Nikon Vasin

Life

Born

1 January 1942

Ordained deacon

9 September 1976

Ordained priest

10 September 1976

Monastic tonsure

21 March 1980

Made archimandrite

1990

Consecrated bishop

31 March 1996

Made archbishop

1 February 2011

Made metropolitan

23 June 2013

Retired

9 July 2019

Sees

1. 31 March 1996 – 26 December 2003

   Bishop of Zadonsk

   Vicar of Voronezh · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 26 December 2003 – 1 February 2011

   Bishop of Lipetsk and Yelets

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 1 February 2011 – 29 May 2013

   Archbishop of Lipetsk and Yelets

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 29 May 2013 – 23 June 2013

   Archbishop of Lipetsk and Zadonsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 23 June 2013 – 9 July 2019

   Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Zadonsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 9 July 2019 – present

   Former Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Zadonsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 31 March 1996 by:

• Aleksii II Ridiger Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1929–2008
• 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
• Job Tyvonyuk Metropolitan of Chelyabinsk and Zlatoust, 1938–2020
• Sergii Fomin Metropolitan of Voronezh and Liski, b. 1949
• Arsenii Epifanov Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Zadonsk, b. 1955
• Tikhon Emelyanov Metropolitan of Vladimir and Suzdal, b. 1948
• Nikon Mironov Bishop of Kudymkar and Vereshchagino, b. 1960
• Aleksii Frolov Archbishop of Kostroma and Halych, 1947–2013
• Savva Volkov Archbishop of Tiraspol and Dubăsari, b. 1958

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. Nikon Vasin Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Zadonsk consecrated 31 March 1996
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 2

• 18 September 2011Andrew Tarasov Bishop of Rossosh and Ostrogozhsk, b. 1975
• 25 December 2016Evfimii Maksimenko Bishop of Usman, b. 1975

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata