Eugene Kulberg

Life

Born

25 September 1972

Ordained deacon

15 March 2004

Ordained priest

12 July 2004

Elected bishop

15 July 2016

Monastic tonsure

16 July 2016

Made archimandrite

17 July 2016

Consecrated bishop

1 August 2016

Made metropolitan

25 December 2020

Sees

1. 1 August 2016 – 14 May 2018

   Bishop of the Central Urals

   Vicar of Ekaterinburg · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 14 May 2018 – 25 August 2020

   Bishop of Nizhny Tagil and Nevyansk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 25 August 2020 – 8 December 2020

   Bishop of Bronnitsy

   Vicar of Moscow · Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 8 December 2020 – 25 December 2020

   Bishop of Ekaterinburg and Verkhoturye

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 25 December 2020 – present

   Metropolitan of Ekaterinburg and Verkhoturye

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 1 August 2016 by:

• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Varsonofii Sudakov Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, b. 1955
• Valentine Mishchuk Metropolitan of Orenburg and Buzuluk, b. 1940
• Barnabas Kedrov Metropolitan of Cheboksary and Chuvash, 1931–2020
• Sergii Poletkin Metropolitan of Samara and Tolyattinsk, b. 1951
• Cyril Nakonechnii Metropolitan of Kazan and Tatarstan, b. 1961
• George Danilov Metropolitan of Nizhny Novgorod and Arzamas, b. 1964
• Benjamin Zaritskii Metropolitan of Orenburg and Saraktash, 1953–2023
• Longin Korchagin Metropolitan of Simbirsk and Novospasskoye, b. 1961
• Zinovii Korzinkin Metropolitan of Saransk and Mordovia, b. 1948
• Serapheim Domnin Metropolitan of Penza and Nizhny Lomov, b. 1977
• Isidore Tupikin Metropolitan of Smolensk and Dorogobuzh, b. 1974
• Dimitrii Drozdov Archbishop of Vitebsk and Orsha, b. 1953
• John Timofeyev Metropolitan of Yoshkar-Ola and Mari El, b. 1958
• Sergii Chashin Metropolitan of Singapore and Southeast Asia, b. 1974
• Lazar Gurkin Bishop of Narva and Prichudye, b. 1969
• Iliya Bykov Bishop of Balakhna, b. 1954
• Benjamin Likhomanov Bishop of Rybinsk and Romanov-Borisoglebsk, b. 1952
• Innocent Yakovlev Bishop of Alexandrovsk and Yuriev-Polskii, b. 1947
• Dionisii Porubai Metropolitan of Omsk and Priirtyshye, b. 1975
• Feodosii Gazhu Bishop of Isilkul and Russkaya Polyana, b. 1970
• Aleksii Antipov Bishop of Buzuluk and Sorochinsk, b. 1956
• Augustine Anisimov Bishop of Gorodets and Vetluga, b. 1945
• Barnabas Baranov Bishop of Karasuk and Ordynskoye, b. 1965
• Nil Sychev Bishop of Murom and Vyazniki, b. 1964
• Basil Danilov Bishop of Kotlas and Velsk, b. 1956
• Diodor Isayev Bishop of Melekess and Cherdakly, b. 1976
• Silouan Glazkin Bishop of Kalachinsk and Muromtsevo, b. 1969
• Gregory Katsigia Bishop of Tsalka, b. 1972
• Mefodii Kondratiev Bishop of Kamensk and Alapayevsk, b. 1957
• Benjamin Kirillov Bishop of Kronstadt, b. 1979
• Theodore Kazanov Metropolitan of Volgograd and Kamyshin, b. 1973

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. Eugene Kulberg Metropolitan of Ekaterinburg and Verkhoturye consecrated 1 August 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

Bishops he consecrated 4

• 1 April 2018Aleksii Orlov Metropolitan of Chelyabinsk and Miass, b. 1974
• 6 January 2019Leonid Soldatov Bishop of Argentina and South America, b. 1984
• 12 September 2019Leontii Kozlov Metropolitan of Voronezh and Liski, b. 1970
• 1 September 2020Pitirim Dondenko Bishop of Jakarta, b. 1979

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata