As Priest On 2 July 2000, Theodore was ordained a deacon by Archbishop Mikhey, and on 16 July 2000 he was ordained a presbyter. From 2000 until his appointment as bishop he served in various parishes and monasteries of the Yaroslavl diocese. The next day on 25 December in the
Church of All Saints of the Patriarchal and Synodal residences in the Danilov Monastery, of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga elevated him to the rank of
Archimandrite. On 26 December 2015, in the Throne Hall of the
Cathedral of Christ the Savior in
Moscow, archimandrite Theodore was officially nominated to be the next Bishop of Pereslavl and Uglich. On 27 December 2015, in the
Church of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Yasenevo, the consecration where Theodore became Bishop of Pereslavl and Uglich took place, performed by
Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, Metropolitan of Yaroslavl and Rostov, Metropolitan
Cyril (Nakonechny) of Yekaterinburg and Verkhoturye, Bishop of Dmitrov, Bishop
Benjamin (Likhomanov) of Rybinsk and Danilov, and Bishop of Voskresensk. On 28 December 2018, by the decision of the Holy Synod, Theodore was appointed bishop of
Volgograd and
Kamyshin and head of the Volgograd Metropolis. As a result on 3 January 2019, Patriarch Kirill elevated Theadore to the rank of
Metropolitan in a ceremony at the Patriarchal Assumption Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin. On 26 February 2019 Theodore was included in the Public Chamber of the
Volgograd Region after the early termination of powers of one of the members, Bishop of Gorodishchensky and vicar of the Volgograd Diocese Andrei Igumnov. Theodore was both praised and criticized for his response to the
2020 coronavirus, implementing many safety precautions that were recommended but not following these restrictions himself and not cancelling Easter services. ==References==