Aleksii Shpakov

Life

Born

25 January 1975

Ordained deacon

16 March 2008

Ordained priest

30 March 2008

Monastic tonsure

21 December 2008

Made hegumen

22 January 2009

Elected bishop

25 August 2012

Made archimandrite

26 August 2012

Consecrated bishop

4 September 2012

Made archbishop

17 August 2019

Made metropolitan

17 August 2022

Sees

1. 4 September 2012 – 17 August 2019

   Bishop of Voznesensk and Pervomaiskyi

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 17 August 2019 – 17 August 2022

   Archbishop of Voznesensk and Pervomaiskyi

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 17 August 2022 – present

   Metropolitan of Voznesensk and Pervomaiskyi

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 4 September 2012 by:

• Vladimir Sabodan Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, 1935–2014
• Paul Lebed Metropolitan of Vyshhorod and Chernobyl, b. 1961
• Pitirim Starinskii Metropolitan of Nikolayevsk and Ochakiv, b. 1944
• Anthony Pakanich Metropolitan of Boryspil and Brovary, b. 1967
• Alexander Drabynko Metropolitan of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi and Vishnevoye, b. 1977
• Serapheim Demyaniv Archbishop of Yahotyn, b. 1953
• Alexander Nesterchuk Archbishop of Horodnytsa, b. 1950
• Panteleimon Povoroznyuk Metropolitan of Luhansk and Alchevsk, b. 1973
• Clement Vecherya Metropolitan of Nizhyn and Pryluky, b. 1977
• Ephrem Yarinko Bishop of Berdyansk and Primorye, b. 1978
• Varsonofii Stolyar Metropolitan of Vinnytsya and Bar, b. 1972
• Damian Davydov Archbishop of Fastiv, b. 1959

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. Aleksii Shpakov Metropolitan of Voznesensk and Pervomaiskyi consecrated 4 September 2012
2. Vladimir Sabodan Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, 1935–2014 consecrated 9 July 1966
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 5

• 5 June 2017Victor Kotsaba Metropolitan of Baryshivka and Starokostyantyniv, b. 1983
• 24 December 2017Silvester Stoichev Bishop of Bilohorodka, b. 1980
• 19 December 2018Dionisii Pilipchuk Archbishop of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi, b. 1979
• 13 April 2019Ambrose Vainagii Archbishop of Zhurivka, b. 1985
• 6 June 2021Anthony Pukhkan Bishop of Korsun-Shevchenkivskyi, b. 1974

Sources

Also in: Wikidata