Gerasim Shevtsov

Life

Born

8 September 1971

Monastic tonsure

17 April 1997

Ordained deacon

19 December 1997

Ordained priest

18 June 2000

Made archimandrite

16 September 2012

Elected bishop

24 September 2021

Consecrated bishop

14 October 2021

Made archbishop

13 November 2022

Sees

1. 14 October 2021 – 13 November 2022

   Bishop of Vladikavkaz and the Alans

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 13 November 2022 – present

   Archbishop of Vladikavkaz and the Alans

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 14 October 2021 by:

• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Dionisii Porubai Metropolitan of Omsk and Priirtyshye, b. 1975
• Leonid Gorbachev Archbishop of Vladikavkaz and the Alans, b. 1968
• Paramon Golubka Bishop of Gorodets and Vetluga, b. 1977
• Thomas Mosolov Archbishop of Odintsovo and Krasnogorsk, b. 1978
• Thomas Demchuk Bishop of Pokrovsk and Novouzensk, b. 1983
• Savva Tutunov Archbishop of Zelenograd, b. 1978

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. Gerasim Shevtsov Archbishop of Vladikavkaz and the Alans consecrated 14 October 2021
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

• 27 November 2022Peter Pruteanu Bishop of Kaffa, b. 1979

Sources

Also in: Wikidata