Nikodim Chibisov

Life

Born

30 December 1969

Monastic tonsure

24 December 1997

Ordained deacon

7 January 1998

Ordained priest

18 January 1998

Elected bishop

27 December 2007

Made archimandrite

9 March 2008

Consecrated bishop

23 March 2008

Made metropolitan

8 June 2014

Sees

1. 23 March 2008 – 31 March 2009

   Bishop of Shatura

   Vicar of Moscow · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 31 March 2009 – 30 May 2011

   Bishop of Anadyr and Chukotka

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 30 May 2011 – 30 May 2014

   Bishop of Yeniseisk and Norilsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 30 May 2014 – 8 June 2014

   Bishop of Chelyabinsk and Zlatoust

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 8 June 2014 – 27 December 2016

   Metropolitan of Chelyabinsk and Zlatoust

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 27 December 2016 – 28 December 2018

   Metropolitan of Chelyabinsk and Miass

   Patriarchate of Moscow

7. 28 December 2018 – 12 March 2026

   Metropolitan of Novosibirsk and Berdsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

8. 15 April 2021 – 15 February 2024

   Locum tenens of Kainsk and Barabinsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

9. 24 July 2025 – 30 October 2025

   Locum tenens of Karasuk and Ordynskoye

   Patriarchate of Moscow

10. 12 March 2026 – present

    Metropolitan of Ryazan and Mikhailovka

    Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 23 March 2008 by:

• Aleksii II Ridiger Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1929–2008
• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Clement Kapalin Metropolitan of Kaluga and Borovsk, b. 1949
• Vladimir Ikim Metropolitan of Tashkent and Central Asia, b. 1940
• Arsenii Epifanov Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Zadonsk, b. 1955
• Alexander Agrikov Metropolitan of Bryansk and Sevsk, b. 1953
• Feognost Guzikov Metropolitan of Kashira, b. 1960
• Ambrose Ermakov Metropolitan of Tver and Kashin, b. 1970
• Aristarkh Smirnov Metropolitan of Kemerovo and Prokopievsk, b. 1959

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. Nikodim Chibisov Metropolitan of Ryazan and Mikhailovka consecrated 23 March 2008
2. Alexander Agrikov Metropolitan of Bryansk and Sevsk, b. 1953 consecrated 2 September 2001
3. Herman Swaiko Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada, 1931–2022 consecrated 10 February 1973
4. Silvester Haruns Archbishop of Montréal and Canada, 1914–2000 consecrated 27 April 1952
5. Vladimir Tikhonitskii Metropolitan of Białystok, 1873–1959 consecrated 3 June 1907
6. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
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 8

• 2 June 2008Ieronim Chernyshov Bishop of Oryol and Livny, b. 1966
• 3 September 2011Serapheim Kuzminov Bishop of Belyov and Aleksin, b. 1977
• 24 March 2012Filaret Gusev Bishop of Dalneye Konstantinovo, b. 1975
• 17 June 2012Sofronii Balandin Bishop of Kinel and Bezenchuk, b. 1973
• 12 September 2012Serapheim Domnin Metropolitan of Penza and Nizhny Lomov, b. 1977
• 8 June 2014Vladimir Mikheikin Archbishop of Petropavl and Bulayevo, b. 1968
• 22 June 2014Nikanor Anfilatov Archbishop of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk and the Kurile Islands, b. 1970
• 3 January 2017Vincent Bryleyev Bishop of Tara and Tyukalinsk, b. 1979

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata