Mark Arndt

Life

Born

29 January 1941

Monastic tonsure

1975

Ordained deacon

1975

Ordained priest

1975

Consecrated bishop

30 November 1980

Made archbishop

1990

Made metropolitan

10 December 2019

Sees

1. 30 November 1980 – 1982

   Bishop of Munich and Southern Germany

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 1982 – 1985

   Bishop of Berlin and Germany

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 1985 – 1990

   Bishop of Berlin, Germany, and Great Britain

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 1990 – 2016

   Archbishop of Berlin, Germany, and Great Britain

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 2016 – 10 December 2019

   Archbishop of Berlin and Germany

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 10 December 2019 – present

   Metropolitan of Berlin and Germany

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 30 November 1980 by:

• Filaret Voznesenskii Metropolitan of Eastern America and New York, 1903–1985
• Vitalii Ustinov Metropolitan of New York and Eastern America, 1910–2006
• Anthony Medvedev Archbishop of San Francisco and Western America, 1908–2000
• Laurus Shkurla Metropolitan of Eastern America and New York, 1928–2008
• Paul Pavlov Archbishop of Sydney, Australia and New Zealand, 1927–1995
• Gregory Grabbe Bishop of Washington and Florida, 1902–1995

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. Mark Arndt Metropolitan of Berlin and Germany consecrated 30 November 1980
2. Laurus Shkurla Metropolitan of Eastern America and New York, 1928–2008 consecrated 13 August 1967
3. Averky Taushev Archbishop of Syracuse and Holy Trinity, 1906–1976 consecrated 25 May 1953
4. Vitalii Maksimenko Archbishop of Eastern America and Jersey City, 1873–1960 consecrated 6 May 1934
5. Anthony Khrapovitsky Metropolitan of Kyiv and Halych, 1863–1936 consecrated 7 September 1897
6. Arsenii Bryantsev Archbishop of Kharkiv and Okhtyrka, 1839–1914 consecrated 17 May 1882
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 11

• 29 April 1982Barnabas Prokofiev Bishop of Cannes, 1945–2017
• 10 December 1984Hilarion Kapral Metropolitan of New York and Eastern America, 1948–2022
• 10 February 1991Valentine Rusantsov Metropolitan of Suzdal and Vladimir, 1939–2012
• 19 September 1993Serapheim Dulgoff Archbishop of Brussels and Western Europe, 1923–2003
• 26 September 1993Ambrose Cantacuzène Former Bishop of Geneva and Western Europe, 1947–2009
• 1 May 2001Agapit Gorachek Archbishop of Stuttgart, 1955–2020
• 7 September 2008Feodosii Ivashchenko Bishop of Manhattan, b. 1964
• 22 May 2012Mstislav Dyachina Bishop of Tikhvin and Lodeinoye Pole, b. 1967
• 29 June 2014Nicholas Olkhovskii Metropolitan of New York and Eastern America, b. 1974
• 20 January 2019Alexander Bishop of Vevey, b. 1956
• 10 December 2021Job Bandmann Bishop of Stuttgart, b. 1982

Sources

Also in: Wikidata