Nikon Mironov

Life

Born

26 May 1960

Ordained deacon

24 April 1983

Monastic tonsure

19 December 1984

Ordained priest

6 January 1985

Made archimandrite

20 June 1989

Consecrated bishop

21 July 1993

Retired

13 April 2021

Sees

1. 21 July 1993 – 26 February 1994

   Bishop of Zadonsk

   Vicar of Voronezh · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 26 February 1994 – 18 July 1999

   Bishop of Ekaterinburg and Verkhoturye

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 18 July 1999 – 29 May 2013

   Former Bishop of Ekaterinburg and Verkhoturye

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 29 May 2013 – 19 March 2014

   Bishop of Dobryanka

   Vicar of Perm · Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 19 March 2014 – 13 April 2021

   Bishop of Kudymkar and Vereshchagino

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 13 April 2021 – present

   Former Bishop of Kudymkar and Vereshchagino

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 21 July 1993 by:

• Aleksii II Ridiger Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1929–2008
• Vladimir Sabodan Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, 1935–2014
• Juvenal Poyarkov Former Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomenskoye, b. 1935
• Mefodii Nemtsov Metropolitan of Perm and Kungur, b. 1949
• Sergii Fomin Metropolitan of Voronezh and Liski, b. 1949
• Paisii Samchuk Archbishop of Oryol and Livny, 1930–2008
• Victor Oleinik Metropolitan of Tver and Kashin, b. 1940
• Arsenii Epifanov Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Zadonsk, b. 1955
• Victor Pyankov Bishop of Podilsk, b. 1944
• Dimitrii Kapalin Metropolitan of Tobolsk and Tyumen, b. 1952
• Arkadii Afonin Former Bishop of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk and the Kurile Islands, 1943–2021
• Paul Ponomaryov Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomna, b. 1952
• Gurii Shalimov Bishop of Petropavl and Bulayevo, b. 1946

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. Nikon Mironov Bishop of Kudymkar and Vereshchagino consecrated 21 July 1993
2. Aleksii II Ridiger Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1929–2008 consecrated 3 September 1961
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 3

• 31 March 1996Nikon Vasin Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Zadonsk, b. 1942
• 4 March 2012Ambrose Munteanu Bishop of Bogorodsk, b. 1973
• 22 April 2012Barnabas Baranov Bishop of Karasuk and Ordynskoye, b. 1965

Sources

Also in: Wikidata