Vladimir Ikim

Life

Born

1 February 1940

Monastic tonsure

27 July 1965

Ordained deacon

1 August 1965

Ordained priest

4 February 1966

Made archimandrite

1 April 1979

Consecrated bishop

30 June 1985

Made archbishop

25 February 1991

Made metropolitan

25 February 2002

Retired

11 October 2023

Sees

1. 30 June 1985 – 1990

   Bishop of Podolsk

   Vicar of Moscow · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 1990 – 25 February 1991

   Bishop of Tashkent and Central Asia

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 25 February 1991 – 25 February 2002

   Archbishop of Tashkent and Central Asia

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 25 February 2002 – 11 October 2023

   Metropolitan of Tashkent and Central Asia

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 11 October 2023 – present

   Former Metropolitan of Tashkent and Central Asia

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 30 June 1985 by:

• Pimen Izvekov Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1910–1990
• Aleksii II Ridiger Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1929–2008
• Filaret Denysenko Patriarch of Kyiv and All Rus'-Ukraine, b. 1929
• Juvenal Poyarkov Former Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomenskoye, b. 1935
• Pitirim Nechayev Metropolitan of Volokolamsk and Yuriev, 1926–2003
• Mefodii Nemtsov Metropolitan of Perm and Kungur, b. 1949
• Sergii Fomin Metropolitan of Voronezh and Liski, b. 1949

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. Vladimir Ikim Metropolitan of Tashkent and Central Asia consecrated 30 June 1985
2. Pitirim Nechayev Metropolitan of Volokolamsk and Yuriev, 1926–2003 consecrated 23 May 1963
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 9

• 7 August 1988Nikandr Kovalenko Bishop of Zvenigorod, 1954–2023
• 29 July 1991Ierofei Sobolev Bishop of Balakhna, 1936–2001
• 21 April 2002Feodosii Vasnev Metropolitan of Tambov and Rasskazovo, b. 1961
• 23 March 2008Nikodim Chibisov Metropolitan of Ryazan and Mikhailovka, b. 1969
• 2 June 2008Ieronim Chernyshov Bishop of Oryol and Livny, b. 1966
• 12 July 2012Peter Mansurov Metropolitan of Orenburg and Saraktash, b. 1954
• 21 July 2012Savvatii Zagrebelnyi Bishop of Bishkek and Kyrgyzstan, b. 1967
• 22 June 2014Nikanor Anfilatov Archbishop of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk and the Kurile Islands, b. 1970
• 8 January 2019Zosima Balin Bishop of Magnitogorsk and Verkhneuralsk, b. 1975

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru