Serapheim Melkonyan

Life

Born

29 December 1961

Monastic tonsure

6 December 1990

Ordained deacon

10 January 1991

Ordained priest

9 April 1991

Elected bishop

3 April 2001

Made archimandrite

18 April 2001

Consecrated bishop

19 May 2001

Made archbishop

20 November 2016

Made metropolitan

28 August 2023

Sees

1. 19 May 2001 – 31 March 2009

   Bishop of the Baltics

   Vicar of Smolensk · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 31 March 2009 – 21 October 2016

   Bishop of the Baltics

   Vicar of Kaliningrad · Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 21 October 2016 – 20 November 2016

   Bishop of Kaliningrad and the Baltics

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 20 November 2016 – 24 August 2023

   Archbishop of Kaliningrad and the Baltics

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 24 August 2023 – 28 August 2023

   Archbishop of Baltiysk and Svetlogorsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow · Patriarchal vicegerent of the Kaliningrad Metropolis

6. 28 August 2023 – present

   Metropolitan of Baltiysk and Svetlogorsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow · Patriarchal vicegerent of the Kaliningrad Metropolis

Consecration

Consecrated 19 May 2001 by:

• Aleksii II Ridiger Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1929–2008
• Juvenal Poyarkov Former Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomenskoye, b. 1935
• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Sergii Fomin Metropolitan of Voronezh and Liski, b. 1949
• Pitirim Nechayev Metropolitan of Volokolamsk and Yuriev, 1926–2003
• Arsenii Epifanov Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Zadonsk, b. 1955
• Gurii Kuzmenko Archbishop of Zhytomyr and Novohrad-Volynskyi, b. 1964
• Aleksii Frolov Archbishop of Kostroma and Halych, 1947–2013
• Savva Volkov Archbishop of Tiraspol and Dubăsari, b. 1958
• Feofan Ashurkov Metropolitan of Kazan and Tatarstan, 1947–2020

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 10 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Serapheim Melkonyan Metropolitan of Baltiysk and Svetlogorsk consecrated 19 May 2001
2. Pitirim Nechayev Metropolitan of Volokolamsk and Yuriev, 1926–2003 consecrated 23 May 1963
3. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
4. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
5. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
6. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
7. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
8. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
9. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
10. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
11. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 14

• 14 January 2004Mark Golovkov Metropolitan of Korsun and Western Europe, b. 1964
• 27 September 2004Zosima Davydov Bishop of Yakutsk and Lensk, 1963–2010
• 7 July 2005Ignatii Punin Bishop of Minusinsk and Kuraginsk, b. 1973
• 12 October 2011John Pavlikhin Archbishop of Magadan and Sinegorsk, b. 1974
• 14 October 2011Benjamin Kirillov Bishop of Kronstadt, b. 1979
• 23 December 2012Daniel Kuznetsov Bishop of Guriev, b. 1980
• 17 November 2013Silouan Glazkin Bishop of Kalachinsk and Muromtsevo, b. 1969
• 19 August 2014Paisii Yurkov Bishop of Zheleznogorsk and Lgov, b. 1970
• 15 November 2015Matthew Andreyev Bishop of Sourozh, b. 1971
• 27 November 2016Nicholas Degtyaryov Bishop of Chernyakovsk and Slavsk, b. 1963
• 4 June 2017Serapheim Amelchenkov Bishop of Istra, b. 1985
• 11 July 2019Boris Baranov Bishop of Kostomuksha and Kem, b. 1964
• 18 July 2019Siluan Nikitin Bishop of Petergof, b. 1986
• 8 September 2019Porfirii Shutov Bishop of Ozyori, b. 1965

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata