Simon Novikov

Life

Born

5 February 1928

Monastic tonsure

28 December 1958

Ordained deacon

18 January 1959

Ordained priest

12 April 1959

Made archimandrite

2 January 1964

Consecrated bishop

14 October 1972

Made archbishop

7 September 1978

Made metropolitan

25 February 2000

Retired

7 May 2003

Died

1 September 2006

Sees

1. 14 October 1972 – 7 September 1978

   Bishop of Ryazan and Kasimov

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 7 September 1978 – 25 February 2000

   Archbishop of Ryazan and Kasimov

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 25 February 2000 – 7 May 2003

   Metropolitan of Ryazan and Kasimov

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 7 May 2003 – 1 September 2006

   Former Metropolitan of Ryazan and Kasimov

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 14 October 1972 by:

• Aleksii II Ridiger Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1929–2008
• Aleksii Konoplyov Metropolitan of Kalinin and Kashin, 1910–1988
• Filaret Vakhromeyev Metropolitan of Minsk and Slutsk, 1935–2021
• Bartholomew Gondarovskii Archbishop of Oryol and Bryansk, 1927–1988
• Pimen Khmelevskii Archbishop of Saratov and Volsk, 1923–1993
• Anatolii Kuznetsov Archbishop of Kerch, 1930–2024

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 10 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Simon Novikov Metropolitan of Ryazan and Kasimov consecrated 14 October 1972
2. Aleksii Konoplyov Metropolitan of Kalinin and Kashin, 1910–1988 consecrated 21 July 1956
3. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
4. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
5. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
6. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
7. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
8. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
9. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
10. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
11. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 7

• 18 October 1972Damaskin Bodryi Bishop of Mukachevo and Uzhhorod, 1937–1989
• 9 May 1976Gleb Smirnov Archbishop of Oryol and Bryansk, 1913–1987
• 30 November 1976Barnabas Kedrov Metropolitan of Cheboksary and Chuvash, 1931–2020
• 18 October 1977Ambrose Shchurov Former Archbishop of Ivanovo-Voznesensk and Kineshma, 1930–2016
• 27 April 1980Mefodii Nemtsov Metropolitan of Perm and Kungur, b. 1949
• 11 November 1990Evlogii Smirnov Metropolitan of Vladimir and Suzdal, 1937–2020
• 8 September 1998Joseph Makedonov Metropolitan of Ivanovo-Voznesenskii and Vichuga, b. 1964

Sources

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