Aleksii van der Mensbrugghe

Life

Born

9 July 1899

Ordained deacon

1924

Ordained priest

1925

Monastic tonsure

14 April 1929

Made archimandrite

24 November 1946

Consecrated bishop

1 November 1960

Made archbishop

5 April 1970

Retired

4 April 1979

Died

26 May 1980

Sees

1. 1 November 1960 – 30 July 1968

   Bishop of Meudon

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 30 July 1968 – 5 April 1970

   Bishop of Philadelphia (USA)

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 5 April 1970 – 1 December 1970

   Archbishop of Philadelphia

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 1970

   Locum tenens of Russian Orthodox Parishes in Mexico

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 1 December 1970 – 24 February 1971

   Archbishop of Northern Germany

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 24 February 1971 – 4 April 1979

   Archbishop of Düsseldorf

   Patriarchate of Moscow

7. 4 April 1979 – 26 May 1980

   Former Archbishop of Düsseldorf

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 1 November 1960 by:

• Nicholas Yarushevich Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomna, 1892–1961
• Basil Krivoshein Archbishop of Brussels and Belgium, 1900–1985
• Anthony Bloom Metropolitan of Sourozh, 1914–2003
• Nikodim Rotov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1929–1978
• Nicholas Eryomin Metropolitan of Korsun, 1892–1985

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 9 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Aleksii van der Mensbrugghe Former Archbishop of Düsseldorf consecrated 1 November 1960
2. Nicholas Yarushevich Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomna, 1892–1961 consecrated 7 April 1922
3. Benjamin Kazanskii Metropolitan of Petrograd and Gdov, 1873–1922 consecrated 24 January 1910
4. Vladimir Bogoyavlenskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1848–1918 consecrated 13 June 1888
5. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
6. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
7. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
8. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
9. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
10. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 1

• 2 February 1969Mark Shavykin Bishop of Ladoga, 1910–1989

Sources

• wikidata.org

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