Benjamin Kirillov

Life

Born

17 September 1979

Monastic tonsure

6 April 1999

Ordained deacon

17 April 1999

Ordained priest

9 July 1999

Elected bishop

5 October 2011

Made archimandrite

7 October 2011

Consecrated bishop

14 October 2011

Sees

1. 14 October 2011 – 24 August 2023

   Bishop of Ardatov and Atyashevo

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 24 August 2023 – present

   Bishop of Kronstadt

   Vicar of Saint Petersburg · Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 14 October 2011 by:

• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Varsonofii Sudakov Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, b. 1955
• Panteleimon Kutovoi Metropolitan of Krasnoyarsk and Achinsk, b. 1955
• Merkurii Ivanov Metropolitan of Rostov and Novocherkassk, b. 1964
• Innocent Vasiliev Metropolitan of Vilnius and Lithuania, b. 1947
• Serapheim Melkonyan Metropolitan of Baltiysk and Svetlogorsk, b. 1961
• Sergii Chashin Metropolitan of Singapore and Southeast Asia, b. 1974
• John Pavlikhin Archbishop of Magadan and Sinegorsk, 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. Benjamin Kirillov Bishop of Kronstadt consecrated 14 October 2011
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 5

• 16 October 2011Lukian Kutsenko Archbishop of Blagoveshchensk and Tynda, b. 1965
• 25 December 2011Stephen Gordeyev Bishop of Kanash and Belaya Volozhka, b. 1966
• 22 April 2012Barnabas Baranov Bishop of Karasuk and Ordynskoye, b. 1965
• 2 December 2012Theodore Belkov Bishop of Pokrovsk and Novouzensk, b. 1960
• 1 August 2016Eugene Kulberg Metropolitan of Ekaterinburg and Verkhoturye, b. 1972

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata