Ignatii Punin

Life

Born

17 April 1973

Monastic tonsure

23 March 1998

Ordained deacon

7 April 1998

Ordained priest

7 April 1999

Made archimandrite

2 May 2005

Consecrated bishop

7 July 2005

Retired

12 March 2024

Defrocked

25 July 2024

Sees

1. 7 July 2005 – 31 March 2009

   Bishop of Vyazma

   Vicar of Smolensk and Kaliningrad · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 31 March 2009 – 12 March 2013

   Bishop of Bronnitsy

   Vicar of the Patriarch of Moscow · Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 12 March 2013 – 24 August 2023

   Bishop of Vyborg and Priozersk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 24 August 2023 – 12 March 2024

   Bishop of Minusinsk and Kuraginsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 12 March 2024 – 25 July 2024

   Former Bishop of Minusinsk and Kuraginsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 25 July 2024 – present

   Monk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 7 July 2005 by:

• Aleksii II Ridiger Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1929–2008
• Juvenal Poyarkov Former Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomenskoye, b. 1935
• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Clement Kapalin Metropolitan of Kaluga and Borovsk, b. 1949
• Feofan Galinskii Archbishop of Berlin and Germany, 1954–2017
• Victor Oleinik Metropolitan of Tver and Kashin, b. 1940
• Panteleimon Kutovoi Metropolitan of Krasnoyarsk and Achinsk, b. 1955
• Eugene Reshetnikov Archbishop of Vereya, b. 1957
• Aleksii Frolov Archbishop of Kostroma and Halych, 1947–2013
• Merkurii Ivanov Metropolitan of Rostov and Novocherkassk, b. 1964
• Feofan Ashurkov Metropolitan of Kazan and Tatarstan, 1947–2020
• Serapheim Melkonyan Metropolitan of Baltiysk and Svetlogorsk, b. 1961
• Hilarion Alfeyev Metropolitan of Budapest and Hungary, b. 1966
• 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. Ignatii Punin Bishop of Minusinsk and Kuraginsk consecrated 7 July 2005
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 17

• 26 April 2009Tikhon Zaitsev Archbishop of Ruza, b. 1967
• 21 July 2009Lazar Gurkin Bishop of Narva and Prichudye, b. 1969
• 17 April 2011Nicholas Chashin Archbishop of Salekhard and Novo-Urengoisk, b. 1972
• 21 August 2011Ignatii Deputatov Metropolitan of Saratov and Volsk, b. 1977
• 26 February 2012Amfilokhii Bondarenko Archbishop of Ust-Kamenogorsk and Semipalatinsk, b. 1969
• 4 March 2012Ambrose Munteanu Bishop of Bogorodsk, b. 1973
• 22 April 2012Barnabas Baranov Bishop of Karasuk and Ordynskoye, b. 1965
• 17 June 2012Sofronii Balandin Bishop of Kinel and Bezenchuk, b. 1973
• 2 December 2012Theodore Belkov Bishop of Pokrovsk and Novouzensk, b. 1960
• 13 June 2013Sergii Bulatnikov Bishop of Velikie Luki and Nevel, b. 1950
• 23 February 2014Victorin Kostenkov Metropolitan of Izhevsk and Udmurtia, b. 1953
• 16 March 2014Gregory Petrov Metropolitan of Voskresensk, b. 1974
• 9 July 2015Vsevolod Ponich Bishop of Urzhum and Omutninsk, b. 1961
• 15 November 2015Matthew Andreyev Bishop of Sourozh, b. 1971
• 30 April 2017Alexander Zaitsev Bishop of Plesetsk and Kargopol, b. 1969
• 19 August 2017Feodorit Tikhonov Bishop of Venyov, b. 1980
• 11 July 2019Boris Baranov Bishop of Kostomuksha and Kem, b. 1964

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

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