Ieronim Chernyshov

Life

Born

12 July 1966

Monastic tonsure

1990

Ordained deacon

1990

Ordained priest

1990

Made archimandrite

2003

Elected bishop

15 April 2008

Consecrated bishop

2 June 2008

Retired

27 May 2009

Sees

1. 2 June 2008 – 27 May 2009

   Bishop of Oryol and Livny

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 27 May 2009 – present

   Former Bishop of Oryol and Livny

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 2 June 2008 by:

• Aleksii II Ridiger Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1929–2008
• 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
• Paul Ponomaryov Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomna, b. 1952
• John Popov Metropolitan of Belgorod and Staryi Oskol, b. 1960
• Aleksii Frolov Archbishop of Kostroma and Halych, 1947–2013
• Justinian Ovchinnikov Archbishop of Elista and Kalmykia, b. 1961
• Savva Volkov Archbishop of Tiraspol and Dubăsari, b. 1958
• Alexander Agrikov Metropolitan of Bryansk and Sevsk, b. 1953
• Feognost Guzikov Metropolitan of Kashira, b. 1960
• Benjamin Zaritskii Metropolitan of Orenburg and Saraktash, 1953–2023
• Ambrose Ermakov Metropolitan of Tver and Kashin, b. 1970
• Nikodim Chibisov Metropolitan of Ryazan and Mikhailovka, b. 1969

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. Ieronim Chernyshov Bishop of Oryol and Livny consecrated 2 June 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 3

• 22 April 2012Barnabas Baranov Bishop of Karasuk and Ordynskoye, b. 1965
• 2 December 2015Paramon Golubka Bishop of Gorodets and Vetluga, b. 1977
• 2 December 2016Matthew Samknulov Bishop of Akhtubinsk and Yenotayevka, b. 1971

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata