Pankratii Zherdev

Life

Born

21 July 1955

Monastic tonsure

3 July 1987

Ordained deacon

18 July 1987

Ordained priest

8 June 1988

Made archimandrite

4 May 1990

Consecrated bishop

2 June 2005

Made archbishop

11 July 2026

Sees

1. 2 June 2005 – 11 July 2026

   Bishop of Troitskii

   Vicar of the Patriarch of Moscow · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 11 July 2026 – present

   Archbishop of Troitskii

   Vicar of the Patriarch of Moscow · Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 2 June 2005 by:

• Aleksii II Ridiger Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1929–2008
• Filaret Vakhromeyev Metropolitan of Minsk and Slutsk, 1935–2021
• Juvenal Poyarkov Former Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomenskoye, b. 1935
• Clement Kapalin Metropolitan of Kaluga and Borovsk, b. 1949
• Arsenii Epifanov Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Zadonsk, b. 1955
• Evlogii Smirnov Metropolitan of Vladimir and Suzdal, 1937–2020
• Eugene Reshetnikov Archbishop of Vereya, b. 1957
• Aleksii Frolov Archbishop of Kostroma and Halych, 1947–2013
• Mark Tuzhikov Metropolitan of Vyatka and Sloboda, b. 1961
• Savva Volkov Archbishop of Tiraspol and Dubăsari, b. 1958
• Alexander Agrikov Metropolitan of Bryansk and Sevsk, b. 1953
• Feognost Guzikov Metropolitan of Kashira, b. 1960
• George Danilov Metropolitan of Nizhny Novgorod and Arzamas, b. 1964
• Benjamin Zaritskii Metropolitan of Orenburg and Saraktash, 1953–2023
• Mark Golovkov Metropolitan of Korsun and Western Europe, b. 1964

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. Pankratii Zherdev Archbishop of Troitskii consecrated 2 June 2005
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 7

• 11 July 2011Savva Mikheyev Metropolitan of Vologda and Kirillov, b. 1980
• 11 July 2012Mefodii Zaitsev Bishop of Almetievsk and Bugulma, b. 1978
• 11 July 2013Ignatii Tarasov Bishop of Kostomuksha and Kem, b. 1976
• 11 July 2014Simon Morozov Bishop of Atkarsk, b. 1975
• 11 July 2015Vladimir Mashtanov Bishop of Shadrinsk and Dalmatovo, b. 1965
• 15 February 2017Aleksii Eliseyev Bishop of Halych and Makariv, b. 1969
• 11 July 2019Boris Baranov Bishop of Kostomuksha and Kem, b. 1964

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata