Aristarkh Smirnov

Life

Born

17 January 1959

Monastic tonsure

27 March 1998

Ordained deacon

7 April 1998

Ordained priest

19 July 1998

Elected bishop

17 July 2006

Made archimandrite

21 July 2006

Consecrated bishop

20 August 2006

Made metropolitan

1 August 2012

Sees

1. 20 August 2006 – 26 July 2012

   Bishop of Kemerovo and Novokuznetsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 26 July 2012 – 1 August 2012

   Bishop of Kemerovo and Prokopievsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 1 August 2012 – present

   Metropolitan of Kemerovo and Prokopievsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 20 August 2006 by:

• Aleksii II Ridiger Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1929–2008
• Juvenal Poyarkov Former Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomenskoye, b. 1935
• Clement Kapalin Metropolitan of Kaluga and Borovsk, b. 1949
• Alexander Kudrjašovs Metropolitan of Riga and All Latvia, b. 1939
• Arsenii Epifanov Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Zadonsk, b. 1955
• Filaret Karagodin Archbishop of Penza and Kuznetsy, b. 1946
• Dimitrii Kapalin Metropolitan of Tobolsk and Tyumen, b. 1952
• Evlogii Smirnov Metropolitan of Vladimir and Suzdal, 1937–2020
• Sofronii Budko Archbishop of Kemerovo and Novokuznetsk, 1930–2008
• Rostislav Devyatov Metropolitan of Tomsk and Asino, b. 1963
• Eugene Reshetnikov Archbishop of Vereya, b. 1957
• Cyril Nakonechnii Metropolitan of Kazan and Tatarstan, b. 1961
• George Danilov Metropolitan of Nizhny Novgorod and Arzamas, b. 1964
• Nephon Saykali Metropolitan of Philippopolis (Chehba), cons. 1988
• Alexander Agrikov Metropolitan of Bryansk and Sevsk, b. 1953
• Feognost Guzikov Metropolitan of Kashira, b. 1960
• Ambrose Ermakov Metropolitan of Tver and Kashin, b. 1970
• Roman Gavrilov Bishop of Serpukhov, b. 1957
• Alexander Matryonin Bishop of Daugavpils and Rēzekne, 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. Aristarkh Smirnov Metropolitan of Kemerovo and Prokopievsk consecrated 20 August 2006
2. Alexander Agrikov Metropolitan of Bryansk and Sevsk, b. 1953 consecrated 2 September 2001
3. Herman Swaiko Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada, 1931–2022 consecrated 10 February 1973
4. Silvester Haruns Archbishop of Montréal and Canada, 1914–2000 consecrated 27 April 1952
5. Vladimir Tikhonitskii Metropolitan of Białystok, 1873–1959 consecrated 3 June 1907
6. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
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 6

• 23 March 2008Nikodim Chibisov Metropolitan of Ryazan and Mikhailovka, b. 1969
• 5 September 2010Nestor Sirotenko Metropolitan of Stupino, b. 1974
• 8 April 2012Augustine Anisimov Bishop of Gorodets and Vetluga, b. 1945
• 1 August 2012Pitirim Tvorogov Bishop of Dushanbe and Tajikistan, b. 1967
• 21 August 2012Innocent Vetrov Bishop of Mariinsk and Yurginsk, b. 1973
• 1 September 2014Vladimir Agibalov Bishop of Novokuznetsk and Tashtagol, b. 1966

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata