Sergii Poletkin

Life

Born

14 April 1951

Ordained deacon

26 April 1981

Ordained priest

24 July 1982

Monastic tonsure

23 December 1984

Made archimandrite

24 December 1984

Consecrated bishop

5 May 1989

Made archbishop

25 February 1998

Made metropolitan

18 March 2012

Retired

24 July 2025

Sees

1. 5 May 1989 – 1993

   Bishop of Azov

   Vicar of Rostov · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 1993 – 25 February 1998

   Bishop of Samara and Syzran

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 25 February 1998 – 18 March 2012

   Archbishop of Samara and Syzran

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 18 March 2012 – 2017

   Metropolitan of Samara

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 2012

   Locum tenens of Kinelsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 2017 – 24 July 2025

   Metropolitan of Samara and Tolyattinsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

7. 24 July 2025 – present

   Former Metropolitan of Samara and Tolyattinsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 5 May 1989 by:

• Pimen Izvekov Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1910–1990
• Juvenal Poyarkov Former Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomenskoye, b. 1935
• Vladimir Sabodan Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, 1935–2014
• Pitirim Nechayev Metropolitan of Volokolamsk and Yuriev, 1926–2003
• Aleksii Kutepov Metropolitan of Tula and Yefremov, b. 1953
• Valentine Mishchuk Metropolitan of Orenburg and Buzuluk, b. 1940
• Gregory Chirkov Archbishop of Mozhaisk, 1942–2018

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. Sergii Poletkin Metropolitan of Samara and Tolyattinsk consecrated 5 May 1989
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 14

• 21 July 1989Vladimir Cantarean Metropolitan of Chișinău and Moldova, b. 1952
• 27 September 1989Alexander Mogilyov Metropolitan of Astana and Kazakhstan, b. 1957
• 23 January 2011Tikhon Dorovskikh Metropolitan of Oryol and Bolkhov, b. 1959
• 22 May 2011Serapheim Glushakov Bishop of Anadyr and Chukotka, 1969–2020
• 11 September 2011Cornelius Sinyayev Metropolitan of Arkhangelsk and Kholmogory, b. 1976
• 17 December 2011Tarasii Vladimirov Bishop of Balashov and Rtishchevo, b. 1974
• 18 March 2012Sergii Ivannikov Metropolitan of Barnaul and Altai, b. 1957
• 1 April 2012Nikifor Khoteyev Bishop of Otradny and Pokhvistnevo, b. 1975
• 17 June 2012Sofronii Balandin Bishop of Kinel and Bezenchuk, b. 1973
• 1 August 2012Pitirim Tvorogov Bishop of Dushanbe and Tajikistan, b. 1967
• 6 December 2015Thomas Mosolov Archbishop of Odintsovo and Krasnogorsk, b. 1978
• 1 August 2016Eugene Kulberg Metropolitan of Ekaterinburg and Verkhoturye, b. 1972
• 18 July 2019Siluan Nikitin Bishop of Petergof, b. 1986
• 12 September 2019Leontii Kozlov Metropolitan of Voronezh and Liski, b. 1970

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata