Meletii Zaborovskii

Life

Born

19 July 1868

Ordained priest

8 October 1889

Monastic tonsure

1898

Made archimandrite

1904

Consecrated bishop

21 November 1908

Made archbishop

1930

Made metropolitan

1939

Died

6 April 1946

Sees

1. 21 November 1908 – 23 February 1912

   Bishop of Barnaul

   Vicar of Tomsk · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 23 February 1912 – 26 January 1916

   Bishop of Yakutsk and Vilyuisk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 26 January 1916 – 1930

   Bishop of Zabaikal and Nerchinsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 1930 – 1 April 1931

   Archbishop of Zabaikal and Nerchinsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 1 April 1931 – 1939

   Archbishop of Harbin and Manchuria

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 1939 – 6 April 1946

   Metropolitan of Harbin and Manchuria

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 21 November 1908 by:

• Makarii Nevskii Metropolitan of Altai, 1835–1926
• Evfimii Schastnev Bishop of Yeniseisk and Krasnoyarsk, 1839–1913
• Innocent Sokolov Archbishop of Biisk and Altaiskoye, 1846–1937

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 1 generation back to Makarii Nevskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Meletii Zaborovskii Metropolitan of Harbin and Manchuria consecrated 21 November 1908
2. Makarii Nevskii Metropolitan of Altai, 1835–1926 consecrated 24 February 1884

Bishops he consecrated 5

• 20 November 1916Ephrem Kuznetsov Bishop of Selenginsk, 1876–1918
• September 1922Jonah Pokrovskii Bishop of Hankou, 1888–1925
• 3 June 1934Dimitrii Voznesenskii Archbishop of Hailar, 1871–1947
• 16 February 1935Juvenal Kilin Archbishop of Izhevsk and Udmurtia, 1875–1958
• 6 April 1941Nicholas Yamazaki/Ono Bishop of Tokyo and Japan, 1872–1956

Sources

Also in: Wikidata