Irinei Susemihl

Life

Born

10 July 1919

Ordained deacon

6 December 1942

Ordained priest

5 October 1947

Monastic tonsure

23 January 1966

Made archimandrite

29 January 1966

Consecrated bishop

30 January 1966

Made archbishop

9 September 1972

Made metropolitan

9 September 1986

Died

26 July 1999

Sees

1. 30 January 1966 – 24 February 1971

   Bishop of West Germany

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 24 February 1971 – 9 September 1972

   Bishop of Baden and Bavaria

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 9 September 1972 – 13 March 1975

   Archbishop of Baden and Bavaria

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 13 March 1975 – 9 September 1986

   Archbishop of Vienna and Austria

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 9 September 1986 – 26 July 1999

   Metropolitan of Vienna and Austria

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 30 January 1966 by:

• Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970
• Pimen Izvekov Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1910–1990
• Anthony Bloom Metropolitan of Sourozh, 1914–2003
• Aleksii II Ridiger Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1929–2008
• Cyprian Zyornov Archbishop of Berlin and Central Europe, 1911–1987
• Anthony Melnikov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1924–1986
• Filaret Vakhromeyev Metropolitan of Minsk and Slutsk, 1935–2021
• Pitirim Nechayev Metropolitan of Volokolamsk and Yuriev, 1926–2003
• John Snychyov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Ladoga, 1927–1995
• Juvenal Poyarkov Former Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomenskoye, b. 1935

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 9 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Irinei Susemihl Metropolitan of Vienna and Austria consecrated 30 January 1966
2. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
3. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
4. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
5. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
6. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
7. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
8. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
9. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
10. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Sources

Also in: Wikidata