Justinian Ovchinnikov

Life

Born

28 January 1961

Monastic tonsure

24 March 1988

Ordained deacon

10 April 1988

Ordained priest

26 June 1988

Made hegumen

1992

Consecrated bishop

1 September 1995

Made archbishop

25 February 2008

Sees

1. 1 September 1995 – 6 October 1998

   Bishop of Dubăsari

   Vicar of Chișinău · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 6 October 1998 – 25 February 2008

   Bishop of Tiraspol and Dubăsari

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 25 February 2008 – 5 March 2010

   Archbishop of Tiraspol and Dubăsari

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 5 March 2010 – 25 July 2014

   Archbishop of Naro-Fominsk, Administrator of the Parishes in the USA

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 26 July 2012 – 17 July 2013

   Locum tenens of Argentina

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 25 July 2014 – present

   Archbishop of Elista and Kalmykia

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 1 September 1995 by:

• Aleksii II Ridiger Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1929–2008

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. Justinian Ovchinnikov Archbishop of Elista and Kalmykia consecrated 1 September 1995
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 16

• 15 February 1998Anatolii Aksyonov Bishop of Qostanai and Rudnyi, b. 1958
• 12 September 1998Anatolii Botnari Archbishop of Cahul and Comrat, b. 1950
• 8 November 1998Dorimedont Cecan Bishop of Edineţ and Briceni, 1961–2006
• 9 September 1999Peter Arihara Bishop of Yokohama, d. 2000
• 19 August 2003Longin Korchagin Metropolitan of Simbirsk and Novospasskoye, b. 1961
• 13 November 2005Peter Musteață Archbishop of Ungheni and Nisporeni, b. 1967
• 11 March 2007Marcel Mihăescu Archbishop of Bălţi and Făleşti, b. 1959
• 2 June 2008Ieronim Chernyshov Bishop of Oryol and Livny, b. 1966
• 21 July 2009Lazar Gurkin Bishop of Narva and Prichudye, b. 1969
• 21 March 2010Benjamin Tupeko Bishop of Borisov and Maryina Horka, b. 1968
• 10 October 2010Gennadii Gogolev Bishop of Qaskeleñ, b. 1967
• 26 December 2010Nikodim Vulpe Archbishop of Edineţ and Briceni, b. 1956
• 3 April 2011Zinovii Korzinkin Metropolitan of Saransk and Mordovia, b. 1948
• 23 October 2013Serapion Kolosnitsin Archbishop of Kökşetau and Akmola, 1964–2025
• 29 June 2014Nicholas Olkhovskii Metropolitan of New York and Eastern America, b. 1974
• 23 November 2014Flavian Mitrofanov Bishop of Cherepovets and Belozersk, b. 1975

Sources

• patriarchia.ru
• wikidata.org

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata