Mefodii Nemtsov
Мефодий
Metropolitan of Perm and Kungur · b. 1949
Born Nikolai Fedorovich Nemtsov (Николай Федорович Немцов)
Life
- Born
- 16 February 1949
- Monastic tonsure
- 5 January 1974
- Ordained deacon
- 7 January 1974
- Ordained priest
- 24 April 1974
- Made archimandrite
- 4 April 1977
- Consecrated bishop
- 27 April 1980
- Made archbishop
- 26 July 1985
- Made metropolitan
- 1 April 1988
- Retired
- 16 July 2026
Sees
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27 April 1980 – 1982
Bishop of Irkutsk and Chita
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1982 – 26 July 1985
Bishop of Voronezh and Lipetsk
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26 July 1985 – 1 April 1988
Archbishop of Voronezh and Lipetsk
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1 April 1988 – 2003
Metropolitan of Voronezh and Lipetsk
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2003 – 5 March 2010
Metropolitan of Astana and Almaty
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5 March 2010 – 19 March 2014
Metropolitan of Perm and Solikamsk
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March 2014 – October 2016
Locum tenens of Solikamsk and Chusovoi
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19 March 2014 – 16 July 2026
Metropolitan of Perm and Kungur
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13 April 2021 – 14 April 2024
Locum tenens of Kudymkar and Vereshchagino
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July 2025 – January 2026
Locum tenens of Solikamsk and Chusovoi
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16 July 2026 – present
Former Metropolitan of Perm and Kungur
Consecration
Consecrated 27 April 1980 by:
- Pimen Izvekov Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1910–1990
- Pitirim Nechayev Metropolitan of Volokolamsk and Yuriev, 1926–2003
- Vladimir Sabodan Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, 1935–2014
- Simon Novikov Metropolitan of Ryazan and Kasimov, 1928–2006
- Gleb Smirnov Archbishop of Oryol and Bryansk, 1913–1987
- Serapheim Tikhonov Archbishop of Penza and Kuznetsy, 1935–2000
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.
- Mefodii Nemtsov Metropolitan of Perm and Kungur consecrated 27 April 1980
- Pitirim Nechayev Metropolitan of Volokolamsk and Yuriev, 1926–2003 consecrated 23 May 1963
- Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
- Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
- Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
- Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
- Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
- Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
- Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
- Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
- Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735
Bishops he consecrated 12
- 30 June 1985Vladimir Ikim Metropolitan of Tashkent and Central Asia, b. 1940
- 21 July 1985Nicholas Shkrumko Metropolitan of Izhevsk and Udmurtia, 1927–2015
- 11 January 1987Feofan Galinskii Archbishop of Berlin and Germany, 1954–2017
- 17 May 1987Panteleimon Dolganov Metropolitan of Yaroslavl and Rostov, b. 1941
- 13 September 1987Gregory Chirkov Archbishop of Mozhaisk, 1942–2018
- 21 July 1993Nikon Mironov Bishop of Kudymkar and Vereshchagino, b. 1960
- 12 September 1995Savva Volkov Archbishop of Tiraspol and Dubăsari, b. 1958
- 31 March 1996Nikon Vasin Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Zadonsk, b. 1942
- 8 September 1998Joseph Makedonov Metropolitan of Ivanovo-Voznesenskii and Vichuga, b. 1964
- 21 March 2010Benjamin Tupeko Bishop of Borisov and Maryina Horka, b. 1968
- 25 February 2014Stephen Kavtarashvili Bishop of Tikhoretsk and Korenovsk, b. 1971
- 15 February 2015Fotii Evtikheyev Bishop of Velikii Ustyug and Totma, b. 1962
Sources
Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata
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