Theodore Belkov

Life

Born

9 May 1960

Ordained deacon

19 September 2005

Ordained priest

10 December 2006

Monastic tonsure

8 April 2012

Elected bishop

4 October 2012

Made archimandrite

14 October 2012

Consecrated bishop

2 December 2012

Sees

1. 2 December 2012 – 12 March 2024

   Bishop of Alatyr and Poretskoye

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 12 March 2024 – 15 May 2025

   Bishop of Berdyansk and Primorye

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 15 May 2025 – present

   Bishop of Pokrovsk and Novouzensk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 2 December 2012 by:

• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Varsonofii Sudakov Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, b. 1955
• Hilarion Alfeyev Metropolitan of Budapest and Hungary, b. 1966
• Herman Timofeyev Metropolitan of Volgograd, b. 1937
• Barnabas Kedrov Metropolitan of Cheboksary and Chuvash, 1931–2020
• Arsenii Epifanov Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Zadonsk, b. 1955
• Mitrofan Yurchuk Metropolitan of Luhansk and Alchevsk, 1962–2021
• Elisei Ganaba Archbishop of the Hague and the Netherlands, b. 1962
• Arkadii Afonin Former Bishop of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk and the Kurile Islands, 1943–2021
• Peter Karpusyuk Bishop of Dyatlava, 1959–2020
• Evstafii Evdokimov Archbishop of Alexandrovsk and Yuriev-Polskii, b. 1951
• Feofilakt Moiseyev Former Bishop of Mytishchi, 1949–2023
• Ignatii Punin Bishop of Minusinsk and Kuraginsk, b. 1973
• Sergii Chashin Metropolitan of Singapore and Southeast Asia, b. 1974
• Tikhon Zaitsev Archbishop of Ruza, b. 1967
• Benjamin Kirillov Bishop of Kronstadt, b. 1979
• Stephen Gordeyev Bishop of Kanash and Belaya Volozhka, b. 1966

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. Theodore Belkov Bishop of Pokrovsk and Novouzensk consecrated 2 December 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 2

• 3 November 2013Tikhon Bobov Bishop of Ishim and Aromashevo, b. 1954
• 20 November 2017Ignatii Suranov Bishop of Cherepovets and Belozersk, b. 1978

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata