Iliya Bykov

Life

Born

3 April 1954

Ordained deacon

20 July 1980

Ordained priest

12 October 1980

Elected bishop

26 July 2010

Monastic tonsure

29 July 2010

Made archimandrite

30 July 2010

Consecrated bishop

1 August 2010

Sees

1. 1 August 2010 – 30 May 2011

   Bishop of Yakutsk and Lensk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 30 May 2011 – 26 December 2013

   Bishop of Ruzayevka

   Vicar of Saransk · Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 26 December 2013 – present

   Bishop of Balakhna

   Vicar of Nizhny Novgorod · Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 1 August 2010 by:

• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Varsonofii Sudakov Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, b. 1955
• Nicholas Chatzenikolaou Metropolitan of Mesogaia and Lavreotika, b. 1954
• Valentine Mishchuk Metropolitan of Orenburg and Buzuluk, b. 1940
• Barnabas Kedrov Metropolitan of Cheboksary and Chuvash, 1931–2020
• George Danilov Metropolitan of Nizhny Novgorod and Arzamas, b. 1964
• Anastasii Metkin Former Metropolitan of Simbirsk and Novospasskoye, b. 1944
• Nikon Vasyukov Metropolitan of Ufa and Bashkiria, b. 1950
• John Timofeyev Metropolitan of Yoshkar-Ola and Mari El, b. 1958
• Benjamin Zaritskii Metropolitan of Orenburg and Saraktash, 1953–2023
• Longin Korchagin Metropolitan of Simbirsk and Novospasskoye, b. 1961
• Sergii Chashin Metropolitan of Singapore and Southeast Asia, b. 1974

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. Iliya Bykov Bishop of Balakhna consecrated 1 August 2010
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 2

• 1 August 2012Pitirim Tvorogov Bishop of Dushanbe and Tajikistan, b. 1967
• 1 August 2016Eugene Kulberg Metropolitan of Ekaterinburg and Verkhoturye, b. 1972

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata