Nicholas Kapustin

Life

Born

6 September 1977

Monastic tonsure

9 July 1998

Ordained deacon

19 July 1998

Ordained priest

11 October 1998

Made archimandrite

11 April 2007

Elected bishop

14 June 2011

Consecrated bishop

19 June 2011

Made archbishop

3 September 2017

Made metropolitan

17 August 2020

Sees

1. 19 June 2011 – 3 September 2017

   Bishop of Kremenchuk and Lubny

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 3 September 2017 – 17 August 2020

   Archbishop of Kremenchuk and Lubny

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 17 August 2020 – present

   Metropolitan of Kremenchuk and Lubny

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 19 June 2011 by:

• Vladimir Sabodan Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, 1935–2014
• Mitrofan Yurchuk Metropolitan of Luhansk and Alchevsk, 1962–2021
• Alexander Drabynko Metropolitan of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi and Vishnevoye, b. 1977
• Ephrem Kytsai Metropolitan of Kryvyi Rih and Nikopol, b. 1966
• Philip Osadchenko Metropolitan of Poltava and Myrhorod, b. 1956
• Hilarion Shishkovskii Archbishop of Makariv, 1969–2018
• Anthony Borovik Former Bishop of Ugolskii, b. 1968
• Panteleimon Povoroznyuk Metropolitan of Luhansk and Alchevsk, b. 1973
• Dionisiy Konstantynov Bishop of Shepetivka and Slavuta, b. 1960

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. Nicholas Kapustin Metropolitan of Kremenchuk and Lubny consecrated 19 June 2011
2. Vladimir Sabodan Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, 1935–2014 consecrated 9 July 1966
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

• 6 December 2015Benjamin Pogrebnoi Archbishop of Novi Sanzhary, b. 1979
• 8 December 2019Kallinik Chernyshyov Bishop of Bakhchysarai, b. 1977

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru