Innocent Vasetskii

Life

Born

16 April 1977

Ordained deacon

7 January 1998

Monastic tonsure

25 January 1998

Ordained priest

7 April 2001

Elected bishop

26 July 2012

Made archimandrite

26 August 2012

Consecrated bishop

11 October 2012

Sees

1. 11 October 2012 – 30 August 2019

   Bishop of Magnitogorsk and Verkhneuralsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 30 August 2019 – 27 May 2022

   Bishop of Yelabuga

   Vicar of Kazan · Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 27 May 2022 – present

   Bishop of Sormovo

   Vicar of Nizhny Novgorod · Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 11 October 2012 by:

• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Varsonofii Sudakov Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, b. 1955
• Feofan Ashurkov Metropolitan of Kazan and Tatarstan, 1947–2020
• Feofilakt Kuryanov Archbishop of Pyatigorsk and Cherkessk, b. 1974
• Sergii Chashin Metropolitan of Singapore and Southeast Asia, b. 1974

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. Innocent Vasetskii Bishop of Sormovo consecrated 11 October 2012
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 3

• 3 November 2013Tikhon Bobov Bishop of Ishim and Aromashevo, b. 1954
• 16 March 2014Gregory Petrov Metropolitan of Voskresensk, b. 1974
• 3 January 2017Vincent Bryleyev Bishop of Tara and Tyukalinsk, b. 1979

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata