Varlaam Pikalov

Life

Born

15 December 1885

Monastic tonsure

1910

Ordained deacon

14 April 1910

Ordained priest

12 March 1911

Made archimandrite

1916

Consecrated bishop

9 May 1921

Made archbishop

8 March 1936

Died

2 August 1946

Sees

1. 9 May 1921 – February 1922

   Bishop of Novosilsk

   Vicar of Tula · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. February 1922 – 11 March 1925

   Bishop of Yefremov

   Vicar of Tula · Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 11 March 1925 – 4 November 1926

   Bishop of Kashira

   Vicar of Tula · Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 4 November 1926 – 1934

   Former Bishop of Kashira

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 1934 – 8 March 1936

   Bishop of Rybinsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 8 March 1936 – 7 September 1943

   Archbishop of Rybinsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

7. 7 September 1943 – 2 August 1946

   Archbishop of Sverdlovsk and Chelyabinsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 9 May 1921 by:

• Juvenal Maslovskii Archbishop of Ryazan and Shatsk, 1878–1937
• Vitalii Vvedenskii Archbishop of Dmitrov, 1870–1950
• Melkhisedek Nikolin/Nikolev Bishop, 1870–1944
• Ignatii Sadkovskii Bishop of Skopin, 1887–1938

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 8 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Varlaam Pikalov Archbishop of Sverdlovsk and Chelyabinsk consecrated 9 May 1921
2. Juvenal Maslovskii Archbishop of Ryazan and Shatsk, 1878–1937 consecrated 24 August 1914
3. Vladimir Bogoyavlenskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1848–1918 consecrated 13 June 1888
4. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
5. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
6. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
7. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
8. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
9. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 1

• 18 March 1923Peter Sokolov Archbishop of Voronezh, 1863–1937

Sources

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