Vitalii Kuzhevatov

Life

Born

24 December 1966

Made metropolitan

2000

Ordained deacon

14 January 2000

Ordained priest

30 January 2000

Monastic tonsure

19 March 2000

Consecrated bishop

7 May 2000

Sees

1. 7 May 2000 – 2000

   Bishop of Orekhovo-Zuyevo

   Apostolic Orthodox Church

2. 2000 – 2007

   Metropolitan of Kolomna and Russia

   Apostolic Orthodox Church

3. 2007 – present

   Metropolitan of Moscow and All Russia

   Apostolic Orthodox Church

Consecration

Consecrated 7 May 2000 by:

• Stephen Linitskii Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Mozhaisk, b. 1934
• Kiriak Temertsidi/Timirtsidi Metropolitan of the Southern Russian Autonomous Metropolitical Region, b. 1942
• Sergii Sarkisov Metropolitan of Orekhovo-Zuyevo, b. 1937
• Valentine Astafiev Bishop of Zelenograd

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 14 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Vitalii Kuzhevatov Metropolitan of Moscow and All Russia consecrated 7 May 2000
2. Stephen Linitskii Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Mozhaisk, b. 1934 consecrated 17 December 1996
3. John Modzalevskii Archbishop of Uman, b. 1970 consecrated 17 June 1996
4. Roman Blashchuk/Balashchuk Metropolitan of Vinnytsya and Bratslav, b. 1953 consecrated 22 May 1990
5. John Bodnarchuk Metropolitan of Lutsk and Volyn, 1929–1994 consecrated 23 October 1977
6. Nicholas Yurik Metropolitan of Lviv and Ternopil, 1910–1984 consecrated 31 October 1965
7. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
8. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
9. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
10. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
11. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
12. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
13. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
14. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
15. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 7

• 7 January 2002Andrew Tregub Metropolitan of Kyiv, cons. 2002
• 14 September 2002Aleksii Skrypnikov-Dardaki Archbishop of Sofia, b. 1972
• 25 October 2003Dionysios Agapov Metropolitan of Siberia and the Far East, cons. 2003
• 26 May 2006Arsenii Zubakov Bishop of Vienna and the Riviera, b. 1963
• 9 September 2006Sergii Savinykh Bishop of Bern and Western Europe, b. 1957
• 15 September 2007Vladimir Mocharnik Bishop of Montenegro and Transcarpathia, b. 1965
• 14 June 2009Ermogen Volin-Danilov Bishop of Odessa and Novorossiisk, b. 1966