Varlaam Ponomaryov

Life

Born

22 June 1974

Monastic tonsure

17 July 1996

Ordained deacon

15 September 1996

Ordained priest

27 September 1996

Made hegumen

1 May 2006

Elected bishop

26 December 2012

Made archimandrite

2 January 2013

Consecrated bishop

27 January 2013

Made archbishop

4 December 2017

Sees

1. 27 January 2013 – 4 December 2017

   Bishop of Makhachkala and Grozny

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 4 December 2017 – 20 March 2025

   Archbishop of Makhachkala and Grozny

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 20 March 2025 – present

   Archbishop of Makhachkala and Derbent

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 27 January 2013 by:

• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Juvenal Poyarkov Former Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomenskoye, b. 1935
• Alexander Mogilyov Metropolitan of Astana and Kazakhstan, b. 1957
• Varsonofii Sudakov Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, b. 1955
• Victor Oleinik Metropolitan of Tver and Kashin, b. 1940
• John Popov Metropolitan of Belgorod and Staryi Oskol, b. 1960
• Cyril Nakonechnii Metropolitan of Kazan and Tatarstan, b. 1961
• Ignatii Pologrudov Metropolitan of Argentina and South America, b. 1956
• Merkurii Ivanov Metropolitan of Rostov and Novocherkassk, b. 1964
• Feofan Ashurkov Metropolitan of Kazan and Tatarstan, 1947–2020
• Feodosii Vasnev Metropolitan of Tambov and Rasskazovo, b. 1961
• George Danilov Metropolitan of Nizhny Novgorod and Arzamas, b. 1964
• Cyril Pokrovskii Metropolitan of Stavropol and Nevinnomyssk, b. 1963
• Anatolii Kuznetsov Archbishop of Kerch, 1930–2024
• Dimitrii Drozdov Archbishop of Vitebsk and Orsha, b. 1953
• Evlogii Smirnov Metropolitan of Vladimir and Suzdal, 1937–2020
• Eugene Reshetnikov Archbishop of Vereya, b. 1957
• Zosima Ostapenko Archbishop of Solikamsk and Chusovoi, 1950–2026
• Michael Donskov Archbishop of Meudon, b. 1943
• Ambrose Ermakov Metropolitan of Tver and Kashin, b. 1970
• Feofilakt Kuryanov Archbishop of Pyatigorsk and Cherkessk, b. 1974
• Sergii Chashin Metropolitan of Singapore and Southeast Asia, b. 1974
• Lazar Gurkin Bishop of Narva and Prichudye, b. 1969
• Zinovii Korzinkin Metropolitan of Saransk and Mordovia, b. 1948
• Paul Fokin Metropolitan of Khanty-Mansiysk and Surgut, b. 1956
• Constantine Ostrovskii Metropolitan of Cairo and North Africa, b. 1977

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. Varlaam Ponomaryov Archbishop of Makhachkala and Derbent consecrated 27 January 2013
2. Feodosii Vasnev Metropolitan of Tambov and Rasskazovo, b. 1961 consecrated 21 April 2002
3. Pitirim Nechayev Metropolitan of Volokolamsk and Yuriev, 1926–2003 consecrated 23 May 1963
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

• 3 November 2013Tikhon Bobov Bishop of Ishim and Aromashevo, b. 1954
• 25 February 2014Stephen Kavtarashvili Bishop of Tikhoretsk and Korenovsk, b. 1971
• 9 July 2015Vsevolod Ponich Bishop of Urzhum and Omutninsk, b. 1961

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata