Sofronii Kitayev

Life

Born

29 November 1978

Monastic tonsure

5 April 2001

Ordained deacon

7 April 2001

Ordained priest

12 April 2001

Elected bishop

7 June 2012

Made archimandrite

9 June 2012

Consecrated bishop

22 July 2012

Retired

15 May 2025

Sees

1. 22 July 2012 – 15 May 2025

   Bishop of Gubkin and Graivoron

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 15 May 2025 – present

   Former Bishop of Gubkin and Graivoron

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 22 July 2012 by:

• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Juvenal Poyarkov Former Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomenskoye, b. 1935
• Varsonofii Sudakov Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, b. 1955
• Sergii Fomin Metropolitan of Voronezh and Liski, b. 1949
• John Popov Metropolitan of Belgorod and Staryi Oskol, b. 1960
• Herman Moralin Metropolitan of Kursk and Rylsk, b. 1956
• 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. Sofronii Kitayev Bishop of Gubkin and Graivoron consecrated 22 July 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 4

• 21 August 2012Innocent Vetrov Bishop of Mariinsk and Yurginsk, b. 1973
• 3 November 2013Tikhon Bobov Bishop of Ishim and Aromashevo, b. 1954
• 23 November 2014Flavian Mitrofanov Bishop of Cherepovets and Belozersk, b. 1975
• 22 November 2015Savva Nikiforov Bishop of Valuiki and Alekseyevka, b. 1974

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata