Mefodii Zaitsev

Life

Born

25 October 1978

Ordained deacon

10 August 1997

Monastic tonsure

19 March 1998

Ordained priest

2 May 1999

Elected bishop

6 June 2012

Made archimandrite

14 June 2012

Consecrated bishop

11 July 2012

Sees

1. 11 July 2012 – present

   Bishop of Almetievsk and Bugulma

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 11 July 2012 by:

• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Varsonofii Sudakov Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, b. 1955
• Anastasii Metkin Former Metropolitan of Simbirsk and Novospasskoye, b. 1944
• Manuel Pavlov Metropolitan of Petrozavodsk and Karelia, 1950–2015
• Feognost Guzikov Metropolitan of Kashira, b. 1960
• Pankratii Zherdev Archbishop of Troitskii, b. 1955
• 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. Mefodii Zaitsev Bishop of Almetievsk and Bugulma consecrated 11 July 2012
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 4

• 18 November 2012Basil Danilov Bishop of Kotlas and Velsk, b. 1956
• 3 November 2013Tikhon Bobov Bishop of Ishim and Aromashevo, b. 1954
• 18 May 2015Parmen Shchipelev Bishop of Chistopol and Nizhnekamsk, b. 1956
• 7 July 2019Ignatii Grigoriev Bishop of Guriev, b. 1967

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata