Sergii Fomin

Life

Born

24 August 1949

Monastic tonsure

26 August 1973

Ordained deacon

21 September 1973

Ordained priest

22 September 1973

Made archimandrite

1981

Consecrated bishop

30 January 1983

Made archbishop

9 September 1988

Made metropolitan

19 February 1999

Retired

24 October 2024

Sees

1. 30 January 1983 – 9 September 1988

   Bishop of Solnechnogorsk

   Vicar of Moscow · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 9 September 1988 – 19 February 1999

   Archbishop of Solnechnogorsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 19 February 1999 – 7 May 2003

   Metropolitan of Solnechnogorsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 7 May 2003 – 26 December 2013

   Metropolitan of Voronezh and Borisogleb

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 2013 – 2016

   Locum tenens of Borisogleb

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 26 December 2013 – 24 October 2024

   Metropolitan of Voronezh and Liski

   Patriarchate of Moscow

7. 24 October 2024 – present

   Former Metropolitan of Voronezh and Liski

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 30 January 1983 by:

• Pimen Izvekov Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1910–1990
• Aleksii II Ridiger Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1929–2008
• Filaret Vakhromeyev Metropolitan of Minsk and Slutsk, 1935–2021
• Juvenal Poyarkov Former Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomenskoye, b. 1935
• Pitirim Nechayev Metropolitan of Volokolamsk and Yuriev, 1926–2003
• Platon Udovenko Metropolitan of Feodosiya and Kerch, b. 1940
• Job Tyvonyuk Metropolitan of Chelyabinsk and Zlatoust, 1938–2020

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 10 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Sergii Fomin Metropolitan of Voronezh and Liski consecrated 30 January 1983
2. Pitirim Nechayev Metropolitan of Volokolamsk and Yuriev, 1926–2003 consecrated 23 May 1963
3. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
4. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
5. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
6. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
7. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
8. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
9. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
10. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
11. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 57

• 1 April 1984Evsevii Savvin Metropolitan of Pskov and Porkhov, b. 1939
• 30 June 1985Vladimir Ikim Metropolitan of Tashkent and Central Asia, b. 1940
• 21 July 1985Nicholas Shkrumko Metropolitan of Izhevsk and Udmurtia, 1927–2015
• 26 January 1992Innocent Vasiliev Metropolitan of Vilnius and Lithuania, b. 1947
• 22 March 1992Paul Ponomaryov Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomna, b. 1952
• 21 September 1992Benjamin Pushkar Former Metropolitan of Vladivostok and Primorye, b. 1938
• 25 October 1992Jonah Karpukhin Archbishop of Astrakhan and Kamyzyak, 1941–2020
• 28 March 1993Herman Moralin Metropolitan of Kursk and Rylsk, b. 1956
• 3 April 1993Michael Raskovalov Bishop of Kurgan and Shadrinsk, 1953–2008
• 4 April 1993John Popov Metropolitan of Belgorod and Staryi Oskol, b. 1960
• 10 April 1993Maximilian Lazarenko Archbishop of Pesochenskii and Yukhnov, b. 1950
• 21 July 1993Nikon Mironov Bishop of Kudymkar and Vereshchagino, b. 1960
• 3 October 1993Simon Getya Metropolitan of Oryol and Bolkhov, b. 1949
• 26 March 1994Nektarii Korobov Bishop of Saratov and Volsk, 1942–1994
• 16 April 1994Eugene Reshetnikov Archbishop of Vereya, b. 1957
• 19 August 1995Aleksii Frolov Archbishop of Kostroma and Halych, 1947–2013
• 3 September 1995Mark Tuzhikov Metropolitan of Vyatka and Sloboda, b. 1961
• 12 September 1995Savva Volkov Archbishop of Tiraspol and Dubăsari, b. 1958
• 10 December 1995Sergii Sokolov Bishop of Novosibirsk and Berdsk, 1951–2000
• 19 December 1995Pitirim Volochkov Archbishop of Syktyvkar and Komi-Zyryanskii, 1961–2025
• 24 December 1995Zosima Ostapenko Archbishop of Solikamsk and Chusovoi, 1950–2026
• 4 February 1996Tikhon Stepanov Bishop of Arkhangelsk and Kholmogory, 1963–2010
• 31 March 1996Nikon Vasin Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Zadonsk, b. 1942
• 1 August 1997Jonathan Tsvetkov Archbishop of Abakan and Khakassia, b. 1962
• 15 February 1998Anatolii Aksyonov Bishop of Qostanai and Rudnyi, b. 1958
• 15 March 1998Cyril Nakonechnii Metropolitan of Kazan and Tatarstan, b. 1961
• 8 September 1998Joseph Makedonov Metropolitan of Ivanovo-Voznesenskii and Vichuga, b. 1964
• 12 September 1998Anatolii Botnari Archbishop of Cahul and Comrat, b. 1950
• 8 November 1998Dorimedont Cecan Bishop of Edineţ and Briceni, 1961–2006
• 14 January 1999Alexander Ishchein Archbishop of Baku and Azerbaijan, 1952–2021
• 31 January 1999Joseph Balabanov Metropolitan of Ulan-Ude and Buryatia, b. 1954
• 10 August 1999Tikhon Nedosekin Bishop of Vidnoye, b. 1956
• 15 January 2000Serapheim Tsujie Archbishop of Tokyo, Metropolitan of All Japan, b. 1951
• 30 January 2000Evstafii Evdokimov Archbishop of Alexandrovsk and Yuriev-Polskii, b. 1951
• 6 February 2000Merkurii Ivanov Metropolitan of Rostov and Novocherkassk, b. 1964
• 10 August 2000Diomid Dzyuban Bishop of Anadyr and Chukotka, 1961–2021
• 26 November 2000Feofan Ashurkov Metropolitan of Kazan and Tatarstan, 1947–2020
• 19 May 2001Serapheim Melkonyan Metropolitan of Baltiysk and Svetlogorsk, b. 1961
• 2 September 2001Alexander Agrikov Metropolitan of Bryansk and Sevsk, b. 1953
• 11 November 2001Daniel Dorovskikh Metropolitan of Kurgan and Belozersk, b. 1960
• 20 January 2002Maksim Dmitriev Bishop of Yelets and Lebedyansk, b. 1961
• 31 March 2002Feognost Guzikov Metropolitan of Kashira, b. 1960
• 14 April 2002Irinarkh Grezin Bishop of Ramenskoye, 1951–2024
• 20 April 2002Feofilakt Moiseyev Former Bishop of Mytishchi, 1949–2023
• 21 April 2002Feodosii Vasnev Metropolitan of Tambov and Rasskazovo, b. 1961
• 2 February 2003George Danilov Metropolitan of Nizhny Novgorod and Arzamas, b. 1964
• 14 August 2003Benjamin Zaritskii Metropolitan of Orenburg and Saraktash, 1953–2023
• 19 August 2003Longin Korchagin Metropolitan of Simbirsk and Novospasskoye, b. 1961
• 30 July 2006Meletii Yegorenko Metropolitan of Chernivtsi (Cernăuţi) and Bukovina, b. 1962
• 11 March 2007Marcel Mihăescu Archbishop of Bălţi and Făleşti, b. 1959
• 3 April 2011Zinovii Korzinkin Metropolitan of Saransk and Mordovia, b. 1948
• 18 September 2011Andrew Tarasov Bishop of Rossosh and Ostrogozhsk, b. 1975
• 22 July 2012Sofronii Kitayev Bishop of Gubkin and Graivoron, b. 1978
• 22 November 2015Savva Nikiforov Bishop of Valuiki and Alekseyevka, b. 1974
• 19 December 2015Sergii Kopylov Bishop of Borisogleb and Buturlinovka, b. 1983
• 20 November 2017Ignatii Suranov Bishop of Cherepovets and Belozersk, b. 1978
• 25 December 2022Dionisii Shumilin Bishop of Rossosh and Ostrogozhsk, b. 1979

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata