Arsenius Heikkinen

Life

Born

14 July 1957

Monastic tonsure

1986

Ordained deacon

1986

Ordained priest

1989

Made archimandrite

1997

Consecrated bishop

1 January 2005

Made metropolitan

29 November 2018

Sees

1. 1 January 2005 – 2013

   Bishop of Joensuu

   Vicar of Karelia · Church of Finland

2. 2013 – 2015

   Bishop of Joensuu

   Vicar of Oulu · Church of Finland

3. 2015 – 29 November 2018

   Bishop of Joensuu

   Vicar of Karelia · Church of Finland

4. 29 November 2018 – present

   Metropolitan of Kuopio

   Church of Finland

Consecration

Consecrated 1 January 2005 by:

• Leo Makkonen Archbishop of Helsinki and All Finland, b. 1948
• Ambrose Jääskeläinen Metropolitan of Helsinki, b. 1945
• Panteleimon Sarho Metropolitan of Oulu, b. 1949

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 1 generation back to Leo Makkonen; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Arsenius Heikkinen Bishop of Joensuu consecrated 1 January 2005
2. Leo Makkonen Archbishop of Helsinki and All Finland, b. 1948 consecrated 25 February 1979

Bishops he consecrated 3

• 11 January 2015Elia Wallgrén Archbishop of Helsinki and All Finland, b. 1961
• 19 August 2017Feodorit Tikhonov Bishop of Venyov, b. 1980
• 16 January 2022Sergei Rajapolvi Bishop of Hamina, b. 1965

Sources

Also in: Wikidata