John Popov

Life

Born

1 September 1960

Monastic tonsure

30 March 1990

Ordained deacon

4 April 1990

Ordained priest

7 April 1990

Made archimandrite

1993

Elected bishop

23 February 1993 (Synod session of 22-23 февраля 1993)

Consecrated bishop

4 April 1993

Made archbishop

18 February 1999

Made metropolitan

18 July 2012

Sees

1. 4 April 1993 – 18 July 1995

   Bishop of Belgorod

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 18 July 1995 – 18 February 1999

   Bishop of Belgorod and Staryi Oskol

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 18 February 1999 – 18 July 2012

   Archbishop of Belgorod and Staryi Oskol

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 18 July 2012 – present

   Metropolitan of Belgorod and Staryi Oskol

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 4 April 1993 by:

• Aleksii II Ridiger Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1929–2008
• Melkhisedek Lebedev Archbishop of Bryansk and Sevsk, 1927–2016
• Platon Udovenko Metropolitan of Feodosiya and Kerch, b. 1940
• Juvenal Tarasov Former Schema-Metropolitan of Kursk and Rylsk, 1929–2013
• Sergii Fomin Metropolitan of Voronezh and Liski, b. 1949
• Alexander Mogilyov Metropolitan of Astana and Kazakhstan, b. 1957
• Arsenii Epifanov Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Zadonsk, b. 1955
• Victor Pyankov Bishop of Podilsk, b. 1944
• Vincent Morar Metropolitan of Tashkent and Uzbekistan, b. 1953
• Manuel Pavlov Metropolitan of Petrozavodsk and Karelia, 1950–2015
• Varsonofii Sudakov Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, b. 1955
• Elevferii Kozorev Archbishop of Şymkent and Taraz, 1953–2021
• Herman Moralin Metropolitan of Kursk and Rylsk, b. 1956
• Michael Raskovalov Bishop of Kurgan and Shadrinsk, 1953–2008

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. John Popov Metropolitan of Belgorod and Staryi Oskol consecrated 4 April 1993
2. Manuel Pavlov Metropolitan of Petrozavodsk and Karelia, 1950–2015 consecrated 14 August 1990
3. John Snychyov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Ladoga, 1927–1995 consecrated 12 December 1965
4. Manuel Lemeshevskii Metropolitan of Kuibyshev and Syzran, 1884–1968 consecrated 23 September 1923
5. Tikhon Belavin Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1865–1925 consecrated 19 October 1897
6. Palladii Rayev-Pisarev Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1827–1898 consecrated 18 December 1866
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 15

• 4 February 1996Tikhon Stepanov Bishop of Arkhangelsk and Kholmogory, 1963–2010
• 2 September 2001Alexander Agrikov Metropolitan of Bryansk and Sevsk, b. 1953
• 2 June 2008Ieronim Chernyshov Bishop of Oryol and Livny, b. 1966
• 18 November 2008Joseph Maslennikov Metropolitan of Romena and Buryn, b. 1978
• 3 April 2011Zinovii Korzinkin Metropolitan of Saransk and Mordovia, b. 1948
• 18 September 2011Andrew Tarasov Bishop of Rossosh and Ostrogozhsk, b. 1975
• 22 April 2012Barnabas Baranov Bishop of Karasuk and Ordynskoye, b. 1965
• 22 July 2012Sofronii Kitayev Bishop of Gubkin and Graivoron, b. 1978
• 21 August 2012Innocent Vetrov Bishop of Mariinsk and Yurginsk, b. 1973
• 1 September 2012Benjamin Korolyov Bishop of Zheleznogorsk and Lgov, 1965–2020
• 27 January 2013Varlaam Ponomaryov Archbishop of Makhachkala and Derbent, b. 1974
• 23 November 2014Flavian Mitrofanov Bishop of Cherepovets and Belozersk, b. 1975
• 18 November 2017Theophan Danchenkov Bishop of Volzhsk and Sernur, b. 1975
• 18 July 2019Siluan Nikitin Bishop of Petergof, b. 1986
• 20 March 2022Evfimiii Moiseyev Bishop of Lukhovitsy, b. 1972

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

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