Orthodox Hierarchs

Patriarchate of Moscow

Ambrose Podobedov

Амвросий

Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg · 1742–1818

Born Andrei Ivanvovich Podobedov (Андрей Иванович Подобедов)

Life

Born
20 November 1742
Monastic tonsure
12 February 1768
Consecrated bishop
5 June 1778
Made archbishop
27 March 1785
Made metropolitan
10 March 1801
Died
21 May 1818

Sees

  1. 5 June 1778 – 1781

    Bishop of Sevsk

    Patriarchate of Moscow

  2. 1781 – 27 March 1785

    Bishop of Krutitsy

    Patriarchate of Moscow

  3. 27 March 1785 – 1799

    Archbishop of Kazan and Simbirsk

    Patriarchate of Moscow

  4. 1799 – 10 March 1801

    Archbishop of Saint Petersburg, Estlandia and Finland

    Patriarchate of Moscow

  5. 10 March 1801 – 21 May 1818

    Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg

    Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 5 June 1778 by:

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. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg consecrated 5 June 1778
  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 3

Sources

Also in: Wikidata

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