Vsevolod Ponich

Life

Born

12 November 1961

Ordained deacon

22 January 1989

Ordained priest

18 June 1989

Monastic tonsure

20 November 2003

Elected bishop

5 May 2015

Made archimandrite

10 May 2015

Consecrated bishop

9 July 2015

Sees

1. 9 July 2015 – 23 September 2021

   Bishop of Slavgorod and Kamensk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 23 September 2021 – 11 October 2023

   Bishop of Akhtubinsk and Yenotayevka

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 11 October 2023 – present

   Bishop of Urzhum and Omutninsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 9 July 2015 by:

• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Varsonofii Sudakov Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, b. 1955
• Leo Tserpitskii Metropolitan of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, b. 1946
• Victor Oleinik Metropolitan of Tver and Kashin, b. 1940
• Constantine Goryanov Metropolitan of Petrozavodsk and Karelia, b. 1951
• Ignatii Deputatov Metropolitan of Saratov and Volsk, b. 1977
• Sergii Ivannikov Metropolitan of Barnaul and Altai, b. 1957
• Ambrose Ermakov Metropolitan of Tver and Kashin, b. 1970
• Ignatii Punin Bishop of Minusinsk and Kuraginsk, b. 1973
• Marcel Vetrov Bishop of Tsarskoye Selo, 1952–2019
• Sergii Chashin Metropolitan of Singapore and Southeast Asia, b. 1974
• Nazarii Lavrinenko Bishop of Kuznetsk and Nikolsk, b. 1952
• Benjamin Likhomanov Bishop of Rybinsk and Romanov-Borisoglebsk, b. 1952
• Mstislav Dyachina Bishop of Tikhvin and Lodeinoye Pole, b. 1967
• Varlaam Ponomaryov Archbishop of Makhachkala and Derbent, b. 1974
• Mitrofan Osyak Bishop of Gatchina and Luga, b. 1972
• Roman Kornev Bishop of Rubtsovsk and Aleisk, b. 1972
• Ignatii Buzin Bishop of Armavir and Labinsk, b. 1973
• Flavian Mitrofanov Bishop of Cherepovets and Belozersk, b. 1975
• Serapion Dunai Bishop of Yalutorovsk, b. 1967

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. Vsevolod Ponich Bishop of Urzhum and Omutninsk consecrated 9 July 2015
2. Marcel Vetrov Bishop of Tsarskoye Selo, 1952–2019 consecrated 27 September 2006
3. Vladimir Kotlyarov Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1929–2022 consecrated 30 December 1962
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 1

• 12 July 2015Nicholas Krivenko Bishop of Severobaikalsk and Sosnovo-Ozerskoye, b. 1971

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata