Anthony Cheremisov

Life

Born

6 November 1939

Monastic tonsure

7 April 1971

Ordained deacon

14 April 1971

Ordained priest

4 November 1972

Made archimandrite

24 March 1987

Consecrated bishop

22 April 1989

Made archbishop

19 February 1999

Made metropolitan

28 August 2014

Retired

26 February 2019

Died

23 April 2026

Sees

1. 22 April 1989 – 25 January 1990

   Bishop of Vilnius and Lithuania

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 25 January 1990 – 20 July 1990

   Bishop of Tobolsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 20 July 1990 – 19 February 1999

   Bishop of Krasnoyarsk and Yeniseisk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 19 February 1999 – 30 May 2011

   Archbishop of Krasnoyarsk and Yeniseisk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 17 July 1999 – 29 December 1999

   Locum tenens of Abakan and Kyzyl

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 30 May 2011 – 6 October 2011

   Archbishop of Krasnoyarsk and Achinsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

7. 6 October 2011 – 25 July 2014

   Archbishop of Oryol and Livny

   Patriarchate of Moscow

8. 25 July 2014 – 28 August 2014

   Archbishop of Oryol and Bolkhov

   Patriarchate of Moscow

9. 28 August 2014 – 26 February 2019

   Metropolitan of Oryol and Bolkhov

   Patriarchate of Moscow

10. 26 February 2019 – 23 April 2026

    Former Metropolitan of Oryol and Bolkhov

    Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 22 April 1989 by:

• Juvenal Poyarkov Former Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomenskoye, b. 1935
• Pitirim Nechayev Metropolitan of Volokolamsk and Yuriev, 1926–2003
• Maksim Krokha Archbishop of Mahilioŭ and Mstsislaw, 1928–2002
• Valentine Mishchuk Metropolitan of Orenburg and Buzuluk, b. 1940
• Aleksii Kutepov Metropolitan of Tula and Yefremov, b. 1953
• Gregory Chirkov Archbishop of Mozhaisk, 1942–2018

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. Anthony Cheremisov Archbishop of Oryol and Bolkhov consecrated 22 April 1989
2. Pitirim Nechayev Metropolitan of Volokolamsk and Yuriev, 1926–2003 consecrated 23 May 1963
3. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
4. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
5. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
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 6

• 23 April 1989George Gryaznov Archbishop of Lyudinovo, 1934–2011
• 21 July 1989Vladimir Cantarean Metropolitan of Chișinău and Moldova, b. 1952
• 12 September 1995Savva Volkov Archbishop of Tiraspol and Dubăsari, b. 1958
• 3 September 2011Serapheim Kuzminov Bishop of Belyov and Aleksin, b. 1977
• 9 September 2014Nektarii Seleznyov Bishop of Livny and Maloarkhangelsk, b. 1974
• 9 April 2017Aleksii Zanochkin Bishop of Vienna and Austria, b. 1975

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata