Saint Feofan Govorov

Life

Born

8 January 1815

Monastic tonsure

16 February 1841

Ordained deacon

7 April 1841

Ordained priest

7 June 1841

Made archimandrite

14 April 1856

Consecrated bishop

1 June 1859

Died

6 January 1894

Canonized

date unknown

Sees

1. 1 June 1859 – 1863

   Bishop of Tambov

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 1863 – 6 January 1894

   Bishop of Vladimir and Suzdal

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 1 June 1859 by:

• Gregory Postnikov Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg, 1784–1860

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 6 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Feofan Govorov Bishop of Vladimir and Suzdal consecrated 1 June 1859
2. Gregory Postnikov Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg, 1784–1860 consecrated 7 May 1822
3. Serapheim Glagolevskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg, Novgorod, Estlandia and Finland, 1757–1843 consecrated 25 December 1799
4. Platon Levshin Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1737–1812 consecrated 10 October 1770
5. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
6. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
7. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Sources

Also in: Wikidata