Joseph Balabanov

Life

Born

31 January 1954

Monastic tonsure

5 March 1979

Ordained deacon

9 March 1979

Ordained priest

23 April 1981

Made archimandrite

22 November 1987

Elected bishop

28 December 1998

Consecrated bishop

31 January 1999

Made archbishop

3 February 2013

Made metropolitan

24 May 2015

Sees

1. 31 January 1999 – 7 October 2002

   Bishop of Uglich

   Vicar of Yaroslavl · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 7 October 2002 – 3 February 2013

   Bishop of Birobidzhan and Kuldur

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 3 February 2013 – 5 May 2015

   Archbishop of Birobidzhan and Kuldur

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 5 May 2015 – 24 May 2015

   Archbishop of Kurgan and Belozersk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 24 May 2015 – 30 August 2019

   Metropolitan of Kurgan and Belozersk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 30 August 2019 – 25 August 2020

   Metropolitan of Simbirsk and Novospasskoye

   Patriarchate of Moscow

7. 25 August 2020 – present

   Metropolitan of Ulan-Ude and Buryatia

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 31 January 1999 by:

• Juvenal Poyarkov Former Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomenskoye, b. 1935
• Pitirim Nechayev Metropolitan of Volokolamsk and Yuriev, 1926–2003
• Sergii Fomin Metropolitan of Voronezh and Liski, b. 1949
• Herman Timofeyev Metropolitan of Volgograd, b. 1937
• Gregory Chirkov Archbishop of Mozhaisk, 1942–2018
• Mikhei Kharkharov Archbishop of Yaroslavl and Rostov, 1921–2005
• Tikhon Emelyanov Metropolitan of Vladimir and Suzdal, b. 1948
• Aleksii Frolov Archbishop of Kostroma and Halych, 1947–2013
• Savva Volkov Archbishop of Tiraspol and Dubăsari, b. 1958
• Aleksii II Ridiger Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1929–2008

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. Joseph Balabanov Metropolitan of Ulan-Ude and Buryatia consecrated 31 January 1999
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 5

• 10 August 1999Tikhon Nedosekin Bishop of Vidnoye, b. 1956
• 10 August 2006Roman Gavrilov Bishop of Serpukhov, b. 1957
• 25 November 2012Filaret Gavrin Bishop of Chistopol and Nizhnekamsk, b. 1973
• 8 June 2014Vladimir Mikheikin Archbishop of Petropavl and Bulayevo, b. 1968
• 11 July 2015Vladimir Mashtanov Bishop of Shadrinsk and Dalmatovo, b. 1965

Sources

• patriarchia.ru
• wikidata.org

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata