Augustine Anisimov

Life

Born

14 January 1945

Ordained deacon

22 May 1990

Ordained priest

2 August 1990

Monastic tonsure

5 September 1993

Made hegumen

1995

Elected bishop

15 March 2012

Made archimandrite

18 March 2012

Consecrated bishop

8 April 2012

Retired

24 August 2023

Sees

1. 8 April 2012 – 24 August 2023

   Bishop of Gorodets and Vetluga

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 24 August 2023 – present

   Former Bishop of Gorodets and Vetluga

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 8 April 2012 by:

• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Juvenal Poyarkov Former Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomenskoye, b. 1935
• George Danilov Metropolitan of Nizhny Novgorod and Arzamas, b. 1964
• Dimitrii Drozdov Archbishop of Vitebsk and Orsha, b. 1953
• Feofilakt Moiseyev Former Bishop of Mytishchi, 1949–2023
• Aristarkh Smirnov Metropolitan of Kemerovo and Prokopievsk, b. 1959
• Sergii Chashin Metropolitan of Singapore and Southeast Asia, b. 1974

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. Augustine Anisimov Bishop of Gorodets and Vetluga consecrated 8 April 2012
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 5

• 22 April 2012Barnabas Baranov Bishop of Karasuk and Ordynskoye, b. 1965
• 1 August 2012Pitirim Tvorogov Bishop of Dushanbe and Tajikistan, b. 1967
• 18 November 2012Basil Danilov Bishop of Kotlas and Velsk, b. 1956
• 17 November 2013Silouan Glazkin Bishop of Kalachinsk and Muromtsevo, b. 1969
• 1 August 2016Eugene Kulberg Metropolitan of Ekaterinburg and Verkhoturye, b. 1972

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata