Leontii Kozlov

Life

Born

25 September 1970

Monastic tonsure

21 April 2000

Ordained deacon

26 April 2000

Ordained priest

9 March 2003

Elected bishop

30 August 2019

Made archimandrite

31 August 2019

Consecrated bishop

12 September 2019

Made metropolitan

2 December 2024

Sees

1. 12 September 2019 – 24 October 2024

   Bishop of Syzran and Shigony

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 24 October 2024 – 2 December 2024

   Bishop of Voronezh and Liski

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 2 December 2024 – present

   Metropolitan of Voronezh and Liski

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 12 September 2019 by:

• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Hilarion Alfeyev Metropolitan of Budapest and Hungary, b. 1966
• Savva Mikheyev Metropolitan of Vologda and Kirillov, b. 1980
• Sergii Poletkin Metropolitan of Samara and Tolyattinsk, b. 1951
• Cyril Nakonechnii Metropolitan of Kazan and Tatarstan, b. 1961
• Leonid Gorbachev Archbishop of Vladikavkaz and the Alans, b. 1968
• Nikifor Khoteyev Bishop of Otradny and Pokhvistnevo, b. 1975
• Sofronii Balandin Bishop of Kinel and Bezenchuk, b. 1973
• Pitirim Tvorogov Bishop of Dushanbe and Tajikistan, b. 1967
• Nestor Lyuberanskii Bishop of Tolyatti and Zhiguli, b. 1975
• Thomas Mosolov Archbishop of Odintsovo and Krasnogorsk, b. 1978
• Eugene Kulberg Metropolitan of Ekaterinburg and Verkhoturye, b. 1972
• Leonid Soldatov Bishop of Argentina and South America, b. 1984
• Savva Tutunov Archbishop of Zelenograd, b. 1978
• Aleksii Polikarpov Bishop of Solnechnogorsk, b. 1948

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. Leontii Kozlov Metropolitan of Voronezh and Liski consecrated 12 September 2019
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

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata