Stephen Kavtarashvili

Life

Born

16 May 1971

Monastic tonsure

22 April 1994

Ordained deacon

26 April 1994

Ordained priest

25 December 2001

Elected bishop

26 December 2013 (Synod session of 25-26 декабря 2013)

Made archimandrite

31 December 2013

Consecrated bishop

25 February 2014

Sees

1. 25 February 2014 – present

   Bishop of Tikhoretsk and Korenovsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 25 February 2014 by:

• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Varsonofii Sudakov Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, b. 1955
• Isidore Kirichenko Metropolitan of Ekaterinodar and Kuban, 1941–2020
• Mefodii Nemtsov Metropolitan of Perm and Kungur, b. 1949
• Arsenii Epifanov Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Zadonsk, b. 1955
• Cyril Pokrovskii Metropolitan of Stavropol and Nevinnomyssk, b. 1963
• Zosima Ostapenko Archbishop of Solikamsk and Chusovoi, 1950–2026
• Feofilakt Kuryanov Archbishop of Pyatigorsk and Cherkessk, b. 1974
• Tikhon Lobkovskii Archbishop of Maikop and Adygea, b. 1968
• Sergii Chashin Metropolitan of Singapore and Southeast Asia, b. 1974
• Herman Kamalov Bishop of Sochi and Tuapse, b. 1968
• Savva Mikheyev Metropolitan of Vologda and Kirillov, b. 1980
• Aleksii Antipov Bishop of Buzuluk and Sorochinsk, b. 1956
• Varlaam Ponomaryov Archbishop of Makhachkala and Derbent, b. 1974
• Feognost Dmitriev Bishop of Serov and Krasnoturinsk, b. 1965

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. Stephen Kavtarashvili Bishop of Tikhoretsk and Korenovsk consecrated 25 February 2014
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 1

• 13 April 2014Ignatii Buzin Bishop of Armavir and Labinsk, b. 1973

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata