Mark Golovkov

Life

Born

31 March 1964

Monastic tonsure

19 October 1990

Ordained deacon

21 November 1990

Ordained priest

7 January 1991

Made archimandrite

3 May 2000

Consecrated bishop

14 January 2004

Made archbishop

1 February 2010

Made metropolitan

4 November 2015

Sees

1. 14 January 2004 – 1 February 2010

   Bishop of Yegoriev

   Vicar of Moscow · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 1 February 2010 – 22 October 2015

   Archbishop of Yegoriev

   Vicar of Moscow · Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 22 October 2015 – 4 November 2015

   Archbishop of Ryazan and Mikhailovka

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 4 November 2015 – 12 March 2026

   Metropolitan of Ryazan and Mikhailovka

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 30 August 2019 – 7 June 2022

   Locum tenens of Budapest and Hungary

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 27 December 2024 – present

   Locum tenens of Budapest and Hungary

   Patriarchate of Moscow

7. 8 November 2025 (order published 2025-11-08) – 12 March 2026

   Locum tenens of Korsun and Western Europe

   Exarch of Western Europe · Patriarchate of Moscow

8. 12 March 2026 – present

   Metropolitan of Korsun and Western Europe

   Exarch of Western Europe · Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 14 January 2004 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
• Clement Kapalin Metropolitan of Kaluga and Borovsk, b. 1949
• Arsenii Epifanov Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Zadonsk, b. 1955
• Innocent Vasiliev Metropolitan of Vilnius and Lithuania, b. 1947
• Eugene Reshetnikov Archbishop of Vereya, b. 1957
• Aleksii Frolov Archbishop of Kostroma and Halych, 1947–2013
• Savva Volkov Archbishop of Tiraspol and Dubăsari, b. 1958
• Feofan Ashurkov Metropolitan of Kazan and Tatarstan, 1947–2020
• Serapheim Melkonyan Metropolitan of Baltiysk and Svetlogorsk, b. 1961
• Alexander Agrikov Metropolitan of Bryansk and Sevsk, b. 1953
• Feognost Guzikov Metropolitan of Kashira, b. 1960
• George Danilov Metropolitan of Nizhny Novgorod and Arzamas, b. 1964
• Benjamin Zaritskii Metropolitan of Orenburg and Saraktash, 1953–2023
• Longin Korchagin Metropolitan of Simbirsk and Novospasskoye, b. 1961

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. Mark Golovkov Metropolitan of Korsun and Western Europe consecrated 14 January 2004
2. Alexander Agrikov Metropolitan of Bryansk and Sevsk, b. 1953 consecrated 2 September 2001
3. Herman Swaiko Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada, 1931–2022 consecrated 10 February 1973
4. Silvester Haruns Archbishop of Montréal and Canada, 1914–2000 consecrated 27 April 1952
5. Vladimir Tikhonitskii Metropolitan of Białystok, 1873–1959 consecrated 3 June 1907
6. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
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 26

• 27 September 2004Zosima Davydov Bishop of Yakutsk and Lensk, 1963–2010
• 2 June 2005Pankratii Zherdev Archbishop of Troitskii, b. 1955
• 7 July 2005Ignatii Punin Bishop of Minusinsk and Kuraginsk, b. 1973
• 19 August 2006Alexander Matryonin Bishop of Daugavpils and Rēzekne, b. 1973
• 21 July 2009Lazar Gurkin Bishop of Narva and Prichudye, b. 1969
• 10 April 2011Artemii Snigur Metropolitan of Khabarovsk and Priamurskii, b. 1962
• 17 April 2011Nicholas Chashin Archbishop of Salekhard and Novo-Urengoisk, b. 1972
• 1 May 2011Herman Kamalov Bishop of Sochi and Tuapse, b. 1968
• 27 September 2011Nicholas Subbotin Bishop of Salavat and Kumertau, b. 1973
• 30 October 2011Feofan Kim Archbishop of Korea, b. 1976
• 2 December 2011Vladimir Samokhin Metropolitan of Donetsk and Mariupol, b. 1979
• 17 December 2011Tarasii Vladimirov Bishop of Balashov and Rtishchevo, b. 1974
• 19 December 2011Pakhomii Bruskov Bishop of Borovichi and Pestovo, b. 1976
• 17 March 2012Feodosii Chashchin Metropolitan of Samara and Novokuibyshevsk, b. 1973
• 22 April 2012Barnabas Baranov Bishop of Karasuk and Ordynskoye, b. 1965
• 17 March 2013Isidore Tupikin Metropolitan of Smolensk and Dorogobuzh, b. 1974
• 17 June 2013Leonid Gorbachev Archbishop of Vladikavkaz and the Alans, b. 1968
• 1 August 2014John Roshchin Metropolitan of Vienna and Austria, b. 1974
• 15 November 2015Matthew Andreyev Bishop of Sourozh, b. 1971
• 27 March 2016John Sichyovskii Bishop of Jelgava, b. 1978
• 19 August 2017Feodorit Tikhonov Bishop of Venyov, b. 1980
• 18 November 2017Theophan Danchenkov Bishop of Volzhsk and Sernur, b. 1975
• 20 November 2017Ignatii Suranov Bishop of Cherepovets and Belozersk, b. 1978
• 18 November 2018Basil Danilov Bishop of Kasimov and Sasovo, b. 1978
• 18 July 2019Siluan Nikitin Bishop of Petergof, b. 1986
• 19 December 2022Constantine Manuilov Bishop of Bratsk and Ust-Ilimsk, b. 1968

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata