov Metropolitan of Pskov and Porkhov, b. 1979
• Dionisii Porubai Metropolitan of Omsk and Priirtyshye, b. 1975
• Mefodii Kondratiev Bishop of Kamensk and Alapayevsk, b. 1957
• John Rudenko Bishop of Shuya and Teikovo, b. 1966
• Eugene Kulberg Metropolitan of Ekaterinburg and Verkhoturye, b. 1972
• Aleksii Orlov Metropolitan of Chelyabinsk and Miass, 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. Leonid Soldatov Bishop of Argentina and South America consecrated 6 January 2019
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

• 12 September 2019Leontii Kozlov Metropolitan of Voronezh and Liski, b. 1970

Sources

Also in: Wikidata