Innocent Vasiliev

Life

Born

9 October 1947

Ordained deacon

May 1981

Ordained priest

August 1981

Monastic tonsure

15 January 1992

Made archimandrite

19 January 1992

Consecrated bishop

26 January 1992

Made archbishop

25 February 2002

Made metropolitan

20 November 2016

Sees

1. 26 January 1992 – 28 December 1993

   Bishop of Khabarovsk and Blagoveshchensk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 28 December 1993 – 18 July 1995

   Bishop of Khabarovsk and Priamure

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 18 July 1995 – 11 October 1996

   Bishop of Dmitrov

   Vicar of Moscow · Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 11 October 1996 – 6 October 1999

   Bishop of Chita and Zabaikal

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 6 October 1999 – 25 February 2002

   Bishop of Korsun

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 25 February 2002 – 24 December 2010

   Archbishop of Korsun

   Patriarchate of Moscow

7. 24 December 2010 – 20 November 2016

   Archbishop of Vilnius and Lithuania

   Patriarchate of Moscow

8. 20 November 2016 – present

   Metropolitan of Vilnius and Lithuania

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 26 January 1992 by:

• Aleksii II Ridiger Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1929–2008
• Juvenal Poyarkov Former Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomenskoye, b. 1935
• Vladimir Sabodan Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, 1935–2014
• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Chrysostom Martishkin Metropolitan of Vilnius and All Lithuania, 1934–2025
• Valentine Mishchuk Metropolitan of Orenburg and Buzuluk, b. 1940
• Sergii Fomin Metropolitan of Voronezh and Liski, b. 1949
• Vadim Lazebnyi Metropolitan of Yaroslavl and Rostov, b. 1954
• Arsenii Epifanov Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Zadonsk, b. 1955
• Victor Pyankov Bishop of Podilsk, b. 1944

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 Vasiliev Metropolitan of Vilnius and Lithuania consecrated 26 January 1992
2. Aleksii II Ridiger Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1929–2008 consecrated 3 September 1961
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 16

• 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
• 9 September 1999Peter Arihara Bishop of Yokohama, d. 2000
• 14 November 1999Daniel Nushiro Archbishop of Tokyo, Metropolitan of All Japan, 1938–2023
• 14 January 2004Mark Golovkov Metropolitan of Korsun and Western Europe, b. 1964
• 30 January 2005Savvatii Antonov Metropolitan of Cheboksary and Chuvash, b. 1968
• 26 November 2006Elisei Ganaba Archbishop of the Hague and the Netherlands, b. 1962
• 5 September 2010Nestor Sirotenko Metropolitan of Stupino, b. 1974
• 12 October 2011John Pavlikhin Archbishop of Magadan and Sinegorsk, b. 1974
• 14 October 2011Benjamin Kirillov Bishop of Kronstadt, b. 1979
• 22 May 2012Mstislav Dyachina Bishop of Tikhvin and Lodeinoye Pole, b. 1967
• 5 February 2017Sergii Telikh Bishop of Maardu, b. 1966
• 23 August 2020Ambrose Fedukovich Bishop of Trakai, b. 1977

Sources

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