Benjamin

Metropolitan Benjamin (Likhomanov) (, secular name Nikolai Ivanovich Likhomanov, ; born 2 October 1952), is a Metropolitan of the Russian Orthodox Church. He is a bishop in Volgograd Oblast and holds the title of "Bishop of Rybinsk and Danilovsky".

Early life Likhomanov was born in 1973 to a religious family in the Soviet city of Sokol. At a young age he and his family moved to the city of Marhanets in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, in what is modern day Ukraine.

Academic career Likhomanov graduated from the high school in the city of Marganets in 1969. He then attended the MSU Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics department of the Moscow State University, where he graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering in 1975.

As part of his religious training, Likhomanov graduated in 1985 from the Moscow Theological Seminary, and in 1999 from the Moscow Theological Academy, with a degree in the correspondence education sector.

From 9 October 1979 until his appointment as a bishop, Likhomanov served as the minister of the church served as the rector of the Resurrection Cathedral in the city of Tutaev and the dean of churches in the Tutayevsky District.

Following his 1999 graduation from the Moscow Theological Academy he served as the rector of the Yaroslavl Theological School, a position that he would hold until 2003.

On 20 August 2010, at the Transfiguration Cathedral of the Solovetsky Monastery, Archimandrite Benjamin was officially named as the bishop of Rybinsk, vicar of the Yaroslavl diocese.

On 22 August 2010, on the feast day of the Cathedral of the Solovetsky Saints, Archimandrite Benjamin was ordained bishop during the Divine Liturgy at the Transfiguration Cathedral of the Solovetsky Monastery. Episcopal ordination carried out: Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill, the Metropolitan of Chișinău and All Moldova Vladimir (Cantarean), Metropolitan of Saransk and Mordovia Varsonofy Sudakov, Metropolitan of Volokolamsk Hilarion (Alfeyev), Archbishop of Rostov and Novocherkassk , Archbishop of Sergiev Posad , Archbishop of Yaroslavl and Rostov , Bishop of Tiraspol and Dubăsari Sabbas (Volkov), Bishop of Arkhangelsk and Kholmogorsky Tikhon (Stepanov), Bishop of Kagul and Comrat Anatolie (Botnari), Bishop of Hâncu Peter (Musteață), Bishop of Solnechnogorsk Sergius (Chashin), Bishop of Balti and Falesti Marchel (Mihăescu), Bishop of Podolsky Tikhon (Zaitsev), Bishop of Orekhovo-Zuevsky Panteleimon (Shatov).

On 15 March 2012, the Rybinsk See became vacant, and Bishop Benjamin was appointed its ruling bishop with the title "Bishop of Rybinsk and Uglich".

On 26 July 2012, after Benjamin requested it, he was approved as abbot archimandrite of the Resurrection Monastery in Uglich by the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church.

On 24 December 2015, in connection with the formation of the Pereslavl diocese, to which Uglich went, the title was changed to "Rybinsk and Danilovsky".

By the decision of the Holy Synod on 16 April 2016, Bishop Benjamin was approved as the abbot archimandrite of the Uspensky Adrianov Monastery in the village of Adrianova Sloboda, Yaroslavl Region.