Gregory Postnikov

Life

Born

1 November 1784

Monastic tonsure

25 August 1814

Ordained deacon

27 August 1814

Ordained priest

28 August 1814

Made archimandrite

29 July 1817

Consecrated bishop

7 May 1822

Made archbishop

3 March 1828

Made metropolitan

26 August 1856

Died

17 June 1860

Sees

1. 7 May 1822 – 1826

   Bishop of Revel

   Vicar of Saint Petersburg · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 1826 – 3 March 1828

   Bishop of Kaluga and Borovsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 3 March 1828 – 1829

   Archbishop of Ryazan and Zaraisk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 1829 – 1848

   Archbishop of Tver and Kashin

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 1848 – 26 August 1856

   Archbishop of Kazan and Sviyazhsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 26 August 1856 – 1856

   Metropolitan of Kazan and Sviyazhsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

7. 1856 – 17 June 1860

   Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 7 May 1822 by:

• Serapheim Glagolevskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg, Novgorod, Estlandia and Finland, 1757–1843

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 5 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Gregory Postnikov Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg consecrated 7 May 1822
2. Serapheim Glagolevskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg, Novgorod, Estlandia and Finland, 1757–1843 consecrated 25 December 1799
3. Platon Levshin Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1737–1812 consecrated 10 October 1770
4. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
5. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
6. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 6

• 28 February 1828Ignatii Semyonov Archbishop of Voronezh, 1791–1850
• 20 January 1835Vladimir Alyavdin Archbishop of Tobolsk and Siberia, 1791–1845
• 27 October 1857Ignatii Bryanchaninov Bishop of the Caucasus and the Black Sea, 1807–1867
• 17 November 1857Alexander Pavlovich Former Bishop of Poltava, 1799–1874
• 1 June 1859Feofan Govorov Bishop of Vladimir and Suzdal, 1815–1894
• 13 September 1859Nektarii Nadezhdin Archbishop of Kharkiv and Okhtyrka, 1819–1874

Sources

• wikidata.org

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