George Danilov

Life

Born

14 August 1964

Monastic tonsure

22 December 1989

Ordained deacon

9 October 1990

Ordained priest

9 April 1991

Elected bishop

26 December 2002

Consecrated bishop

2 February 2003

Made archbishop

24 February 2006

Made metropolitan

18 March 2012

Sees

1. 2 February 2003 – 24 February 2006

   Bishop of Nizhny Novgorod and Arzamas

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 24 February 2006 – 18 March 2012

   Archbishop of Nizhny Novgorod and Arzamas

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 18 March 2012 – present

   Metropolitan of Nizhny Novgorod and Arzamas

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 2 February 2003 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
• Sergii Fomin Metropolitan of Voronezh and Liski, b. 1949
• Pitirim Nechayev Metropolitan of Volokolamsk and Yuriev, 1926–2003
• Barnabas Kedrov Metropolitan of Cheboksary and Chuvash, 1931–2020
• Onufrii Berezovskii Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, b. 1944
• Dimitrii Drozdov Archbishop of Vitebsk and Orsha, b. 1953
• Arsenii Epifanov Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Zadonsk, b. 1955
• Aristarkh Stankevich Archbishop of Homieĺ and Zhlobin, 1941–2012
• Eugene Reshetnikov Archbishop of Vereya, b. 1957
• Aleksii Frolov Archbishop of Kostroma and Halych, 1947–2013
• Cyril Nakonechnii Metropolitan of Kazan and Tatarstan, b. 1961
• Feofan Ashurkov Metropolitan of Kazan and Tatarstan, 1947–2020
• Alexander Agrikov Metropolitan of Bryansk and Sevsk, b. 1953
• Feofilakt Moiseyev Former Bishop of Mytishchi, 1949–2023
• Feodosii Vasnev Metropolitan of Tambov and Rasskazovo, b. 1961

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 10 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. George Danilov Metropolitan of Nizhny Novgorod and Arzamas consecrated 2 February 2003
2. Pitirim Nechayev Metropolitan of Volokolamsk and Yuriev, 1926–2003 consecrated 23 May 1963
3. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
4. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
5. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
6. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
7. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
8. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
9. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
10. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
11. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 21

• 19 August 2003Longin Korchagin Metropolitan of Simbirsk and Novospasskoye, b. 1961
• 14 January 2004Mark Golovkov Metropolitan of Korsun and Western Europe, b. 1964
• 30 January 2005Savvatii Antonov Metropolitan of Cheboksary and Chuvash, b. 1968
• 2 June 2005Pankratii Zherdev Archbishop of Troitskii, b. 1955
• 20 August 2006Aristarkh Smirnov Metropolitan of Kemerovo and Prokopievsk, b. 1959
• 22 April 2007Serapheim Belonozhko Bishop of Babruysk and Bykhaw, b. 1973
• 29 November 2009Cyril Pokrovskii Metropolitan of Stavropol and Nevinnomyssk, b. 1963
• 1 August 2010Iliya Bykov Bishop of Balakhna, b. 1954
• 23 January 2011Tikhon Dorovskikh Metropolitan of Oryol and Bolkhov, b. 1959
• 18 March 2012Sergii Ivannikov Metropolitan of Barnaul and Altai, b. 1957
• 8 April 2012Augustine Anisimov Bishop of Gorodets and Vetluga, b. 1945
• 22 April 2012Barnabas Baranov Bishop of Karasuk and Ordynskoye, b. 1965
• 1 August 2012Pitirim Tvorogov Bishop of Dushanbe and Tajikistan, b. 1967
• 18 November 2012Basil Danilov Bishop of Kotlas and Velsk, b. 1956
• 25 November 2012Filaret Gavrin Bishop of Chistopol and Nizhnekamsk, b. 1973
• 27 January 2013Varlaam Ponomaryov Archbishop of Makhachkala and Derbent, b. 1974
• 17 November 2013Silouan Glazkin Bishop of Kalachinsk and Muromtsevo, b. 1969
• 21 May 2015Sergii Zyatkov Bishop of Novorossiisk and Gelendzhik, b. 1967
• 1 August 2016Eugene Kulberg Metropolitan of Ekaterinburg and Verkhoturye, b. 1972
• 3 June 2018Feoktist Igumnov Bishop of Pereslavl and Uglich, b. 1977
• 18 July 2019Siluan Nikitin Bishop of Petergof, b. 1986

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata