Feofan Kim

Life

Born

19 January 1976

Monastic tonsure

14 August 1997

Ordained deacon

17 August 1997

Ordained priest

19 August 1997

Elected bishop

5 October 2011

Made archimandrite

25 October 2011

Consecrated bishop

30 October 2011

Made archbishop

4 December 2017

Sees

1. 30 October 2011 – 4 December 2017

   Bishop of Kyzyl and Tuva

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 4 December 2017 – 4 April 2019

   Archbishop of Kyzyl and Tuva

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 4 April 2019 – present

   Archbishop of Korea

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 30 October 2011 by:

• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Juvenal Poyarkov Former Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomenskoye, b. 1935
• Varsonofii Sudakov Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, b. 1955
• Ambrose Zografos Metropolitan of Korea, b. 1960
• Arsenii Epifanov Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Zadonsk, b. 1955
• Jonathan Tsvetkov Archbishop of Abakan and Khakassia, b. 1962
• Mark Golovkov Metropolitan of Korsun and Western Europe, b. 1964
• Sergii Chashin Metropolitan of Singapore and Southeast Asia, b. 1974
• Savva Mikheyev Metropolitan of Vologda and Kirillov, b. 1980

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. Feofan Kim Archbishop of Korea consecrated 30 October 2011
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

• 24 July 2019Basil Kulakov Metropolitan of Ekaterinodar and Kuban, b. 1971
• 1 September 2020Pitirim Dondenko Bishop of Jakarta, b. 1979