Nicholas Ashimov

Life

Born

3 December 1980

Monastic tonsure

24 April 2005

Ordained deacon

25 April 2005

Ordained priest

28 April 2005

Elected bishop

27 December 2011

Made archimandrite

29 December 2011

Consecrated bishop

29 January 2012

Sees

1. 29 January 2012 – present

   Bishop of Amur and Chegdomyn

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 29 January 2012 by:

• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Varsonofii Sudakov Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, b. 1955
• Ignatii Pologrudov Metropolitan of Argentina and South America, b. 1956
• Irinarkh Grezin Bishop of Ramenskoye, 1951–2024
• Sergii Chashin Metropolitan of Singapore and Southeast Asia, b. 1974
• Aristarkh Yatsurin Bishop of Vanino and Pereyaslav, b. 1965
• Ephrem Prosyanok Archbishop of Birobidzhan and Kuldur, b. 1977

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. Nicholas Ashimov Bishop of Amur and Chegdomyn consecrated 29 January 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

• 22 May 2012Mstislav Dyachina Bishop of Tikhvin and Lodeinoye Pole, b. 1967
• 25 November 2012Filaret Gavrin Bishop of Chistopol and Nizhnekamsk, b. 1973
• 30 October 2016Savvatii Perepelkin Bishop of Vanino and Pereyaslav, b. 1968
• 24 July 2019Basil Kulakov Metropolitan of Ekaterinodar and Kuban, b. 1971

Sources

• ru.wikipedia.org
• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata