Gleb Smirnov

Life

Born

23 August 1913

Ordained deacon

22 September 1953

Ordained priest

11 November 1957

Monastic tonsure

4 May 1976

Made archimandrite

5 May 1976

Consecrated bishop

9 May 1976

Made archbishop

9 September 1978

Died

25 July 1987

Sees

1. 9 May 1976 – 9 September 1978

   Bishop of Oryol and Bryansk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 9 September 1978 – 25 July 1987

   Archbishop of Oryol and Bryansk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 9 May 1976 by:

• Pimen Izvekov Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1910–1990
• Meliton Hatzis Senior Metropolitan of Chalcedon, 1913–1989
• Nikodim Rotov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1929–1978
• Filaret Denysenko Patriarch of Kyiv and All Rus'-Ukraine, b. 1929
• Serapheim Nikitin Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomna, 1905–1979
• John Vendland Metropolitan of Yaroslavl, 1909–1989
• Sergii Petrov Metropolitan of Odessa and Kherson, 1924–1990
• Pitirim Nechayev Metropolitan of Volokolamsk and Yuriev, 1926–2003
• Simon Novikov Metropolitan of Ryazan and Kasimov, 1928–2006

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 10 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Gleb Smirnov Archbishop of Oryol and Bryansk consecrated 9 May 1976
2. John Vendland Metropolitan of Yaroslavl, 1909–1989 consecrated 28 December 1958
3. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
4. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
5. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
6. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
7. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
8. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
9. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
10. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
11. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 3

• 30 November 1976Barnabas Kedrov Metropolitan of Cheboksary and Chuvash, 1931–2020
• 18 October 1978Serapheim Tikhonov Archbishop of Penza and Kuznetsy, 1935–2000
• 27 April 1980Mefodii Nemtsov Metropolitan of Perm and Kungur, b. 1949

Sources

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