Elisei Fomkin

Life

Born

8 May 1963

Ordained deacon

2 August 1992

Ordained priest

9 August 1992

Monastic tonsure

19 April 1995

Elected bishop

15 March 2012

Made archimandrite

18 March 2012

Consecrated bishop

31 March 2012

Sees

1. 31 March 2012 – present

   Bishop of Uryupinsk and Novoanninskii

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 31 March 2012 by:

• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Varsonofii Sudakov Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, b. 1955
• Herman Timofeyev Metropolitan of Volgograd, b. 1937
• Sergii Chashin Metropolitan of Singapore and Southeast Asia, b. 1974
• Tikhon Zaitsev Archbishop of Ruza, b. 1967
• Savva Mikheyev Metropolitan of Vologda and Kirillov, b. 1980

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. Elisei Fomkin Bishop of Uryupinsk and Novoanninskii consecrated 31 March 2012
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 4

• 1 April 2012Nikifor Khoteyev Bishop of Otradny and Pokhvistnevo, b. 1975
• 13 December 2012Gedeon Gubka Bishop of Vyksa and Pavlovsk, b. 1962
• 6 November 2013John Kovalenko Bishop of Kalach-na-Donu and Pallasovka, b. 1970
• 3 June 2018Feoktist Igumnov Bishop of Pereslavl and Uglich, b. 1977

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata