Constantine Ostrovskii

Life

Born

3 August 1977

Monastic tonsure

6 January 2001

Ordained deacon

15 February 2001

Ordained priest

2 December 2002

Elected bishop

26 July 2012

Made archimandrite

29 July 2012

Consecrated bishop

12 August 2012

Made metropolitan

24 March 2024

Sees

1. 12 August 2012 – 13 April 2021

   Bishop of Zaraisk

   Vicar of Moscow · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 13 April 2021 – 25 August 2022

   Bishop of Zaraisk

   Vicar of Krutitsy and Kolomenskoye · Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 25 August 2022 – 11 October 2023

   Bishop of Zaraisk

   Vicar of the Patriarch of Moscow · Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 11 October 2023 – 24 March 2024

   Bishop of Zaraisk

   Exarch of Africa · Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 24 March 2024 – 24 July 2025

   Metropolitan of Zaraisk

   Exarch of Africa · Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 24 July 2025 – present

   Metropolitan of Cairo and North Africa

   Exarch of Africa · Patriarchate of Moscow

7. 2023 – present

   Locum tenens of Johannesburg and South Africa

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 12 August 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
• Gregory Chirkov Archbishop of Mozhaisk, 1942–2018
• Eugene Reshetnikov Archbishop of Vereya, b. 1957
• 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. Constantine Ostrovskii Metropolitan of Cairo and North Africa consecrated 12 August 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 12

• 6 December 2012Paisii Kuznetsov Bishop of Yaransk and Luzsk, b. 1975
• 27 January 2013Varlaam Ponomaryov Archbishop of Makhachkala and Derbent, b. 1974
• 3 November 2013Tikhon Bobov Bishop of Ishim and Aromashevo, b. 1954
• 6 July 2014Agafangel Daineko Bishop of Norilsk and Turukhansk, b. 1975
• 18 May 2015Parmen Shchipelev Bishop of Chistopol and Nizhnekamsk, b. 1956
• 26 October 2015Anthony Sevryuk Metropolitan of Volokolamsk, b. 1984
• 14 August 2016Theodore Malakhanov Archbishop of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskii, b. 1978
• 26 October 2016Peter Dmitriev Bishop of Berdyansk and Primorye, b. 1979
• 11 June 2017Meletii Pavlyuchenkov Bishop of Roslavl and Desnogorsk, b. 1977
• 18 June 2017Aksii Lobov Archbishop of Podilsk and Lyubertsy, b. 1980
• 2 December 2022Khrisanf Konoplyov Bishop of Şymkent and Türkıstan, b. 1962
• 30 April 2023Benjamin Rudyi Bishop of Talǵar, b. 1959

Sources

Also in: Wikidata