Gregory Chirkov

Life

Born

1 January 1942

Monastic tonsure

15 March 1973

Ordained deacon

25 March 1973

Ordained priest

4 December 1973

Made archimandrite

1978

Consecrated bishop

13 September 1987

Made archbishop

25 February 1997

Died

25 February 2018

Sees

1. 13 September 1987 – 25 February 1997

   Bishop of Mozhaisk

   Vicar of Moscow · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 25 February 1997 – 25 February 2018

   Archbishop of Mozhaisk

   Vicar of Moscow · Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 13 September 1987 by:

• Pimen Izvekov Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1910–1990
• Sergii Petrov Metropolitan of Odessa and Kherson, 1924–1990
• Juvenal Poyarkov Former Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomenskoye, b. 1935
• Job Tyvonyuk Metropolitan of Chelyabinsk and Zlatoust, 1938–2020
• Mefodii Nemtsov Metropolitan of Perm and Kungur, b. 1949
• Evsevii Savvin Metropolitan of Pskov and Porkhov, b. 1939

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 10 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Gregory Chirkov Archbishop of Mozhaisk consecrated 13 September 1987
2. Sergii Petrov Metropolitan of Odessa and Kherson, 1924–1990 consecrated 13 March 1960
3. Boris Vik Metropolitan of Kherson and Odessa, 1906–1965 consecrated 2 April 1944
4. Sergii Stragorodskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1867–1944 consecrated 25 February 1901
5. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
6. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
7. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
8. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
9. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
10. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
11. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 17

• 22 April 1989Anthony Cheremisov Archbishop of Oryol and Bolkhov, 1939–2026
• 23 April 1989George Gryaznov Archbishop of Lyudinovo, 1934–2011
• 5 May 1989Sergii Poletkin Metropolitan of Samara and Tolyattinsk, b. 1951
• 6 March 1994Nestor Sapsai Bishop of Petropavl and Kamchatka, 1931–2004
• 31 January 1999Joseph Balabanov Metropolitan of Ulan-Ude and Buryatia, b. 1954
• 10 August 1999Tikhon Nedosekin Bishop of Vidnoye, b. 1956
• 10 August 2000Diomid Dzyuban Bishop of Anadyr and Chukotka, 1961–2021
• 2 September 2001Alexander Agrikov Metropolitan of Bryansk and Sevsk, b. 1953
• 10 August 2006Roman Gavrilov Bishop of Serpukhov, b. 1957
• 10 October 2010Gennadii Gogolev Bishop of Qaskeleñ, b. 1967
• 11 September 2011Cornelius Sinyayev Metropolitan of Arkhangelsk and Kholmogory, b. 1976
• 18 December 2011Maximilian Klyuyev Metropolitan of Irkutsk and Angarsk, b. 1971
• 1 January 2012Nicholas Pogrebnyak Bishop of Balashikha and Orekhovo-Zuevo, b. 1950
• 22 April 2012Barnabas Baranov Bishop of Karasuk and Ordynskoye, b. 1965
• 12 August 2012Constantine Ostrovskii Metropolitan of Cairo and North Africa, b. 1977
• 6 December 2012Paisii Kuznetsov Bishop of Yaransk and Luzsk, b. 1975
• 6 July 2014Agafangel Daineko Bishop of Norilsk and Turukhansk, b. 1975

Sources

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