Stephen Linitskii

Life

Born

19 July 1934

Monastic tonsure

11 December 1981

Ordained deacon

9 January 1982

Ordained priest

9 May 1983

Consecrated bishop

17 December 1996

Made metropolitan

2000

Sees

1. 17 December 1996 – 2000

   Bishop of Saint Petersburg and Staraya Russa

   Russian True Orthodox Church

2. 2000 – 2004

   Metropolitan of Moscow

   Apostolic Orthodox Church

3. 2004 – 2014

   Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Mozhaisk

   Orthodox Church of Russia (True Orthodox Church (Rafail))

4. 2014 – present

   Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Mozhaisk

   Cossack Local Church

Consecration

Consecrated 17 December 1996 by:

• Mefodii Kudryakov Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, 1949–2015
• John Modzalevskii Archbishop of Uman, b. 1970

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 13 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Stephen Linitskii Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Mozhaisk consecrated 17 December 1996
2. John Modzalevskii Archbishop of Uman, b. 1970 consecrated 17 June 1996
3. Roman Blashchuk/Balashchuk Metropolitan of Vinnytsya and Bratslav, b. 1953 consecrated 22 May 1990
4. John Bodnarchuk Metropolitan of Lutsk and Volyn, 1929–1994 consecrated 23 October 1977
5. Nicholas Yurik Metropolitan of Lviv and Ternopil, 1910–1984 consecrated 31 October 1965
6. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
7. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
8. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
9. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
10. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
11. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
12. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
13. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
14. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 10

• 1996Raphael Prokopiev-Motovilov Archbishop of Moscow, Metropolitan of All Russia, b. 1947
• 30 March 1997Moses Khodzhava Bishop of Gaenati and Imeretia, cons. 1997
• 22 November 1998Vyacheslav Lisovoi Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1966–2011
• 7 January 2000Kiriak Temertsidi/Timirtsidi Metropolitan of the Southern Russian Autonomous Metropolitical Region, b. 1942
• 16 January 2000Benedict Patriarch of the Great City of Moscow, All Orthodox Christians and Primate of the New Lands, b. 1975
• 16 January 2000Benedict Molchanov Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, b. 1975
• 7 May 2000Vitalii Kuzhevatov Metropolitan of Moscow and All Russia, b. 1966
• 7 January 2002Andrew Tregub Metropolitan of Kyiv, cons. 2002
• 14 January 2002Sergii Zhuravlyov Archbishop of the Reformed Orthodox Church of Christ the Savior, b. 1969
• date unknownRostislav Melnikov Bishop of Volga