Basil Kulakov

Life

Born

18 October 1971

Monastic tonsure

4 April 1997

Ordained deacon

23 April 1997

Ordained priest

23 August 1997

Elected bishop

9 July 2019

Made archimandrite

16 July 2019

Consecrated bishop

24 July 2019

Made metropolitan

3 January 2024

Sees

1. 24 July 2019 – 25 August 2020

   Bishop of Nikolayevka

   Vicar of Khabarovsk · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 25 August 2020 – 27 December 2023

   Bishop of Armavir and Labinsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 27 December 2023 – 3 January 2024

   Bishop of Ekaterinodar and Kuban

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 27 December 2023 – 21 July 2024

   Locum tenens of Armavir and Labinsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 3 January 2024 – present

   Metropolitan of Ekaterinodar and Kuban

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 24 July 2019 by:

• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Savva Mikheyev Metropolitan of Vologda and Kirillov, b. 1980
• Aleksii Kutepov Metropolitan of Tula and Yefremov, b. 1953
• Sergii Chashin Metropolitan of Singapore and Southeast Asia, b. 1974
• Artemii Snigur Metropolitan of Khabarovsk and Priamurskii, b. 1962
• Vladimir Samokhin Metropolitan of Donetsk and Mariupol, b. 1979
• Feofan Kim Archbishop of Korea, b. 1976
• Ephrem Prosyanok Archbishop of Birobidzhan and Kuldur, b. 1977
• Matthew Kopylov Metropolitan of Pskov and Porkhov, b. 1979
• Ipatii Golubev Archbishop of Satpaev, b. 1966
• Dionisii Porubai Metropolitan of Omsk and Priirtyshye, b. 1975
• Aristarkh Yatsurin Bishop of Vanino and Pereyaslav, b. 1965
• Nicholas Ashimov Bishop of Amur and Chegdomyn, b. 1980
• Philip Novikov Metropolitan of Syktyvkar and Komi-Zyryanskii, b. 1973
• Feodosii Chashchin Metropolitan of Samara and Novokuibyshevsk, b. 1973
• Thomas Mosolov Archbishop of Odintsovo and Krasnogorsk, b. 1978
• Paul Grigoriev Metropolitan of Vladivostok and Primorye, b. 1974

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. Basil Kulakov Metropolitan of Ekaterinodar and Kuban consecrated 24 July 2019
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