Serapheim Ruzhentsev

Life

Born

25 October 1876

Ordained priest

30 November 1901

Made archimandrite

8 March 1915

Consecrated bishop

12 May 1919

Made archbishop

18 August 1922

Made metropolitan

16 October 1924

Died

3 March 1935

Sees

1. 12 May 1919 – 18 August 1922

   Bishop of Murom

   Vicar of Vladimir · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 18 August 1922 – 1923

   Archbishop of Perm and Solikamsk

   Renovationist Schism (Russia)

3. 1923 – 1924

   Archbishop of Murom

   Vicar of Vladimir · Renovationist Schism (Russia)

4. 1924

   Archbishop of Vladimir and Shuya

   Renovationist Schism (Russia)

5. 1924 – 16 October 1924

   Archbishop of Vladimir and Suzdal

   Renovationist Schism (Russia)

6. 16 October 1924 – 1927

   Metropolitan of Moscow

   Renovationist Schism (Russia)

7. 1927 – 1934

   Metropolitan of Leningrad

   Renovationist Schism (Russia)

8. 1934 – 3 March 1935

   Metropolitan of No See

   Renovationist Schism (Russia)

Consecration

Consecrated 12 May 1919 by:

• Tikhon Belavin Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1865–1925
• Anthony Khrapovitsky Metropolitan of Kyiv and Halych, 1863–1936
• Sergii Stragorodskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1867–1944

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. Serapheim Ruzhentsev Metropolitan of Leningrad consecrated 12 May 1919
2. Anthony Khrapovitsky Metropolitan of Kyiv and Halych, 1863–1936 consecrated 7 September 1897
3. Arsenii Bryantsev Archbishop of Kharkiv and Okhtyrka, 1839–1914 consecrated 17 May 1882
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

Bishops he consecrated 2

• 8 March 1925Vladimir Pishchulin Bishop of Okhta, b. 1889
• 1926Dosifei Stepanov Archbishop of Homieĺ and Rechytsa, d. 1937

Sources

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