Matthew Samknulov

Life

Born

15 February 1971

Ordained deacon

24 July 1997

Ordained priest

30 November 1997

Monastic tonsure

28 March 1998

Elected bishop

21 October 2016

Made archimandrite

26 October 2016

Consecrated bishop

2 December 2016

Sees

1. 2 December 2016 – 11 October 2023

   Bishop of Shuya and Teikovo

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 11 October 2023 – present

   Bishop of Akhtubinsk and Yenotayevka

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 2 December 2016 by:

• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Varsonofii Sudakov Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, b. 1955
• Hilarion Alfeyev Metropolitan of Budapest and Hungary, b. 1966
• Nephon Saykali Metropolitan of Philippopolis (Chehba), cons. 1988
• Arsenii Epifanov Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Zadonsk, b. 1955
• Joseph Makedonov Metropolitan of Ivanovo-Voznesenskii and Vichuga, b. 1964
• Nikon Fomin Metropolitan of Astrakhan and Kamyzyak, b. 1963
• Eugene Reshetnikov Archbishop of Vereya, b. 1957
• Sergii Chashin Metropolitan of Singapore and Southeast Asia, b. 1974
• Gurii Shalimov Bishop of Petropavl and Bulayevo, b. 1946
• Feofilakt Moiseyev Former Bishop of Mytishchi, 1949–2023
• Ieronim Chernyshov Bishop of Oryol and Livny, b. 1966
• Tikhon Zaitsev Archbishop of Ruza, b. 1967
• Benjamin Likhomanov Bishop of Rybinsk and Romanov-Borisoglebsk, b. 1952
• Savva Mikheyev Metropolitan of Vologda and Kirillov, b. 1980
• Hilarion Kaigorodtsev Bishop of Kineshma and Palekh, b. 1971
• Anthony Sevryuk Metropolitan of Volokolamsk, b. 1984
• John Rudenko Bishop of Shuya and Teikovo, b. 1966

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. Matthew Samknulov Bishop of Akhtubinsk and Yenotayevka consecrated 2 December 2016
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

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata