Melkhisedek Lebedev

Life

Born

26 January 1927

Ordained deacon

18 July 1950

Ordained priest

21 July 1950

Monastic tonsure

1963

Made archimandrite

15 June 1965

Consecrated bishop

17 June 1965

Made archbishop

9 September 1976

Retired

13 March 2002

Died

8 June 2016

Sees

1. 17 June 1965 – 7 October 1967

   Bishop of Vologda and Velikii Ustyug

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 7 October 1967 – 25 June 1970

   Bishop of Vienna and Austria

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 25 June 1970 – 9 September 1976

   Bishop of Penza and Saransk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 9 September 1976 – 10 October 1978

   Archbishop of Penza and Saransk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 10 October 1978 – 26 December 1984

   Archbishop of Berlin and Central Europe

   Exarch of Central Europe · Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 27 April 1979 – 11 October 1981

   Locum tenens of Düsseldorf

   Patriarchate of Moscow

7. 26 December 1984 (at the same time as his appointment to Sverdlovsk) – 11 April 1989

   Locum tenens of Chelyabinsk and Zlatoust

   Patriarchate of Moscow

8. 26 December 1984 – 25 September 1991

   Archbishop of Sverdlovsk and Kurgan

   Patriarchate of Moscow

9. 25 September 1991 – 23 February 1993

   Archbishop of Ekaterinburg and Kurgan

   Patriarchate of Moscow

10. 23 February 1993 – 26 February 1994

    Archbishop of Ekaterinburg and Verkhoturye

    Patriarchate of Moscow

11. 26 February 1994 – 13 March 2002

    Archbishop of Bryansk and Sevsk

    Patriarchate of Moscow

12. 13 March 2002 – 8 June 2016

    Former Archbishop of Bryansk and Sevsk

    Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 17 June 1965 by:

• Nikodim Rotov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1929–1978
• Aleksii Konoplyov Metropolitan of Kalinin and Kashin, 1910–1988
• Filaret Denysenko Patriarch of Kyiv and All Rus'-Ukraine, b. 1929
• Pitirim Nechayev Metropolitan of Volokolamsk and Yuriev, 1926–2003

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. Melkhisedek Lebedev Archbishop of Bryansk and Sevsk consecrated 17 June 1965
2. Nikodim Rotov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1929–1978 consecrated 10 July 1960
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 13

• 24 October 1965Filaret Vakhromeyev Metropolitan of Minsk and Slutsk, 1935–2021
• 6 November 1966Michael Mudyugin Archbishop of Vologda and Velikii Ustyug, 1912–2000
• 25 December 1966Hermogen Orekhov Archbishop of Krasnodar and Kuban, 1929–1980
• 3 June 1973Victorin Belyayev Archbishop of Vilnius and Lithuania, 1903–1990
• 16 November 1975Juvenal Tarasov Former Schema-Metropolitan of Kursk and Rylsk, 1929–2013
• 14 March 1976Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• 19 June 1977Isidore Kirichenko Metropolitan of Ekaterinodar and Kuban, 1941–2020
• 18 October 1978Serapheim Tikhonov Archbishop of Penza and Kuznetsy, 1935–2000
• 11 October 1981Longin Talypin Archbishop of Klin, 1946–2014
• 4 December 1988Victor Oleinik Metropolitan of Tver and Kashin, b. 1940
• 23 April 1989George Gryaznov Archbishop of Lyudinovo, 1934–2011
• 3 April 1993Michael Raskovalov Bishop of Kurgan and Shadrinsk, 1953–2008
• 4 April 1993John Popov Metropolitan of Belgorod and Staryi Oskol, b. 1960

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata