Thomas Demchuk

Life

Born

9 March 1983

Ordained deacon

22 January 2009

Monastic tonsure

10 April 2009

Ordained priest

27 February 2011

Elected bishop

4 May 2017

Made archimandrite

10 May 2017

Consecrated bishop

2 July 2017

Retired

15 May 2025

Sees

1. 2 July 2017 – 14 July 2018

   Bishop of Gdov

   Vicar of Pskov · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 14 July 2018 – 26 February 2019

   Bishop of Urzhum and Omutninsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 26 February 2019 – 25 August 2020

   Bishop of Bronnitsy

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 25 August 2020 – 13 April 2021

   Bishop of Sergiev Posad

   Vicar of the Patriarch of Moscow · Patriarchate of Moscow · Viceroy of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra

5. 13 April 2021 – 24 August 2023

   Bishop of Sergiev Posad and Dmitrov

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 24 August 2023 – 15 May 2025

   Bishop of Pokrovsk and Novouzensk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

7. 15 May 2025 – present

   Former Bishop of Pokrovsk and Novouzensk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 2 July 2017 by:

• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Varsonofii Sudakov Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, b. 1955
• Feognost Guzikov Metropolitan of Kashira, b. 1960
• Sergii Chashin Metropolitan of Singapore and Southeast Asia, b. 1974
• Feofilakt Moiseyev Former Bishop of Mytishchi, 1949–2023
• Sergii Bulatnikov Bishop of Velikie Luki and Nevel, b. 1950
• Paramon Golubka Bishop of Gorodets and Vetluga, b. 1977

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. Thomas Demchuk Bishop of Pokrovsk and Novouzensk consecrated 2 July 2017
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 5

• 1 September 2019Ignatii Golinchenko Metropolitan of Perm and Kungur, b. 1989
• 1 September 2020Pitirim Dondenko Bishop of Jakarta, b. 1979
• 14 October 2021Gerasim Shevtsov Archbishop of Vladikavkaz and the Alans, b. 1971
• 21 September 2022Cyril Zinkovskii Bishop of Sergiev Posad and Dmitrov, b. 1969
• 2 December 2022Khrisanf Konoplyov Bishop of Şymkent and Türkıstan, b. 1962

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata