Tikhon Stepanov

Life

Born

2 March 1963

Monastic tonsure

28 August 1991

Ordained deacon

29 August 1991

Ordained priest

1 September 1991

Elected bishop

27 December 1995

Made archimandrite

1 January 1996

Consecrated bishop

4 February 1996

Died

20 October 2010

Sees

1. 4 February 1996 – 20 October 2010

   Bishop of Arkhangelsk and Kholmogory

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 4 February 1996 by:

• Aleksii II Ridiger Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1929–2008
• Juvenal Poyarkov Former Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomenskoye, b. 1935
• Sergii Fomin Metropolitan of Voronezh and Liski, b. 1949
• Alexander Mogilyov Metropolitan of Astana and Kazakhstan, b. 1957
• Panteleimon Dolganov Metropolitan of Yaroslavl and Rostov, b. 1941
• Arsenii Epifanov Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Zadonsk, b. 1955
• Manuel Pavlov Metropolitan of Petrozavodsk and Karelia, 1950–2015
• John Popov Metropolitan of Belgorod and Staryi Oskol, b. 1960
• Eugene Reshetnikov Archbishop of Vereya, b. 1957
• Savva Volkov Archbishop of Tiraspol and Dubăsari, b. 1958

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. Tikhon Stepanov Bishop of Arkhangelsk and Kholmogory consecrated 4 February 1996
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 3

• 27 September 2006Marcel Vetrov Bishop of Tsarskoye Selo, 1952–2019
• 21 August 2010Panteleimon Shatov Bishop of Vereya, b. 1950
• 22 August 2010Benjamin Likhomanov Bishop of Rybinsk and Romanov-Borisoglebsk, b. 1952

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata