Leontii Smirnov

Life

Born

20 May 1876

Ordained priest

19 April 1900

Monastic tonsure

4 May 1944

Consecrated bishop

6 May 1944

Made archbishop

25 February 1952

Died

28 January 1953

Sees

1. 6 May 1944 – 25 February 1952

   Bishop of Arkhangelsk and Kholmogory

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 25 February 1952 – 28 January 1953

   Archbishop of Arkhangelsk and Kholmogory

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 6 May 1944 by:

• Sergii Stragorodskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1867–1944
• Vitalii Vvedenskii Archbishop of Dmitrov, 1870–1950
• Hilarion Ilin Archbishop of Cheboksary and Chuvash, 1869–1951

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. Leontii Smirnov Archbishop of Arkhangelsk and Kholmogory consecrated 6 May 1944
2. Sergii Stragorodskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1867–1944 consecrated 25 February 1901
3. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
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

Sources

Also in: Wikidata