Luke Volchkov

Life

Born

27 April 1971

Monastic tonsure

21 May 1997

Ordained deacon

31 August 1997

Ordained priest

21 December 1997

Elected bishop

28 December 2011

Made archimandrite

19 January 2012

Consecrated bishop

10 March 2012

Sees

1. 10 March 2012 – 16 May 2023

   Bishop of Iskitim and Cherepanovo

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 16 May 2023 – 12 March 2024

   Bishop of Bronnitsy

   Vicar of Moscow · Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 12 March 2024 – present

   Bishop of Birobidzhan and Kuldur

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 10 March 2012 by:

• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Varsonofii Sudakov Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, b. 1955
• Tikhon Emelyanov Metropolitan of Vladimir and Suzdal, b. 1948
• Eugene Reshetnikov Archbishop of Vereya, b. 1957
• Feognost Guzikov Metropolitan of Kashira, b. 1960
• Feofilakt Moiseyev Former Bishop of Mytishchi, 1949–2023
• Sergii Chashin Metropolitan of Singapore and Southeast Asia, b. 1974
• Sebastian Osokin Archbishop of Qarağandy and Şahtinsk, b. 1961
• Artemii Snigur Metropolitan of Khabarovsk and Priamurskii, b. 1962
• Nicholas Chashin Archbishop of Salekhard and Novo-Urengoisk, b. 1972
• Gurii Fyodorov Bishop of Arseniev and Dalnegorsk, b. 1960

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. Luke Volchkov Bishop of Birobidzhan and Kuldur consecrated 10 March 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 6

• 11 March 2012Philip Novikov Metropolitan of Syktyvkar and Komi-Zyryanskii, b. 1973
• 17 March 2012Feodosii Chashchin Metropolitan of Samara and Novokuibyshevsk, b. 1973
• 1 July 2012Nikon Fomin Metropolitan of Astrakhan and Kamyzyak, b. 1963
• 3 January 2016Matthew Kopylov Metropolitan of Pskov and Porkhov, b. 1979
• 8 January 2016Paul Grigoriev Metropolitan of Vladivostok and Primorye, b. 1974
• 14 August 2016Theodore Malakhanov Archbishop of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskii, b. 1978

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata