Innocent Zelnitskii

Life

Born

7 May 1886

Ordained deacon

1914

Ordained priest

1916

Monastic tonsure

3 January 1949

Made archimandrite

3 January 1949

Consecrated bishop

30 January 1949

Made archbishop

25 February 1957

Died

10 March 1968

Sees

1. 30 January 1949 – 21 December 1951

   Bishop of Vinnytsya and Bratslav

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 21 December 1951 – 25 February 1957

   Bishop of Kursk and Belgorod

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 25 February 1957 – 9 December 1958

   Archbishop of Kursk and Belgorod

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 9 December 1958 – 16 March 1961

   Archbishop of Rostov and Novocherkassk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 16 March 1961 – 16 November 1962

   Archbishop of Arkhangelsk and Kholmogory

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 16 November 1962 – 10 March 1968

   Archbishop of Tambov and Michurinsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 30 January 1949 by:

• Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970
• Vitalii Vvedenskii Archbishop of Dmitrov, 1870–1950
• Nestor Sidoruk Bishop of Kursk and Belgorod, 1904–1951
• Iakov Zaika Former Bishop of Chernihiv and Nizhyn, 1900–1983

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. Innocent Zelnitskii Archbishop of Tambov and Michurinsk consecrated 30 January 1949
2. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
3. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
4. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
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

Sources

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