Dimitrii Eliseyev

Life

Born

1 November 1961

Ordained deacon

8 March 1998

Ordained priest

10 May 1998

Monastic tonsure

6 December 2001

Elected bishop

25 December 2014

Made archimandrite

24 January 2015

Consecrated bishop

22 February 2015

Made metropolitan

3 January 2017

Sees

1. 22 February 2015 – 27 December 2016

   Bishop of Nerchinsk and Krasnokamensk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 2016

   Locum tenens of Chita

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 27 December 2016 – 3 January 2017

   Bishop of Chita and Petrovsk-Zabaikal

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 2016

   Locum tenens of Nerchinsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 3 January 2017 – present

   Metropolitan of Chita and Petrovsk-Zabaikal

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 22 February 2015 by:

• John X Yazigi Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, b. 1955
• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Juvenal Poyarkov Former Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomenskoye, b. 1935
• Hilarion Alfeyev Metropolitan of Budapest and Hungary, b. 1966
• Nephon Saykali Metropolitan of Philippopolis (Chehba), cons. 1988
• Arsenii Epifanov Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Zadonsk, b. 1955
• Cyril Pokrovskii Metropolitan of Stavropol and Nevinnomyssk, b. 1963
• Vladimir Samokhin Metropolitan of Donetsk and Mariupol, b. 1979
• Sergii Chashin Metropolitan of Singapore and Southeast Asia, b. 1974
• Tikhon Zaitsev Archbishop of Ruza, b. 1967

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. Dimitrii Eliseyev Metropolitan of Chita and Petrovsk-Zabaikal consecrated 22 February 2015
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 2

• 3 January 2017Vincent Bryleyev Bishop of Tara and Tyukalinsk, b. 1979
• 18 June 2017Aksii Lobov Archbishop of Podilsk and Lyubertsy, b. 1980

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata