Simon Ishunin

Life

Born

7 December 1951

Monastic tonsure

17 January 1975

Ordained deacon

19 January 1975

Ordained priest

13 June 1976

Made archimandrite

1982

Consecrated bishop

11 April 1987

Made archbishop

24 February 1994

Sees

1. 11 April 1987 – 24 February 1994

   Bishop of Brussels and Belgium

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 1994 – 2017

   Locum tenens of the Hague and the Netherlands

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 24 February 1994 – present

   Archbishop of Brussels and Belgium

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 11 April 1987 by:

• Aleksii II Ridiger Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1929–2008
• Juvenal Poyarkov Former Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomenskoye, b. 1935
• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Khrisanf Chepil Metropolitan of Kirov and Sloboda, 1937–2011
• Feofan Galinskii Archbishop of Berlin and Germany, 1954–2017

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. Simon Ishunin Archbishop of Brussels and Belgium consecrated 11 April 1987
2. Aleksii II Ridiger Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1929–2008 consecrated 3 September 1961
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

• 31 May 1987Eugene Zhdan Archbishop of Tambov and Michurinsk, 1942–2002
• 1 November 1987Leo Tserpitskii Metropolitan of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, b. 1946
• 27 September 2006Marcel Vetrov Bishop of Tsarskoye Selo, 1952–2019
• 21 September 2011Adrian Ulyanov Bishop of Rzhev and Toropets, b. 1951
• 8 November 2015Peter Bozinis Bishop of Troas, b. 1971
• 14 December 2025Augustine Macbeth Bishop of Taldom, b. 1973

Sources

Also in: Wikidata