Filaret Gusev

Life

Born

14 August 1975

Ordained deacon

15 April 2002

Ordained priest

1 August 2002

Monastic tonsure

7 December 2003

Made archimandrite

1 January 2012

Elected bishop

16 March 2012

Consecrated bishop

24 March 2012

Retired

30 October 2025

Sees

1. 24 March 2012 – 9 July 2019

   Bishop of Kansk and Boguchany

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 9 July 2019 – 30 October 2025

   Bishop of Dalneye Konstantinovo

   Vicar of Nizhny Novgorod · Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 30 October 2025 – present

   Former Bishop of Dalneye Konstantinovo

   Vicar of Nizhny Novgorod · Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 24 March 2012 by:

• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Varsonofii Sudakov Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, b. 1955
• Job Tyvonyuk Metropolitan of Chelyabinsk and Zlatoust, 1938–2020
• Panteleimon Kutovoi Metropolitan of Krasnoyarsk and Achinsk, b. 1955
• Arsenii Epifanov Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Zadonsk, b. 1955
• Sergii Chashin Metropolitan of Singapore and Southeast Asia, b. 1974
• Nikodim Chibisov Metropolitan of Ryazan and Mikhailovka, b. 1969

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. Filaret Gusev Bishop of Dalneye Konstantinovo consecrated 24 March 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 3

• 12 September 2012Serapheim Domnin Metropolitan of Penza and Nizhny Lomov, b. 1977
• 22 June 2014Nikanor Anfilatov Archbishop of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk and the Kurile Islands, b. 1970
• 6 July 2014Agafangel Daineko Bishop of Norilsk and Turukhansk, b. 1975

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata