Savva Volkov

Life

Born

27 September 1958

Ordained deacon

18 May 1986

Monastic tonsure

December 1986

Ordained priest

6 January 1987

Made archimandrite

17 March 1988

Elected bishop

16 July 1995

Consecrated bishop

12 September 1995

Made archbishop

3 February 2013

Sees

1. 12 September 1995 – 10 March 2010

   Bishop of Krasnogorsk

   Vicar of Moscow · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 10 March 2010 – 3 February 2013

   Bishop of Tiraspol and Dubăsari

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 3 February 2013 – present

   Archbishop of Tiraspol and Dubăsari

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 12 September 1995 by:

• Aleksii II Ridiger Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1929–2008
• Juvenal Poyarkov Former Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomenskoye, b. 1935
• Mefodii Nemtsov Metropolitan of Perm and Kungur, b. 1949
• Anatolii Kuznetsov Archbishop of Kerch, 1930–2024
• Valentine Mishchuk Metropolitan of Orenburg and Buzuluk, b. 1940
• Serapheim Tikhonov Archbishop of Penza and Kuznetsy, 1935–2000
• Sergii Fomin Metropolitan of Voronezh and Liski, b. 1949
• Evlogii Smirnov Metropolitan of Vladimir and Suzdal, 1937–2020
• Panteleimon Dolganov Metropolitan of Yaroslavl and Rostov, b. 1941
• Victor Oleinik Metropolitan of Tver and Kashin, b. 1940
• Anthony Cheremisov Archbishop of Oryol and Bolkhov, 1939–2026
• Arsenii Epifanov Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Zadonsk, b. 1955
• Tikhon Emelyanov Metropolitan of Vladimir and Suzdal, b. 1948
• Innocent Vasiliev Metropolitan of Vilnius and Lithuania, b. 1947
• Eugene Reshetnikov Archbishop of Vereya, b. 1957
• Aleksii Frolov Archbishop of Kostroma and Halych, 1947–2013

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. Savva Volkov Archbishop of Tiraspol and Dubăsari consecrated 12 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 36

• 10 December 1995Sergii Sokolov Bishop of Novosibirsk and Berdsk, 1951–2000
• 19 December 1995Pitirim Volochkov Archbishop of Syktyvkar and Komi-Zyryanskii, 1961–2025
• 4 February 1996Tikhon Stepanov Bishop of Arkhangelsk and Kholmogory, 1963–2010
• 31 March 1996Nikon Vasin Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Zadonsk, b. 1942
• 15 February 1998Anatolii Aksyonov Bishop of Qostanai and Rudnyi, b. 1958
• 15 March 1998Cyril Nakonechnii Metropolitan of Kazan and Tatarstan, b. 1961
• 8 September 1998Joseph Makedonov Metropolitan of Ivanovo-Voznesenskii and Vichuga, b. 1964
• 14 January 1999Alexander Ishchein Archbishop of Baku and Azerbaijan, 1952–2021
• 31 January 1999Joseph Balabanov Metropolitan of Ulan-Ude and Buryatia, b. 1954
• 10 August 1999Tikhon Nedosekin Bishop of Vidnoye, b. 1956
• 14 November 1999Daniel Nushiro Archbishop of Tokyo, Metropolitan of All Japan, 1938–2023
• 30 January 2000Evstafii Evdokimov Archbishop of Alexandrovsk and Yuriev-Polskii, b. 1951
• 6 February 2000Merkurii Ivanov Metropolitan of Rostov and Novocherkassk, b. 1964
• 10 August 2000Diomid Dzyuban Bishop of Anadyr and Chukotka, 1961–2021
• 26 November 2000Feofan Ashurkov Metropolitan of Kazan and Tatarstan, 1947–2020
• 19 May 2001Serapheim Melkonyan Metropolitan of Baltiysk and Svetlogorsk, b. 1961
• 14 August 2003Benjamin Zaritskii Metropolitan of Orenburg and Saraktash, 1953–2023
• 19 August 2003Longin Korchagin Metropolitan of Simbirsk and Novospasskoye, b. 1961
• 14 January 2004Mark Golovkov Metropolitan of Korsun and Western Europe, b. 1964
• 27 September 2004Zosima Davydov Bishop of Yakutsk and Lensk, 1963–2010
• 30 January 2005Savvatii Antonov Metropolitan of Cheboksary and Chuvash, b. 1968
• 26 March 2005Ambrose Ermakov Metropolitan of Tver and Kashin, b. 1970
• 3 April 2005Tikhon Lobkovskii Archbishop of Maikop and Adygea, b. 1968
• 2 June 2005Pankratii Zherdev Archbishop of Troitskii, b. 1955
• 24 September 2006Feofilakt Kuryanov Archbishop of Pyatigorsk and Cherkessk, b. 1974
• 2 June 2008Ieronim Chernyshov Bishop of Oryol and Livny, b. 1966
• 26 April 2009Tikhon Zaitsev Archbishop of Ruza, b. 1967
• 2 December 2009Clement Rodaikin Bishop of Krasnoslobodsk and Temnikov, b. 1971
• 21 March 2010Benjamin Tupeko Bishop of Borisov and Maryina Horka, b. 1968
• 21 August 2010Panteleimon Shatov Bishop of Vereya, b. 1950
• 22 August 2010Benjamin Likhomanov Bishop of Rybinsk and Romanov-Borisoglebsk, b. 1952
• 14 November 2010Barnabas Safonov Archbishop of Pavlodar and Ekibastuz, b. 1957
• 26 December 2010Nikodim Vulpe Archbishop of Edineţ and Briceni, b. 1956
• 8 March 2015John Moșneguțu Archbishop of Soroca and Drochia, b. 1979
• 4 November 2016Silouan Şalari Bishop of Orhei, b. 1977
• 20 November 2017Ignatii Suranov Bishop of Cherepovets and Belozersk, b. 1978

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata