Clement Kapalin

Life

Born

7 August 1949

Monastic tonsure

7 December 1978

Ordained deacon

24 December 1978

Ordained priest

7 April 1979

Made hegumen

14 October 1981

Elected bishop

16 July 1982

Made archimandrite

18 July 1982

Consecrated bishop

8 August 1982

Made archbishop

19 May 1989

Made metropolitan

25 February 2004

Sees

1. 8 August 1982 – 19 May 1989

   Bishop of Serpukhov

   Vicar of Moscow · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 19 May 1989 – 20 July 1990

   Archbishop of Serpukhov

   Vicar of Moscow · Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 20 July 1990 – 25 February 2004

   Archbishop of Kaluga and Borovsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 25 February 2004 – present

   Metropolitan of Kaluga and Borovsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. October 2013 – May 2014

   Locum tenens of Pesochenskii

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 8 August 1982 by:

• Filaret Vakhromeyev Metropolitan of Minsk and Slutsk, 1935–2021
• Nikodim Rusnak Metropolitan of Kharkiv and Bohodukhiv, 1921–2011
• Herman Timofeyev Metropolitan of Volgograd, b. 1937
• Afanasii Former Archbishop of Perm and Solikamsk, 1927–2002

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 10 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Clement Kapalin Metropolitan of Kaluga and Borovsk consecrated 8 August 1982
2. Nikodim Rusnak Metropolitan of Kharkiv and Bohodukhiv, 1921–2011 consecrated 10 August 1961
3. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
4. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
5. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
6. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
7. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
8. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
9. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
10. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
11. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 34

• 21 July 1989Vladimir Cantarean Metropolitan of Chișinău and Moldova, b. 1952
• 19 August 1990Tikhon Emelyanov Metropolitan of Vladimir and Suzdal, b. 1948
• 29 July 1991Ierofei Sobolev Bishop of Balakhna, 1936–2001
• 2 September 2001Alexander Agrikov Metropolitan of Bryansk and Sevsk, b. 1953
• 14 January 2004Mark Golovkov Metropolitan of Korsun and Western Europe, b. 1964
• 27 September 2004Zosima Davydov Bishop of Yakutsk and Lensk, 1963–2010
• 30 January 2005Savvatii Antonov Metropolitan of Cheboksary and Chuvash, b. 1968
• 26 March 2005Ambrose Ermakov Metropolitan of Tver and Kashin, b. 1970
• 3 April 2005Tikhon Lobkovskii Archbishop of Maikop and Adygea, b. 1968
• 2 June 2005Pankratii Zherdev Archbishop of Troitskii, b. 1955
• 7 July 2005Ignatii Punin Bishop of Minusinsk and Kuraginsk, b. 1973
• 13 November 2005Peter Musteață Archbishop of Ungheni and Nisporeni, b. 1967
• 10 August 2006Roman Gavrilov Bishop of Serpukhov, b. 1957
• 19 August 2006Alexander Matryonin Bishop of Daugavpils and Rēzekne, b. 1973
• 20 August 2006Aristarkh Smirnov Metropolitan of Kemerovo and Prokopievsk, b. 1959
• 24 September 2006Feofilakt Kuryanov Archbishop of Pyatigorsk and Cherkessk, b. 1974
• 27 September 2006Marcel Vetrov Bishop of Tsarskoye Selo, 1952–2019
• 26 November 2006Elisei Ganaba Archbishop of the Hague and the Netherlands, b. 1962
• 15 February 2007Sergii Chashin Metropolitan of Singapore and Southeast Asia, b. 1974
• 11 March 2007Marcel Mihăescu Archbishop of Bălţi and Făleşti, b. 1959
• 23 March 2008Nikodim Chibisov Metropolitan of Ryazan and Mikhailovka, b. 1969
• 2 June 2008Ieronim Chernyshov Bishop of Oryol and Livny, b. 1966
• 22 April 2012Barnabas Baranov Bishop of Karasuk and Ordynskoye, b. 1965
• 27 May 2012Nikita Ananiev Metropolitan of Krasnoyarsk and Achinsk, b. 1969
• 28 October 2012Filaret Konkov Metropolitan of Ufa and Bashkiria, b. 1963
• 23 October 2013Serapion Kolosnitsin Archbishop of Kökşetau and Akmola, 1964–2025
• 9 September 2014Nektarii Seleznyov Bishop of Livny and Maloarkhangelsk, b. 1974
• 24 October 2015Tikhon Shevkunov Metropolitan of Simferopol and the Crimea, b. 1958
• 4 December 2015Serapheim Savostyanov Bishop of Biisk and Belokurikha, b. 1971
• 18 November 2017Theophan Danchenkov Bishop of Volzhsk and Sernur, b. 1975
• 20 November 2017Ignatii Suranov Bishop of Cherepovets and Belozersk, b. 1978
• 3 June 2018Feoktist Igumnov Bishop of Pereslavl and Uglich, b. 1977
• 18 July 2019Siluan Nikitin Bishop of Petergof, b. 1986
• 19 August 2020Joseph Korolyov Bishop of Mozhaisk, b. 1977

Sources

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