Elisei Ganaba

Life

Born

1 August 1962

Monastic tonsure

17 November 1985

Ordained deacon

22 November 1985

Ordained priest

18 January 1986

Made archimandrite

27 April 1997

Elected bishop

6 October 2006

Consecrated bishop

26 November 2006

Made archbishop

1 February 2010

Sees

1. 26 November 2006 – 27 December 2007

   Bishop of Bogorodsk

   Vicar of Korsun · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 27 December 2007 – 1 February 2010

   Bishop of Sourozh

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 1 February 2010 – 28 December 2017

   Archbishop of Sourozh

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 28 December 2017 – present

   Archbishop of the Hague and the Netherlands

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 26 November 2006 by:

• Aleksii II Ridiger Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1929–2008
• Juvenal Poyarkov Former Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomenskoye, b. 1935
• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Clement Kapalin Metropolitan of Kaluga and Borovsk, b. 1949
• Anatolii Kuznetsov Archbishop of Kerch, 1930–2024
• Feofan Galinskii Archbishop of Berlin and Germany, 1954–2017
• Arsenii Epifanov Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Zadonsk, b. 1955
• Innocent Vasiliev Metropolitan of Vilnius and Lithuania, b. 1947
• Nephon Saykali Metropolitan of Philippopolis (Chehba), cons. 1988
• Hilarion Alfeyev Metropolitan of Budapest and Hungary, b. 1966
• Feofan Ashurkov Metropolitan of Kazan and Tatarstan, 1947–2020
• Alexander Agrikov Metropolitan of Bryansk and Sevsk, b. 1953
• Feognost Guzikov Metropolitan of Kashira, b. 1960
• Anthony Pantelić Bishop of Moravica, b. 1970
• Feodosii Vasnev Metropolitan of Tambov and Rasskazovo, b. 1961
• Ambrose Ermakov Metropolitan of Tver and Kashin, b. 1970

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. Elisei Ganaba Archbishop of the Hague and the Netherlands consecrated 26 November 2006
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 5

• 26 April 2009Tikhon Zaitsev Archbishop of Ruza, b. 1967
• 21 July 2009Lazar Gurkin Bishop of Narva and Prichudye, b. 1969
• 2 December 2012Theodore Belkov Bishop of Pokrovsk and Novouzensk, b. 1960
• 23 November 2014Flavian Mitrofanov Bishop of Cherepovets and Belozersk, b. 1975
• 20 November 2017Ignatii Suranov Bishop of Cherepovets and Belozersk, b. 1978

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata