Savva Lesnykh

Life

Born

28 October 1973

Monastic tonsure

25 March 1999

Ordained deacon

31 May 1999

Ordained priest

7 April 2004

Elected bishop

30 May 2024

Consecrated bishop

21 July 2024

Sees

1. 21 July 2024 – 22 October 2026

   Bishop of Armavir and Labinsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 22 October 2026 – present

   Bishop of Zaraisk

   Vicar of the Patriarch of Moscow · Patriarchate of Moscow · Viceroy of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra

Consecration

Consecrated 21 July 2024 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. Savva Lesnykh Bishop of Zaraisk consecrated 21 July 2024
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

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