Manuel Lemeshevskii

Life

Born

13 April 1884

Monastic tonsure

2 June 1911

Ordained deacon

10 December 1911

Ordained priest

16 September 1912

Made archimandrite

21 September 1923

Consecrated bishop

23 September 1923

Made archbishop

21 April 1946

Made metropolitan

25 February 1962

Retired

25 November 1965

Died

12 August 1968

Sees

1. 23 September 1923 – 25 April 1928

   Bishop of Luga

   Vicar of Petrograd · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 25 April 1928 – October 1929

   Bishop of Serpukhov

   Vicar of Moscow · Patriarchate of Moscow

3. October 1929 – 14 February 1945

   Bishop of Serpukhov and Kashira

   Vicar of Moscow · Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 14 February 1945 – July 1945

   Bishop of Chkalov

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. July 1945 – 21 April 1946

   Bishop of Chkalov and Buzuluk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 21 April 1946 – 7 February 1956

   Archbishop of Chkalov and Buzuluk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

7. 1955

   Locum tenens of Cheboksary and Chuvash

   Patriarchate of Moscow

8. 7 February 1956 – 22 March 1960

   Archbishop of Cheboksary and Chuvash

   Patriarchate of Moscow

9. 22 March 1960 – 25 February 1962

   Archbishop of Kuibyshev and Syzran

   Patriarchate of Moscow

10. 25 February 1962 – 25 November 1965

    Metropolitan of Kuibyshev and Syzran

    Patriarchate of Moscow

11. 25 November 1965 – 12 August 1968

    Former Metropolitan of Kuibyshev and Syzran

    Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 23 September 1923 by:

• Tikhon Belavin Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1865–1925

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. Manuel Lemeshevskii Metropolitan of Kuibyshev and Syzran consecrated 23 September 1923
2. Tikhon Belavin Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1865–1925 consecrated 19 October 1897
3. Palladii Rayev-Pisarev Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1827–1898 consecrated 18 December 1866
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 4

• 30 March 1947Palladii Kaminskii Archbishop of Zhytomyr and Ovruch, 1896–1978
• 25 February 1948Andrew Sukhenko Former Archbishop of Omsk and Tyumen, 1900–1973
• 3 April 1960Nicholas Feodosiev Bishop of Cheboksary and Chuvash, 1893–1972
• 12 December 1965John Snychyov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Ladoga, 1927–1995

Sources

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