Tikhon Zaitsev

Life

Born

13 April 1967

Monastic tonsure

25 March 1993

Ordained deacon

7 April 1993

Ordained priest

6 January 1996

Made archimandrite

8 October 2006

Elected bishop

31 March 2009

Consecrated bishop

26 April 2009

Made archbishop

1 February 2018

Sees

1. 26 April 2009 – 1 February 2018

   Bishop of Podolsk

   Vicar of the Patriarch of Moscow · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 22 October 2015 – 28 December 2017

   Locum tenens of Vienna and Austria

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 22 October 2015 – 28 December 2017

   Locum tenens of Budapest and Hungary

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 28 December 2017 – present

   Locum tenens of Berlin and Germany

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 1 February 2018 – 13 April 2021

   Archbishop of Podolsk

   Vicar of the Patriarch of Moscow · Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 13 April 2021 – present

   Archbishop of Ruza

   Vicar of Moscow · Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 26 April 2009 by:

• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Jonah Paffhausen Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada, b. 1959
• Hilarion Alfeyev Metropolitan of Budapest and Hungary, b. 1966
• Seraphim Storheim Archbishop of Ottawa and Canada, b. 1946
• Eugene Reshetnikov Archbishop of Vereya, b. 1957
• Aleksii Frolov Archbishop of Kostroma and Halych, 1947–2013
• Feognost Guzikov Metropolitan of Kashira, b. 1960
• Anthony Pakanich Metropolitan of Boryspil and Brovary, b. 1967
• Savva Volkov Archbishop of Tiraspol and Dubăsari, b. 1958
• Alexander Agrikov Metropolitan of Bryansk and Sevsk, b. 1953
• Ambrose Ermakov Metropolitan of Tver and Kashin, b. 1970
• Ignatii Punin Bishop of Minusinsk and Kuraginsk, b. 1973
• Elisei Ganaba Archbishop of the Hague and the Netherlands, b. 1962
• Sergii Chashin Metropolitan of Singapore and Southeast Asia, b. 1974

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 Zaitsev Archbishop of Ruza consecrated 26 April 2009
2. Alexander Agrikov Metropolitan of Bryansk and Sevsk, b. 1953 consecrated 2 September 2001
3. Herman Swaiko Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada, 1931–2022 consecrated 10 February 1973
4. Silvester Haruns Archbishop of Montréal and Canada, 1914–2000 consecrated 27 April 1952
5. Vladimir Tikhonitskii Metropolitan of Białystok, 1873–1959 consecrated 3 June 1907
6. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
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 29

• 21 July 2009Lazar Gurkin Bishop of Narva and Prichudye, b. 1969
• 29 November 2009Cyril Pokrovskii Metropolitan of Stavropol and Nevinnomyssk, b. 1963
• 21 August 2010Panteleimon Shatov Bishop of Vereya, b. 1950
• 22 August 2010Benjamin Likhomanov Bishop of Rybinsk and Romanov-Borisoglebsk, b. 1952
• 17 April 2011Nicholas Chashin Archbishop of Salekhard and Novo-Urengoisk, b. 1972
• 21 August 2011Ignatii Deputatov Metropolitan of Saratov and Volsk, b. 1977
• 2 December 2011Vladimir Samokhin Metropolitan of Donetsk and Mariupol, b. 1979
• 25 February 2012Iakov Tislenko Bishop of Naryan-Mar and Mezen, b. 1960
• 4 March 2012Ambrose Munteanu Bishop of Bogorodsk, b. 1973
• 25 March 2012Aleksii Antipov Bishop of Buzuluk and Sorochinsk, b. 1956
• 31 March 2012Elisei Fomkin Bishop of Uryupinsk and Novoanninskii, b. 1963
• 22 April 2012Barnabas Baranov Bishop of Karasuk and Ordynskoye, b. 1965
• 2 December 2012Theodore Belkov Bishop of Pokrovsk and Novouzensk, b. 1960
• 17 March 2013Isidore Tupikin Metropolitan of Smolensk and Dorogobuzh, b. 1974
• 23 March 2013Mitrofan Osyak Bishop of Gatchina and Luga, b. 1972
• 13 June 2013Sergii Bulatnikov Bishop of Velikie Luki and Nevel, b. 1950
• 17 June 2013Leonid Gorbachev Archbishop of Vladikavkaz and the Alans, b. 1968
• 10 November 2013Kallistrat Romanenko Archbishop of Bezhetsk and Udomlya, b. 1974
• 29 May 2014Ieronim Crețu Bishop of Dacia Felix, b. 1959
• 2 December 2014Paul Timofeyenkov Bishop of Molodechno and Stolbtsy, b. 1963
• 3 January 2015Anthony Doronin Archbishop of Hrodna and Vaŭkavysk, b. 1980
• 22 February 2015Dimitrii Eliseyev Metropolitan of Chita and Petrovsk-Zabaikal, b. 1961
• 28 June 2015Serapion Dunai Bishop of Yalutorovsk, b. 1967
• 1 September 2015Vladimir Novikov Bishop of Klintsy and Trubchevsk, b. 1958
• 27 March 2016John Sichyovskii Bishop of Jelgava, b. 1978
• 2 December 2016Matthew Samknulov Bishop of Akhtubinsk and Yenotayevka, b. 1971
• 15 February 2017Aleksii Eliseyev Bishop of Halych and Makariv, b. 1969
• 9 April 2017Aleksii Zanochkin Bishop of Vienna and Austria, b. 1975
• 20 November 2017Ignatii Suranov Bishop of Cherepovets and Belozersk, b. 1978

Sources

• en.wikipedia.org
• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata