Zinovii Korzinkin

Life

Born

19 June 1948

Ordained deacon

29 April 1978

Ordained priest

25 October 1978

Monastic tonsure

22 February 1984

Made archimandrite

1999

Elected bishop

22 March 2011

Consecrated bishop

3 April 2011

Made archbishop

1 February 2014

Made metropolitan

30 March 2014

Sees

1. 3 April 2011 – 1 February 2014

   Bishop of Elista and Kalmykia

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 1 February 2014 – 19 March 2014

   Archbishop of Elista and Kalmykia

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 19 March 2014 – 30 March 2014

   Archbishop of Saransk and Mordovia

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 30 March 2014 – present

   Metropolitan of Saransk and Mordovia

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 3 April 2011 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
• Sergii Fomin Metropolitan of Voronezh and Liski, b. 1949
• Herman Moralin Metropolitan of Kursk and Rylsk, b. 1956
• John Popov Metropolitan of Belgorod and Staryi Oskol, b. 1960
• Justinian Ovchinnikov Archbishop of Elista and Kalmykia, b. 1961
• Zosima Ostapenko Archbishop of Solikamsk and Chusovoi, 1950–2026
• Feognost Guzikov Metropolitan of Kashira, b. 1960
• Merkurii Ivanov Metropolitan of Rostov and Novocherkassk, b. 1964
• Daniel Dorovskikh Metropolitan of Kurgan and Belozersk, b. 1960
• Longin Korchagin Metropolitan of Simbirsk and Novospasskoye, b. 1961

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. Zinovii Korzinkin Metropolitan of Saransk and Mordovia consecrated 3 April 2011
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

• 1 May 2011Herman Kamalov Bishop of Sochi and Tuapse, b. 1968
• 22 May 2011Serapheim Glushakov Bishop of Anadyr and Chukotka, 1969–2020
• 1 September 2012Benjamin Korolyov Bishop of Zheleznogorsk and Lgov, 1965–2020
• 13 December 2012Gedeon Gubka Bishop of Vyksa and Pavlovsk, b. 1962
• 27 January 2013Varlaam Ponomaryov Archbishop of Makhachkala and Derbent, b. 1974
• 3 November 2013Tikhon Bobov Bishop of Ishim and Aromashevo, b. 1954
• 19 August 2014Paisii Yurkov Bishop of Zheleznogorsk and Lgov, b. 1970
• 31 August 2014Victor Sergeyev Bishop of Glazov and Igra, b. 1954
• 21 May 2015Sergii Zyatkov Bishop of Novorossiisk and Gelendzhik, b. 1967
• 1 August 2016Eugene Kulberg Metropolitan of Ekaterinburg and Verkhoturye, b. 1972
• 20 November 2017Ignatii Suranov Bishop of Cherepovets and Belozersk, b. 1978
• 25 December 2022Dionisii Shumilin Bishop of Rossosh and Ostrogozhsk, b. 1979

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata