Sofronii Balandin

Life

Born

12 June 1973

Ordained deacon

1992

Ordained priest

1993

Monastic tonsure

26 March 1994

Made archimandrite

June 2012

Elected bishop

7 June 2012

Consecrated bishop

17 June 2012

Sees

1. 17 June 2012 – present

   Bishop of Kinel and Bezenchuk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 17 June 2012 by:

• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Varsonofii Sudakov Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, b. 1955
• Sergii Poletkin Metropolitan of Samara and Tolyattinsk, b. 1951
• Ignatii Punin Bishop of Minusinsk and Kuraginsk, b. 1973
• Sergii Chashin Metropolitan of Singapore and Southeast Asia, b. 1974
• Nikodim Chibisov Metropolitan of Ryazan and Mikhailovka, b. 1969
• Innocent Erokhin Bishop of Balakovo and Nikolayevskii, b. 1967

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. Sofronii Balandin Bishop of Kinel and Bezenchuk consecrated 17 June 2012
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 3

• 3 November 2013Tikhon Bobov Bishop of Ishim and Aromashevo, b. 1954
• 6 December 2015Thomas Mosolov Archbishop of Odintsovo and Krasnogorsk, b. 1978
• 12 September 2019Leontii Kozlov Metropolitan of Voronezh and Liski, b. 1970

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata