Nikandr Pilishin

Life

Born

9 September 1986

Monastic tonsure

3 April 2015

Ordained deacon

8 April 2015

Ordained priest

4 December 2016

Elected bishop

11 October 2023

Consecrated bishop

18 October 2023

Made metropolitan

24 March 2024

Sees

1. 18 October 2023 – 24 March 2024

   Bishop of Naro-Fominsk

   Vicar of the Patriarch of Moscow · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 24 March 2024 – 27 December 2024

   Metropolitan of Naro-Fominsk

   Vicar of the Patriarch of Moscow · Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 27 December 2024 – present

   Metropolitan of Vladimir and Suzdal

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 27 December 2024 – 20 March 2025

   Locum tenens of Alexandrovsk and Yuriev-Polskii

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 18 October 2023 by:

• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946

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. Nikandr Pilishin Metropolitan of Vladimir and Suzdal consecrated 18 October 2023
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

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru