Platon Levshin

Life

Born

10 July 1737

Monastic tonsure

August 1758

Ordained priest

July 1759

Made archimandrite

16 July 1766

Consecrated bishop

10 October 1770

Made archbishop

10 October 1770

Made metropolitan

29 June 1787

Retired

13 June 1811

Died

11 November 1812

Sees

1. 10 October 1770 – 1775

   Archbishop of Tver and Kashin

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 1775 – 29 June 1787

   Archbishop of Moscow and Kaluga

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 29 June 1787 – 1799

   Metropolitan of Moscow and Kaluga

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 1799 – 13 June 1811

   Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 13 June 1811 – 11 November 1812

   Former Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 10 October 1770 by:

• Gabriel Kremenetskii Metropolitan of Kyiv and Halych, 1708–1783
• Gregory Metropolitan of Hungro-Wallachia
• Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801
• Innocent Nechayev Archbishop of Pskov and Riga, 1722–1799

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 3 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Platon Levshin Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna consecrated 10 October 1770
2. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
3. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
4. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 2

• 12 April 1795Ioannikii Polonskii Archbishop of Bratslav and Podilsk, 1742–1819
• 25 December 1799Serapheim Glagolevskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg, Novgorod, Estlandia and Finland, 1757–1843

Sources

Also in: Wikidata