Lazar Gurkin

Life

Born

13 March 1969

Monastic tonsure

27 March 1991

Ordained deacon

30 March 1991

Ordained priest

4 April 1991

Made archimandrite

4 March 2007

Elected bishop

27 May 2009

Consecrated bishop

21 July 2009

Sees

1. 21 July 2009 – 30 May 2011

   Bishop of Narva

   Vicar of Tallinn · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 30 May 2011 – present

   Bishop of Narva and Prichudye

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 19 April 2018 – 29 May 2018

   Locum tenens of Tallinn and All Estonia

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 21 July 2009 by:

• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Juvenal Poyarkov Former Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomenskoye, b. 1935
• Cornelius Jakobs Metropolitan of Tallinn and All Estonia, 1924–2018
• Varsonofii Sudakov Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, b. 1955
• Hilarion Alfeyev Metropolitan of Budapest and Hungary, b. 1966
• Prokl Khazov Metropolitan of Simbirsk and Melekess, 1943–2014
• Arsenii Epifanov Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Zadonsk, b. 1955
• Justinian Ovchinnikov Archbishop of Elista and Kalmykia, b. 1961
• Feognost Guzikov Metropolitan of Kashira, b. 1960
• Arkadii Afonin Former Bishop of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk and the Kurile Islands, 1943–2021
• Serapheim Zaliznitskii Metropolitan of Ivano-Frankivsk and Kolomyya, b. 1953
• Merkurii Ivanov Metropolitan of Rostov and Novocherkassk, b. 1964
• Benjamin Zaritskii Metropolitan of Orenburg and Saraktash, 1953–2023
• Mark Golovkov Metropolitan of Korsun and Western Europe, b. 1964
• Ambrose Ermakov Metropolitan of Tver and Kashin, b. 1970
• Ignatii Punin Bishop of Minusinsk and Kuraginsk, b. 1973
• Alexander Matryonin Bishop of Daugavpils and Rēzekne, b. 1973
• Elisei Ganaba Archbishop of the Hague and the Netherlands, b. 1962
• Sergii Chashin Metropolitan of Singapore and Southeast Asia, b. 1974
• Tikhon Zaitsev Archbishop of Ruza, b. 1967

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. Lazar Gurkin Bishop of Narva and Prichudye consecrated 21 July 2009
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 10

• 2 December 2009Clement Rodaikin Bishop of Krasnoslobodsk and Temnikov, b. 1971
• 14 November 2010Barnabas Safonov Archbishop of Pavlodar and Ekibastuz, b. 1957
• 1 August 2012Pitirim Tvorogov Bishop of Dushanbe and Tajikistan, b. 1967
• 27 January 2013Varlaam Ponomaryov Archbishop of Makhachkala and Derbent, b. 1974
• 19 August 2014Paisii Yurkov Bishop of Zheleznogorsk and Lgov, b. 1970
• 27 March 2016John Sichyovskii Bishop of Jelgava, b. 1978
• 1 August 2016Eugene Kulberg Metropolitan of Ekaterinburg and Verkhoturye, b. 1972
• 27 November 2016Nicholas Degtyaryov Bishop of Chernyakovsk and Slavsk, b. 1963
• 5 February 2017Sergii Telikh Bishop of Maardu, b. 1966
• 3 June 2018Feoktist Igumnov Bishop of Pereslavl and Uglich, b. 1977

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata