Gregory Petrov

Life

Born

26 December 1974

Ordained deacon

11 July 2004

Ordained priest

12 July 2004

Monastic tonsure

3 May 2009

Elected bishop

26 December 2013 (Synod session of 25-26 декабря 2013)

Made archimandrite

9 January 2014

Consecrated bishop

16 March 2014

Made metropolitan

3 January 2019

Sees

1. 16 March 2014 – 28 December 2018

   Bishop of Troitsk and Yuzhnouralsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 28 December 2018 – 3 January 2019

   Bishop of Chelyabinsk and Miass

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 3 January 2019 – 15 April 2021

   Metropolitan of Chelyabinsk and Miass

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 26 December 2019 – 15 April 2021

   Locum tenens of Troitsk and Yuzhnouralsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 15 April 2021 – 11 October 2023

   Metropolitan of Ekaterinodar and Kuban

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 11 October 2023 – present

   Metropolitan of Voskresensk

   Vicar of the Patriarch of Moscow · Patriarchate of Moscow · Chancellor of the Moscow Patriarchate

Consecration

Consecrated 16 March 2014 by:

• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Varsonofii Sudakov Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, b. 1955
• Arsenii Epifanov Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Zadonsk, b. 1955
• Cyril Nakonechnii Metropolitan of Kazan and Tatarstan, b. 1961
• Feofan Ashurkov Metropolitan of Kazan and Tatarstan, 1947–2020
• Ignatii Punin Bishop of Minusinsk and Kuraginsk, b. 1973
• Nicholas Chashin Archbishop of Salekhard and Novo-Urengoisk, b. 1972
• Benjamin Likhomanov Bishop of Rybinsk and Romanov-Borisoglebsk, b. 1952
• Innocent Vasetskii Bishop of Sormovo, b. 1977

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. Gregory Petrov Metropolitan of Voskresensk consecrated 16 March 2014
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

Bishops he consecrated 2

• 23 November 2014Flavian Mitrofanov Bishop of Cherepovets and Belozersk, b. 1975
• 3 January 2017Vincent Bryleyev Bishop of Tara and Tyukalinsk, b. 1979

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata