Sergii Moiseyenko

Life

Born

22 May 1958

Ordained priest

1994

Monastic tonsure

1995

Consecrated bishop

19 October 1997

Made archbishop

28 June 1998

Made metropolitan

11 December 1999

Sees

1. 19 October 1997 – 28 June 1998

   Bishop of Saint Petersburg

   Russian True Orthodox Church (Amvrosii)

2. 28 June 1998 – 27 November 1999

   Archbishop of Saint Petersburg

   Russian True Orthodox Church (Amvrosii)

3. 27 November 1999 – 11 December 1999

   Archbishop of Saint Petersburg and Staraya Russa

   True Orthodox Church in Russia (Rafail)

4. 11 December 1999 – date unknown

   Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Staraya Russa

   True Orthodox Church in Russia (Rafail)

5. date unknown – 1 November 2002

   Metropolitan of Tsarskoye Selo

   Vicar of Moscow · True Orthodox Church in Russia (Rafail)

6. 1 November 2002 – 19 July 2009

   Metropolitan of Podgorica and Duklja

   Montenegran Orthodox Church

7. 19 July 2009 – 12 November 2010

   Metropolitan of Central and South America

   True Orthodox Church in Russia (Rafail)

8. 12 November 2010 – 28 October 2011

   Metropolitan of Podgorica and Montenegro

   Exarch of the Balkans · True Orthodox Church in Russia (Rafail)

9. 28 October 2011 – 24 March 2013

   Metropolitan of No See

   True Orthodox Church in Russia (Rafail)

10. 24 March 2013 – present

    Metropolitan of Mesembria

    Bulgarian True Orthodox Church

Consecration

Consecrated 19 October 1997 by:

• Ambrose Katamadze Archbishop of Nikortsminda, 1941–2008
• Raphael Prokopiev-Motovilov Archbishop of Moscow, Metropolitan of All Russia, b. 1947

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 15 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Sergii Moiseyenko Metropolitan of Mesembria consecrated 19 October 1997
2. Raphael Prokopiev-Motovilov Archbishop of Moscow, Metropolitan of All Russia, b. 1947 consecrated 1996
3. Stephen Linitskii Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Mozhaisk, b. 1934 consecrated 17 December 1996
4. John Modzalevskii Archbishop of Uman, b. 1970 consecrated 17 June 1996
5. Roman Blashchuk/Balashchuk Metropolitan of Vinnytsya and Bratslav, b. 1953 consecrated 22 May 1990
6. John Bodnarchuk Metropolitan of Lutsk and Volyn, 1929–1994 consecrated 23 October 1977
7. Nicholas Yurik Metropolitan of Lviv and Ternopil, 1910–1984 consecrated 31 October 1965
8. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
9. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
10. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
11. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
12. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
13. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
14. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
15. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
16. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 3

• 30 June 1998Didim Nesterov Archbishop of Saint Petersburg, b. 1944
• 23 January 1999Philip Filipchenko Bishop of Nizhny Novgorod, cons. 1999
• Peter Tsarkov-Skuz Bishop of Diakletianopol