Ioannikii Kobzev

Life

Born

7 February 1938

Monastic tonsure

16 November 1964

Ordained deacon

24 November 1964

Ordained priest

7 April 1969

Made archimandrite

1983

Consecrated bishop

13 December 1988

Made archbishop

7 April 1993

Made metropolitan

19 June 2002

Retired

20 July 2012

Died

17 October 2020

Sees

1. 13 December 1988 – 19 February 1990

   Bishop of Slovyansk

   Vicar of Odessa · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 19 February 1990 – 6 September 1991

   Bishop of Donetsk and Luhansk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 6 September 1991 – 7 April 1993

   Bishop of Luhansk and Starobilsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 7 April 1993 – 19 June 2002

   Archbishop of Luhansk and Starobilsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 19 June 2002 – 31 May 2007

   Metropolitan of Luhansk and Starobilsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 31 May 2007 – 20 July 2012

   Metropolitan of Luhansk and Alchevsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

7. 20 July 2012 – 17 October 2020

   Former Metropolitan of Luhansk and Alchevsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 13 December 1988 by:

• Filaret Denysenko Patriarch of Kyiv and All Rus'-Ukraine, b. 1929

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. Ioannikii Kobzev Metropolitan of Luhansk and Alchevsk consecrated 13 December 1988
2. Filaret Denysenko Patriarch of Kyiv and All Rus'-Ukraine, b. 1929 consecrated 4 February 1962
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 16

• 14 December 1990Yakiv Panchuk Metropolitan of Lutsk and Volyn, 1931–2004
• 6 October 1991Alipii Pogrebnyak Archbishop of Krasnyi Lyman, 1945–2021
• 20 September 1992Augustine Markevich Metropolitan of Bila Tserkva and Bohuslav, b. 1952
• 1 August 1994Serapheim Zaliznitskii Metropolitan of Ivano-Frankivsk and Kolomyya, b. 1953
• 30 July 2006Meletii Yegorenko Metropolitan of Chernivtsi (Cernăuţi) and Bukovina, b. 1962
• 19 August 2006Aleksii Grokha Metropolitan of Balta and Ananiv, b. 1972
• 4 June 2007Nikodim Horenko Metropolitan of Zhytomyr, b. 1972
• 10 June 2007Irinei Semko Metropolitan of Nizhyn and Pryluky, 1963–2017
• 11 June 2007Vladimir Melnik Metropolitan of Volodymyr-Volynskyi, b. 1968
• 19 October 2007Panteleimon Lugovoi Metropolitan of Uman and Zvenigorod, b. 1967
• 19 December 2007Alexander Drabynko Metropolitan of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi and Vishnevoye, b. 1977
• 23 December 2007Theodore Mamasuyev Metropolitan of Mukachevo and Uzhhorod, b. 1966
• 24 September 2008Panteleimon Povoroznyuk Metropolitan of Luhansk and Alchevsk, b. 1973
• 22 November 2008Vladimir Orachov Metropolitan of Kamensk and Tsarychanka, b. 1973
• 29 November 2009Tikhon Zhilyakov Bishop of Kremenchuk and Lubny, 1968–2011
• 13 December 2009Evlogii Patsan Archbishop of Novomoskovsk, b. 1970

Sources

• patriarchia.ru
• wikidata.org

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata