Aleksii Kutepov

Life

Born

10 May 1953

Ordained deacon

15 February 1975

Ordained priest

22 June 1975

Monastic tonsure

7 September 1975

Made archimandrite

20 November 1975

Consecrated bishop

1 December 1988

Made archbishop

30 December 1988

Made metropolitan

20 April 2009

Sees

1. 1 December 1988 – 30 December 1988

   Bishop of Zaraisk

   Vicar of Moscow · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 30 December 1988 – 20 July 1990

   Archbishop of Zaraisk

   Vicar of Moscow · Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 20 July 1990 – 31 January 1991

   Archbishop of Almaty and Kazakhstan

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 31 January 1991 – 31 March 1999

   Archbishop of Almaty and Semipalatinsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 31 March 1999 – 7 October 2002

   Archbishop of Astana and Almaty

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 7 October 2002 – 20 April 2009

   Archbishop of Tula and Belyov

   Patriarchate of Moscow

7. 20 April 2009 – 27 December 2011

   Metropolitan of Tula and Belyov

   Patriarchate of Moscow

8. 27 December 2011 – present

   Metropolitan of Tula and Yefremov

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 1 December 1988 by:

• Pimen Izvekov Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1910–1990
• Filaret Denysenko Patriarch of Kyiv and All Rus'-Ukraine, b. 1929
• 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
• Vladimir Sabodan Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, 1935–2014
• Nikodim Rusnak Metropolitan of Kharkiv and Bohodukhiv, 1921–2011
• Serapion Fadeyev Metropolitan of Tula and Belyov, 1933–1999
• Leontii Bondar Metropolitan of Orenburg and Buzuluk, 1913–1999
• Vladimir Kotlyarov Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1929–2022
• Job Tyvonyuk Metropolitan of Chelyabinsk and Zlatoust, 1938–2020
• Agafangel Savvin Metropolitan of Odessa and Izmail, b. 1938
• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Valentine Mishchuk Metropolitan of Orenburg and Buzuluk, b. 1940
• Serapheim Tikhonov Archbishop of Penza and Kuznetsy, 1935–2000

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. Aleksii Kutepov Metropolitan of Tula and Yefremov consecrated 1 December 1988
2. Leontii Bondar Metropolitan of Orenburg and Buzuluk, 1913–1999 consecrated 10 August 1956
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 14

• 22 April 1989Anthony Cheremisov Archbishop of Oryol and Bolkhov, 1939–2026
• 23 April 1989George Gryaznov Archbishop of Lyudinovo, 1934–2011
• 5 May 1989Sergii Poletkin Metropolitan of Samara and Tolyattinsk, b. 1951
• 29 July 1991Ierofei Sobolev Bishop of Balakhna, 1936–2001
• 15 March 1998Cyril Nakonechnii Metropolitan of Kazan and Tatarstan, b. 1961
• 19 August 2003Longin Korchagin Metropolitan of Simbirsk and Novospasskoye, b. 1961
• 10 August 2006Roman Gavrilov Bishop of Serpukhov, b. 1957
• 28 May 2009Nazarii Lavrinenko Bishop of Kuznetsk and Nikolsk, b. 1952
• 20 February 2011Sebastian Osokin Archbishop of Qarağandy and Şahtinsk, b. 1961
• 22 April 2012Barnabas Baranov Bishop of Karasuk and Ordynskoye, b. 1965
• 2 May 2012Nil Sychev Bishop of Murom and Vyazniki, b. 1964
• 15 February 2015Fotii Evtikheyev Bishop of Velikii Ustyug and Totma, b. 1962
• 24 July 2019Basil Kulakov Metropolitan of Ekaterinodar and Kuban, b. 1971
• 20 March 2022Evfimiii Moiseyev Bishop of Lukhovitsy, b. 1972

Sources

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